Paddy Srinivasan

DigitalOcean is a leading AI Inference cloud simplifying cloud and AI infrastructure for AI and Digital natives We are transforming DigitalOcean into an AI-centric cloud platform optimized for inference and agentic workloads, focused on delivering the best price-performance infrastructure for builders. Strategic priorities include: • Building the Agentic Inference Cloud for developers • Scaling high-performance GPU infrastructure for AI workloads • Expanding the DigitalOcean developer ecosystem • Enabling hybrid use of open-source and proprietary AI models • Accelerating growth of digital-native businesses worldwide

Responsible for all products, technology, common services, operations, IT and strategy for GoTo (formerly known as LogMeIn).

Responsible for the Data & Machine Learning platform that powers Alexa. Platform capabilities include collection, curation and structuring of data to power Alexa’s AI capabilities like Conversational AI, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding, Text to Speech etc.

SVP Products & GM for LogMeIn's Customer Engagement Cloud products responsible for the new product innovation, product management, engineering, strategy and overall P&L. As a member of the company’s executive team reporting to the CEO helped scale the company from $120M to over $1.3B in revenue in 6 years. Established an AI-Centric product strategy by launching 3 new AI/Machine learning based products and drove the acquisition of Nanorep – a conversational AI company based in Israel. Direct operational accountabilities in the current role include defining and driving innovation, product strategy, engineering, product management, product marketing, strategic partnerships, revenue and customer success for an organization of over 400. Pioneered several SaaS metrics and data-driven instrumentation frameworks to help manage a diverse portfolio of over 50,000 customers across various segments including MSPs, Telecos, top eCommerce websites and large enterprises.

Incubated and scaled the “Xively” IOT platform business which was acquired by Google. Build Xively– an IOT Connectivity platform from the ground up. Established several strategic partnerships with hardware vendors like ARM, Texas Instruments, Microchip etc., software companies like Salesforce, Dassault and several other channel vendors. Won several industry awards for the best IOT connectivity platform including the best IOT Platform award at the Mobile World Congress-2015. As a VP/GM of this business, responsible for the product, R&D, marketing, sales and customer success. Xively scaled from a small team of <10 people to a worldwide presence of over 150

Founded and led the Product function of Opstera which was acquired by Avanade (a Microsoft-Accenture company) in late 2012. Opstera was the #1 provider of Cloud Monitoring & Managed Services in the Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem. Acquired over 500 customers included the top 34 of the 50 Windows Azure cloud customers & 20% of all active Azure customers including Skype, Xbox, Viddy, Pottermore, Nokia and 3M. Enterprise customers included Ford, Entergy, GE, Unicef, McDonalds , ISVs like Invensys, Bing, National Instruments. Opstera was a 2 time winner of the Microsoft "Global Cloud Partner of the Year" award (in 2010 and 2011) and numerous other awards including CRN's top 10 cloud vendor, SI Top 25 and “Top50 SaaS” provider.

Moved to Asia (New Delhi & Beijing) to jumpstart Oracle's R&D "in Asia for Asia". Started Oracle’s R&D center in India, incubated and launched a mobile embedded database product with OEM partnership with Nokia/Symbian. As a part of this intrapreneurial role, responsible for identifying market opportunities, product formulation, strategic partnerships and engineering delivery. Built the team from scratch spread over 4 locations in 3 countries. Developed mobile embedded database for feature phones in emerging markets along with an SDK using J2ME and Python to enable mobile app development on the database. The product reached tremendous scale in just a few months and served as the foundation for many other in-market innovations.

Started at Microsoft in the engineering ranks and grew to run Product & Program Management for SharePoint Services. Worked in Windows, .Net and Office teams and averaged a promotion every 18 months. * Director of Product & Program Management, Office Server team. Incubated and shipped v1.0 of “Duet”, a Microsoft Office -SAP joint product from conceptualization to launch. * Product reached an annual license run rate of over $55M in 2 years. Product started as an internal demo as a part of executive briefing. * Group Program Manager for Windows Server and Tools team driving .NET Remoting- distributed computing platform. Wrote product specifications, worked with engineering to deliver the platform. Spent several months with key customers including Siemens & Xerox to map real world challenges and ensure successful adoption. * Presented at several Microsoft developer conferences including PDC, TechEd and SAP Sapphire * Part of the technology team that delivered core Windows print system drivers for Windows server NT/2000 * Inducted into the “bench” program for fast tracking cross functional growth