Gopinath Sankaran is the Vice President Strategic Ecosystems at Informatica with a single-minded focus on helping customers and cloud ecosystem partners realize value with Informatica’s industry leading AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud. Passionate about partnerships, GTM and solution architecture with AI and Cloud ecosystems and inspiring teams to drive customer delight by solving critical business problems, Gopi has been instrumental in Informatica’s solution and GTM strategy with ecosystems like AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake and MongoDB. Prior to informatica, Gopi had a key leadership role in Microsoft’s Partner organization that built a transformational partner ecosystem which drove a world class partner experience with Data, AI, Analytics and Business Applications partners. Gopi was also the Head of Global Alliances at MySQL Inc played a key role in industrializing GTM offerings that took the company to a $1B acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Gopi earned a MBA from University of Washington and a MS in Computer Science from Emory University, Atlanta.