Krish Mantripragada, SVP, Information & Analytics Solutions, First Data

Krish Mantripragada is Senior Vice President of Information and Analytics Solutions at First Data. In this role, he is responsible for driving the next era of Big-Data and data-driven solutions powering multi-channel commerce and customer engagement for Merchants, Retailers, Financial Institutions and third party institutions. Krish joined First Data in January 2013.

Krish has spent almost two decades building software solutions to optimize supply chains, enable cross channel commerce, connect physical and digital worlds, and manage multi-enterprise collaboration, at multiple pioneering and leading companies. Prior to joining First Data, Krish was Group Vice President at SAP, a $20B global leader in Enterprise Software and Software related services with locations in more than 130 countries. In this role, Krish was responsible for Advanced Business Analytics applications in Sales, Supply Chain, Consumer Marketing and other areas leveraging the power of Big Data, Social and Cloud technologies. Prior to that role, he was the VP & GM responsible worldwide strategy, definition and delivery of end-to-end Supply Chain Management products at SAP, which is ranked #1 in the industry. Before his tenure at SAP, Krish held several leadership positions at i2 Technologies, Agile Software and United Technologies Research. He has more than 18 years of experience in enterprise software, analytics and cloud applications and has built several multi-million dollar product businesses over his career.

Dr. Mantripragada holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with minor in Management Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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