ServiceNow appoints Uber CTO as a member of its board of directors

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), Leading workflow companies make work better for people, today announced the appointment of Uber Chief Technology Officer Sukumar Rathnam as a member of the board of directors, bringing the total number of directors on the ServiceNow board of directors to 12.

“Sukumar has always been at the forefront of digital innovation for some of the world’s largest brands. He is widely regarded as a dynamic technology expert and goal-driven leader,” said ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott. “As Sukumar joins ServiceNow’s board of directors, we are confident in our journey to become the defining enterprise software company of the 21st century.”

As Uber’s chief technology officer, Sukumar is responsible for the company’s global engineering organization. Before joining Uber, Sukumar worked at Amazon for 9 years, where he was responsible for product management, software engineering, machine learning, and selection and catalog system business operations. These systems manage the world’s largest e-commerce catalog of products and offers, providing information on billions of products with more than 10 million requests per second. Before joining Amazon, Sukumar held software engineering and architecture leadership positions at Microsoft, PeopleSoft, and Oracle.

Sukumar Rathnam, Chief Technology Officer of Uber, said: “Companies are facing the urgent need for digital development to increase the resilience of their businesses and reshape their industries.” “ServiceNow’s vision and unremitting innovation inspire me, and I’m proud to join. The board of directors, because ServiceNow enables isolated systems to work together to create a more efficient and effective way to get things done.”

Sukumar has a PhD. From the University of Texas at Austin, where he won the John A. Howard Best Doctoral Award from the American Marketing Association. Published papers in North America. He also holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology.

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