Shripad (Shri) Sonavnay Kulkarni has been appointed as Program Director at IBM. With over 7 years of experience at IBM spanning product mana

Shripad (Shri) Sonavnay Kulkarni has been appointed as Program Director at IBM. With over 7 years of experience at IBM spanning product management, go-to-market strategy, sales leadership, and client advisory, Shripad assumes this leadership role after serving as Principal Product Manager, WW GTM | Db2 & Informix. In his new position, he will lead strategic initiatives for IBM’s Netezza and OEM Databases portfolio.

Prior to this appointment, he held several leadership positions within IBM, including Product Leader, WW GTM | Db2 & Informix; Product Manager, WW GTM | Db2 Software & SaaS and Informix; Product Manager, Worldwide GTM | Data & AI; Sales Lead; Sales Specialist; and Client Advisory roles. Through these positions, he built extensive expertise in product strategy, database technologies, business growth, customer engagement, and global go-to-market execution.

His appointment reflects IBM’s continued focus on strengthening its data and AI portfolio while accelerating innovation and growth across its database and enterprise technology ecosystem.