Madhu Kochar

Madhu Kochar is the Vice President of Analytics Product Development in Hybrid Cloud division in South Africa. She leads a large portfolio of products in the Unified Governance and Integration segment and the new offering IBM Cloud Private for Data. 

Over the last few years, Madhu distinguished herself by successfully establishing a world-class service delivery and engineering team that transformed IBM analytics business on the IBM cloud. She has extensive experience in software development, devOps and in leading strategic technology areas in the information and data management field. 

In 2012, Madhu was named one of the outstanding executive women from Silicon Valley and a recipient of the prestigious Tribute to Women (TWIN) award, a recognition of her role as a women executive and an inspiration for other women in technology fields. 

Madhu Kochar  has also represented IBM in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) summit panels and is on the IBM corporate Asian Council. She also leads the local IBM Women Charter whose goal is to grow the next generation of leaders. Madhu is based in San Jose, California.