Archana Vemulapalli

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Archana Vemulapalli, Director

Archana Vemulapalli has served as an independent member of our Board of Directors since July 2024. She currently serves as corporate vice president of Global Commercial Sales and leads Global System Integrator/System Integrator alliances at AMD. Prior to joining AMD, she held management roles at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she served as head of Product and Global Strategy for data and AI and as general manager and head of Solutions Architecture for North America. Prior to AWS, Vemulapalli was the general manager and global chief technology officer for IBM’s Infrastructure Services business with direct oversight of its global portfolio strategy, software product development and offerings portfolio. In her role, she transformed product strategy, investments and management to drive infrastructure services growth globally. Prior to IBM, she served as chief technology officer for the District of Columbia where she held a key cabinet position overseeing the central technology agency. Ms. Vemulapalli serves on the Trustees Council of Penn Women and is a member of the James Brister Society at the University of Pennsylvania and the board of advisors for the Global Good Fund. She has a master’s degree in leadership from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in telecommunications from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Madras. Ms. Vemulapalli was selected to serve on the Board based on her more than 23 years of technology expertise and vast experience helping global companies build teams, develop organizational structures and create value with AI and data services to transform their business.