John “JG” Chirapurath is President of DataPelago, a data processing acceleration company. He also serves on the Advisory Council for the University of Chicago Booth School’s Center for Applied AI. Prior to DataPelago, JG was Executive Vice President at SAP responsible for Data Analytics, AI and other product initiatives, and before that served as SAP’s Chief Marketing & Solutions Officer. JG held senior roles across Fortune 50 companies: Vice President at Microsoft responsible for Azure’s worldwide commercial strategy, marketing and GTM, Chief Strategy & Product Officer at ProQuest, and Vice President & General Manager at Hewlett Packard. He also co-founded Sarvega leading it to acquisition by Intel; and now a case study at Harvard Business School. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.