Prateek Kathpal

President

Prateek is president of SymphonyAI’s industrial division and executive chairman of SymphonyAI’s enterprise IT division. With over 20 years of technology leadership and extensive experience in the enterprise, telecom, and automotive industries, Prateek brings a unique background in machine learning and AI, product strategy, operations, product technology, engineering, and sales to SymphonyAI. Prateek has extensive experience with highly engineered systems and expertise in B2B and consumer technology, deep learning, cloud virtualization, enterprise software, mobile applications, and information life cycle management. Before joining SymphonyAI, Prateek served as EVP and CTO at Cerence, where he was responsible for Cerence’s technology vision, R&D, and professional services, and rolling out Cerence technology and solutions to more than 65 automotive customers across the world and more than 450 million cars on the road. Before Cerence, Prateek served as general manager of AI and IoT products at View, responsible for leading product strategy, defining and driving product roadmap, and supporting M&A activity to accelerate growth. Before View, he served as VP of product and solution management at Polycom, chief strategy officer at HighQ, and VP of product strategy at Accusoft, which acquired Adeptol, a company Prateek founded. Prateek previously worked for several companies, including EMC, Sapient, Cognizant, and NEC. Prateek holds an MBA and a Bachelor’s of engineering degree in instrumentation and process control.