Sarang Kirpekar is the Senior Vice President and Head of Product Engineering for Hitachi Vantara since February 2021. HV Product Engineering included Lumada Software, Converged/Hyperconverged, Hitachi NAS and Content Storage product lines. Since June 2021 he is also the Executive sponsor for Hitachi Vantara’s ESG initiatives. As a part of this role he regularly works with leaders in the ESG domain in Hitachi Ltd. Prior to Hitachi Vantara Sarang has held leadership roles at eBay , Yahoo , Shutterfly and Teradata. Sarang brings deep experience in Product Engineering , Operations, Infrastructure , Product Management and Data Sciences.

Sarang is has also been on the Forbes Technology Council for the last four years.