Prashant Ketkar, CTO of Parallels, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Ketkar leads Alludo’s product and engineering operations that drive the continuous evolution and transformation of the product portfolio. He previously served as SVP of Product & Engineering at Resolve Systems and as Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Madrona Venture Labs where he incubated ideas in the robotic process automation space. He also served as SVP of Product at Evident.io until the company's acquisition by Palo Alto Networks in 2018. Ketkar served as VP of Development at Oracle, setting up the company's Seattle R&D operations and heading its public cloud infrastructure efforts, and was an early product lead for Azure at Microsoft where he was responsible for core infrastructure services leading to Azure's launch in 2009. He has a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management.

Parallels is a global brand in cross-platform solutions that make it simple for businesses and individuals to use and access the applications and files they need on any device or operating system. Parallels helps customers leverage the best technology out there, whether it's Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, iOS, Android, or the cloud. Parallels solves complex engineering and user-experience problems by making it simple and cost-effective for businesses and individual customers to use applications anywhere, anytime. Parallels is part of the Alludo™ portfolio.