Inder Gopal is Vice President for Networking Development and is responsible for all hardware and software networking products in IBM. Previously, Inder Gopal was Vice President of Big Data in the IBM's Software Group. Before IBM, he was the founding CEO of two venture-funded start-up companies, ReefEdge and Iptivia, and worked in senior executive roles at AT&T and Prodigy. He has a long record of successful commercialization of leading edge technology, often creating new markets and product categories. Inder has also had a distinguished research career in the area of computer networks, with 20 patents and more than 70 technical publications to his credit. He has served as editor of several technical journals and was elected Fellow of the IEEE. He has a PhD from Columbia University, New York and a BA from Oxford University, England.