Bharti Patel is the senior vice president, head of engineering at Hitachi Vantara. She has a combination of business and technical acumen, with more than 15 years of executive leadership roles in strategy, product management, design, engineering, and customer/partner management and experience leading big R&D teams of more than 850 talented people across various geographies. This passionate customer advocate has quickly transformed the most difficult customers into the best references through active, empathetic listening and laser-focused execution. She has fueled innovation in products and services as a key business driver at a rapid pace, with a record of bringing new products to market with a growth trajectory and converting legacy processes and products into modern, sustainable revenue generators.