Ravi Gokyada

Ravi is an enthusiastic technologist, a solutions strategist and a get it done implementer. Ravi is driven by customers and strongly believes in producing enterprise value by applying technology to solve customer problems. Understanding customers holistically using data and learning techniques to solve problems is his passion. Over the last 18 years of his career across various industries, he practiced and implemented what he strongly believed. He has tons of experience working with Data solutions, and Web technologies. Ravi is a major in electrical and electronics engineering and a minor in software engineering. He is MBA from Northwestern Kellogg school of Management. He is very passionate about combining his business and technology skills to drive enterprise value. He currently works as a Vice President (I am just promoted) and Head of Digital technologies at Blick Art Materials, an industry leader in “fine art supplies”, catering to professional artists and educators for over a decade. He embraced and developed a culture of small teams, agility, outcome focused, learning and commitment to innovate in his organization. Ravi reports to the CEO, and his primary role is to establish business strategy alongside other executives, develop and implement the technology vision to meet business goals. He has been instrumental at what he does and brings a wealth of knowledge in digital transformation, including but not limited to analytics. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his lovely daughters and being funny around them. He also like to learn history to connect to the present and kick his imagination into the future.