Prashanth Chandrasekar ’02

As Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow, the world’s largest and most trusted software developer and technologist community and platform with over 100 million monthly users, responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results. Lead an amazing global organization of Stackers who are passionate about our mission: empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. Previously, served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses. Also held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world’s leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history. Prior to joining Rackspace, was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting, focused on leading operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. MBA from Harvard Business School, M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine.