CTO Forum Appoints Venky Rangachari to Advisory Board

Rangachari is Chief Information Officer for HPE Networking at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a global leader in enterprise technology infrastructure and advanced networking

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The CTO Forum today announced that Venky Rangachari, Chief Information Officer for HPE Networking at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been appointed to the CTO Forum Advisory Board. The CTO Forum brings together senior technology executives, business leaders and academicians to discuss and collaborate on key technology issues as well as to accelerate innovation across organizations.

"We are delighted to welcome Venky Rangachari to the CTO Forum Advisory Board," said CTO Forum Founding Chair and President Basheer Janjua. "Venky is an exceptional technology leader whose career has been defined by anticipating what comes next and turning technological opportunity into enterprise-scale results. From infrastructure and cloud to SaaS and, today, AI and intelligent networking, he has consistently led through periods of profound technological change. His depth of experience, combined with his thoughtful and forward-looking perspective, will bring tremendous value to our Advisory Board and to the CTO Forum community."

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Rangachari is helping lead technology transformation for HPE Networking, one of the company's most strategically important businesses. He has played a key role in bringing together HPE Aruba Networking and HPE Juniper Networking following Hewlett Packard Enterprise's acquisition of Juniper Networks, including the integration of HPE Aruba Networking and HPE Juniper Networking and the advancement of the company's vision for AI-native, self-driving networks. Prior to joining HPE, Rangachari held senior technology leadership roles at Anaplan, Thomson Reuters, Wyndham Hotel Group and Exodus Communications. His career spans nearly three decades of technology transformation across infrastructure, enterprise applications, SaaS, cloud, security and AI. A recognized industry leader and frequent speaker on technology and innovation, Rangachari has been named a Super Global finalist for the Bay Area CIO ORBIE Awards and received the 2026 HMG Global Leadership Institute Award.

"I am delighted to join the CTO Forum Advisory Board and look forward to contributing to a community that brings together some of the most thoughtful technology leaders in the world," said Rangachari. "The pace of change across technology—and particularly the convergence of AI, cloud, networking and security—creates both extraordinary opportunities and important questions for leaders. I look forward to sharing perspectives, learning from my fellow Board members and contributing to the candid exchange of ideas that makes the CTO Forum such a valuable community."

CTO Forum hosts a series of events for its members each year, gathering the brightest minds to connect, debate and solve the big issues of our time. Through the concerted efforts of its dedicated Advisory Board, the CTO Forum has introduced the Enterprise AI Leadership Series: Governing, Scaling, and Competing with AI. As Artificial Intelligence crosses a structural inflection point and becomes core enterprise infrastructure, the Series brings together leading faculty from top universities and distinguished industry leaders to address a fundamental challenge facing today's enterprises: converting unprecedented AI capability into repeatable, governed, enterprise-wide value. The curriculum explores the leadership challenges at the heart of this transformation—from reasoning about probabilistic, adaptive and increasingly autonomous systems to designing architectures and operating models that scale responsibly, governing AI across functions, geographies and regulatory regimes, and aligning people, workflows and incentives with AI-driven change.

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