Desikan Madhavanur 

Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer,  JDA

Desikan Madhavanur is JDA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, responsible for the company’s product solution strategy, with a charter to invest in and develop JDA’s current marketleading solutions in the areas of planning, execution and retail while harnessing the collective power of cloud, IoT, analytics and big data to bring new solutions to market that deliver real-time, actionable insights and customer value. Madhavanur joined JDA from CA Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President and Business Center head for Data Center Orchestration. There he had P&L and growth responsibility for a business unit focused on driving modern application delivery, deployment, management, user adoption and profitable monetization. Prior to CA, Madhavanur served as GVP of Engineering, Emerging Technologies and GM of Products & Strategy at E2Open. He has also held leadership positions at JP Morgan and i2 Technologies, where he spent four years as the lead product manager for collaborative supply and demand planning solutions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Annamalai University in India, a Master’s degree in systems and industrial engineering from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of Texas.

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