Nitin Gaur

Nitin is a forward-thinking, business-minded executive with rich experience as a leader, strategist, and innovator entrenched in the design and development of enterprise infrastructures and applications — including leading-edge enterprise blockchain solutions for Fortune 500 companies in 20+ countries. Tenacious and customer focused, Nitin is renown for his ability to analyse opportunities, anticipate trends, and create technologies that align with operational needs, catapult profitability, and dramatically improve the end-customer experience.

In his current role as Director of IBM's Blockchain Labs, he is responsible for instituting a body of knowledge and organizational understanding around blockchain technology and industry specific applications. His mission is building a “blockchain for enterprise” practice with client facing responsibilities and is tasked with building a new business built around industry disruption and disintermediation. Since taking this role in 2015, Nitin has:

* Pioneered enterprise blockchain strategy and advised IBM decision makers, business partners, and clients, on industry disruption, emerging application and services landscape around blockchain technology;

* Devised business engagement models around blockchain technology stack, services and regulation;

* Leveraged in-depth knowledge of payment technology landscape by reaching out to peers and past payment industry connections to device use cases and business models around payments and remittances that can employ blockchain technology;

* Design "blockchain for enterprise" solutions for large customers in regulated industries by working with various entities such as IBM research, large financial services industry clients, regulators and startup community. The goal was to address the fragmented blockchain landscape with existing application and transaction infrastructure.

Prior to his current role, Nitin served as the CTO for IBM's Mobile Payments solutions and IBM Cloud and lead our Mobile Solutions and Application Infrastructure Portfolio (WebSphere).

In his 18 years with IBM he has achieved various industry-recognized certifications, which keeps him in constant demand for technical paper presentations at internal and external conferences. The range of the topics presented by him span from software architectures to improvement of management processes. Nitin, has been focused on staying close to customers and providing IBM clients with solutions to realize their digital strategy through the adoption of our Hybrid Cloud Platform and our Mobile Solution (IBM MobileFirst) Portfolio.

Nitin is also appointed as an IBM Distinguished Engineer.