ISSIP

Board Of Directors

ISSIP BOD Member and Past President (2018): Rama Akkiraju,  Fellow, CTO AIOps, IBM

Rama Akkiraju is an IBM Fellow, IBM Master Inventor and IBM Academy Member. Presently, Rama is the CTO of AI Operations, which aims to optimize the IT Operations management processes with AI-infusion. Rama has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, and Enterprise Management 360 magazines, and is  the recipient of the University of California, Berkeley’s Athena award. More…

ISSIP BOD Member: Gonzalo Salgueiro, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

Gonzalo Salgueiro is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. He is an established subject matter expert and industry thought leader in Collaboration technologies, multimedia communications protocols and architectures as well as network design and deployment of real-time voice/video/data over IP. Recently, Gonzalo has been focusing on various emerging technologies and the Services opportunities they offer. More…

ISSIP BOD Member and Founding President (2013): Ammar Rayes, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

Ammar Rayes is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems. He has been at the core of developing IP-based network and service management solutions for over 20 years. His main areas of expertise include Smart Services, NMS/OSS, Big Data, Cloud, Mobility, Performance and Traffic Engineering, and more…

ISSIP BOD Member, Secretary / Treasurer (acting): Jim Spohrer, formerly, IBM, Apple

Jim Spohrer is the IBM Innovation Champion, Director of CODAIT,  and previously Director of IBM Global University Programs. He was the founding Director of service research at IBM and has widely published on service science and engineering. He received his undergraduate degree in Physics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence from Yale University. More…

ISSIP BOD Member, President, 2017:  Ralph Badineli, Professor, Virginia Tech


Ralph Badineli is a professor in the Department of Business Information Technology of the Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech. He received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Management from the Krannert Graduate School of Business of Purdue University, an M.S. degree in Physics from Purdue University, more…

ISSIP BOD Member: Haluk Demirkan, Professor, University of Washington – Tacoma

Dr. Haluk Demirkan is an innovation and analytics evangelist, maestro, data gig, recognized leader, experienced practitioner (20+ years), awarded consultant, accomplished scholar (~20 years), active applied researcher, cross-disciplinary teacher, effective mentor, invited speaker, productive author (150+ pubs) & professional student. More…

ISSIP BOD Member: Sunil Kripalani

Sunil Kripalani was Senior Vice President, United Healthcare Group, leading the development of digital software assets for a rapidly growing Healthcare and Pharmacy Benefits Management provider.

Previously Sunil was Vice President, Cisco Services Technology Group, responsible for more…

ISSIP BOD Member: Dr. Yasunori Kimura
Principal Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.


Dr. Yasunori Kimura is a member of ISSIP Board of Directors.  He’s been working on IT policymaking as a Principal Fellow at the Center for Research and Development Strategy in Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) since January 2017. Dr. Kimura joined Fujitsu Limited in 1981. More…