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Warren Barkley Joins Clearwater Analytics as CTO

Clearwater AnalyticsClearwater-Analytics - Warren Barkley, a US based financial services provider has revealed the addition of new member to its executive team. Clearwater Analytics is popularly known in the industry as leading provider of web based investment portfolio accounting, reporting and reconciliation services for institutional investors. The firm has now onboarded Mr. Warren Barkley to serve as its new Chief Technology Officer effectively immediately. Mr. Warren is a veteran in technology industry with nearly 25 years of experience and is a leading authority in networking, machine learning, and wireless and communications tech and holds more than 60 worldwide patents. He spent a great part of his career serving in Microsoft where he player critical role in development of wireless networking in Windows, Skype for business and other popular media technologies provided by the tech giant. He is well known in particular for establishing WIFI as worldwide standard and has authored many key wireless specifications.

He began his multi-decade long career at Microsoft in 1996 and served in the firm for sixteen years straight during which he held the roles of Group Program Manager and General Manager. As General Manager at Partner level he focused on Microsoft Office Lync – 2010-2012 and was responsible for engineering and strategy for Lync products. He has various other achievements such as launching Office 365 voice in 4 countries in less than a year, led the acquisition of various companies and Intellectual Property including Perceptive Pixel. He then returned back to Microsoft later in his career and once again served as General Manager. During his second rodeo with the tech giant, he was a part of its start-up unit which built solutions that used AI, deep learning, MR&C and computer vision technologies. Aside from Microsoft, he also handled AI unit in capacity of technical advisor at Udacity.

Some of his other notable roles include – CTO & EVP of Engineering at SMART Technologies, Advisor at AltSchool and General Manager at Amazon Web Services. During his term at Amazon, he launched multiple public services. In particular, Warren served as General Manager for Amazon Web Services Machine learning Group. Warren is expected to leverage his past experience and knowledge in working with AI and Machine learning to help fortify Clearwater’s products as they work to evolve its SaaS Solutions to serve some of worlds largest and most complex institutional investors.  Mr. James Price who preceeded Warren as Chief Technical Officer had taken on the role of Chief Quality Officer and will be responsible for driving quality throughout the organization via controls, automation, improved testing, and advanced reporting leaving Warren fully in-charge of all technical aspects.

Commenting on his new role at the firm, Warren said “I have worked with, advised and held positions at some of the most innovative technology companies in the world. I see Clearwater in that same lineage of industry influencers and I’m thrilled to be part of its next chapter”. 

Speaking about Warren’s addition to the team, Sandeep Sahai – Chief Executive Officer at Clearwater Analytics said “We are thrilled to have Warren join Clearwater. He is the kind of industry leader that enables us to evolve and improve at an exponential rate. I know our clients, future clients and employees will all benefit from his leadership”.