Rathi Murthy

Rathi Murthy is CTO and President of Expedia Product & Technology, which includes overseeing the company’s product and platform strategy. In this role, she focuses on innovating accessible and equitable products, and delivering quality experiences for travelers, partners, and developers. She most recently served as CTO for Verizon Media. Recognized as a transformative technology executive, Rathi oversaw Verizon Media’s global technology strategy, leading the company’s continued innovations in 5G while also managing the platform technology and infrastructure. Previously, Rathi was Senior Vice President and CTO for Gap, Inc. where she developed an end-to-end technology strategy for Gap Inc.’s broad portfolio of brands. Prior to Gap, Rathi was CIO for Enterprise Growth at American Express, where she managed end-to-end platform technology, infrastructure and operations for the suite of American Express pre-paid products. While at American Express, Rathi was named Top Woman in Cloud Innovation in 2014, and Most Influential Women in Payments in 2015. Rathi has held senior technology leadership roles at some of the world’s best technology companies including eBay, Inc., Yahoo, Sun Microsystems and WebMD. Rathi also currently sits on the board of directors for PagerDuty. Rathi has extensive technology and engineering experience and has spent most of her career developing and building platforms and products for emerging technologies. Her expertise lies in her ability to manage engineering teams and drive change. She is also an Art of Living Teacher and has a passion to help spread peace in the community. Rathi holds a Masters in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University, California.