About

Rupal Shirpurkar is a business leader with over 10 years of relevant experience in the cloud industry. She is currently the Business Head, Product & Strategy at Click2Cloud, where she leads the global business relationship with Microsoft Azure, Huawei Cloud, Alibaba cloud, T-Systems, and SoftBank Cloud. Her main focus is to help enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformation journey through cloud migration and similar services. Rupal is passionate about open-source strategies and communities. She is an Outreach Committee lead at Centaurus, a NextGen 5G cloud & SODA Foundation community under Linux Foundation. She is also a personal advocate for building an ecosystem and empowering the youth and women in tech. As an MVP, Rupal is helping Alibaba & SoftBank Cloud to manage and grow their Cloud business, with a key focus on hybrid workloads through Click2Cloud’s Cloud Assessment & Multi-Cloud Management solution offerings at large scale. She is also working with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) & product leadership to implement the strategy for “Technical Talent Management” and “Azure Migrate” & execute it Worldwide. Rupal has deep international experience in startups and enterprises to develop and execute go-to-market (GTM) plans for cloud migration or similar services with cloud customers. She has been a speaker at top technology conferences across the globe. As the Global Cloud Solution Assessment head at Click2Cloud, Rupal oversees the worldwide team that defines the strategy and programs of Solution Assessments. Together, they help customers accelerate their digital transformation journey, enable cloud capabilities, and manage IT assets for cost control and continuous optimization. Rupal has also played a strategic role in growing Click2Cloud, leading 60+ very talented cross-functional teams specifically in charge of the Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI), Infrastructure & Applications business for their Customer Success unit. She has delivered 50+ solutions under industry solutions for an enterprise/SMC’s clients to generate and drive more than the annual target of $40+M ACR (Banks, Insurances, FinTechs, Retail, Health care, Manufacturing, Public Sector). Rupal's past experience includes working as an International Business Development Manager at Click2Cloud, where she led the marketing & product management of the company focusing on APAC. She has expertise in AWS, Azure, and DevOps.