Rodan Zadeh, SM/MOT ‘04
Speaker/Panel Team Member 2017, 2016
Rodan Zadeh is a corporate executive with close to 20 years of strategic management in IT and communications. His areas of focus are BigData, Cloud and IoT.
Rodan’s professional career began as an engineering scientist for advanced optoelectronics communication systems after receiving his electronics engineering degrees in 1997. He has held several key executive roles in driving Attunity Inc. and EMC’s data management and services for the Cloud and BigData. Also at EMC, he led the strategy for mid-tier data platforms.
Prior to his career with EMC, he was founder of several early stage ITC innovators. Rodan also served as the entrepreneur-in-residence for private equity arm of Citizens bank as well as board member for dBm Optics. He rose through the ranks of management with Lucent and product engineer with Molex.
Rodan is a lifetime member of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, a certified cloud architect, licensed ITIL foundation member, organizer of MIT CIO symposium, and a strategic contributor to Sloan Alumni of Boston. Rodan holds a Master’s in management of technology from MIT and electronic engineering, Cum Laude.