Gaurav Dhillon is co-founder and CEO of Informatica, one of Silicon Valley's fastest growing software companies. Gaurav has led the company's rapid growth since 1996, taking it from a privately funded US operation to a multi-national, publicly traded corporation. Under Gaurav's leadership, the company has received broad industry recognition as an innovative market leader serving the decision support needs of more than 1300 global companies worldwide with its leading data integration platform and analytic applications.

Before founding Informatica, he held various management and technical positions at Sterling Software and Unisys. Gaurav holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Punjab University.

Gaurav Dhillon, CEO and cofounder, was accredited with the throne of CEO of the Year by siliconindia magazine, this annual award recognizes the business achievements and contributions of executives across the nation to the advancement of the IT industry.

About Informatica

Informatica provides enterprise analytic software that helps decision makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica offers the industry's only integrated enterprise analytics suite, including a powerful data integration platform, cross value chain analytic applications, and real-time delivery of analytics via Web, wireless and voice. More than 1,370 customers worldwide, including 60 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyze, personalize and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision makers to optimize business performance.

The global list of customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Borders Group, Brocade, Brunswick, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, France Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Nokia, Orbitz, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint, UBS, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service and Vizzavi.