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Rathi Murthy

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Enterprise Growth

Rathi Murthy is Senior Vice President and CIO, Enterprise Growth, for American Express. In this capacity, she manages end-to-end platform technology, infrastructure and operations for the Serve platform and suite of American Express pre-paid products, including the delivery and implementation of the Bluebird, American Express Serve with Softcard and retail distribution partnerships. While at American Express, Rathi was named Top Woman in Cloud Innovation in 2014.Prior to American Express, Rathi had over 19 years in increasingly senior technology leadership roles at some of the world�s best technology companies. Rathi worked as the Senior Director of Engineering for eBay Inc., where she was responsible for ensuring a high quality, reliable customer experience for eBay Marketplaces. She managed a team of 250+ software engineers, significantly improving site quality and speed to market. Rathi also previously served at Yahoo!, Inc., where she grew an engineering organization from 5 to 100+. Her leadership dramatically reduced release cycle time and increased efficiency of Quality Assurance, build and release management. Rathi has held positions at several other technology firms including Sun Microsystems and WebMD.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.Rathi holds a Masters in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University, California.