Haribabu (Hari) Ravella

Biography

Hari Ravella currently leads a professional services group at Amazon Webservices (AWS) driving cloud adoption and innovations. His prior assignments include leading global business operations for IBM Commerce Client Success Group and worldwide professional services for three product lines in the IBM Software Group. He joined Curam Global Services in 2006, moving to India to build and lead a 70+ member group providing professional services to a global client base. Returning to the US in early 2010, he led Curam’s services practice, business development and delivery until its acquisition by IBM in 2012.

Hari holds an M. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an MBA (2012) from SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy.  Hari’s research focuses on how technology impacts consumer decision making in various contexts. His dissertation examines how AI-based smart agents may be used to support physician-patient interactions, and the processes underlying patient responses in such interactions.  Hari has presented his research at multiple INFORMS Marketing Science conferences as well as at a special session at ACR 2020.