10 Oracle AI and data science leaders
Sujith Ravi, Group Vice President, AI Foundations at Oracle, heads this list of Oracle AI and data science leaders, which also includes vice presidents of AI, generative AI and applied AI, a head of artificial intelligence and a director of AI and ML research. A reader can learn how AI and data science leaders work at Oracle from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Ashok Manthina
LinkedInExperience: Group Vice President, Head of Fusion AI Engineering, Oracle · Oracle
Ashok Manthina has been Group Vice President, Head of Fusion AI Engineering, Oracle since March 2024, and has also held Vice President, Head of Engineering Fusion AI Apps at Oracle since December 2023. Ashok Manthina was Vice President Of Product Development at Oracle from 2015 to 2023 and Sr Director, Software Development - Fusion Applications from 2014 to 2015.
Dan Spellman
LinkedInExperience: Group Vice President of AI and OCI, Health & Science · Oracle
Dan Spellman has been Group Vice President of AI and OCI, Health & Science at Oracle since May 2026. Dan Spellman was Vice President of AI and OCI, Health & Science at Oracle from 2024 to 2026, Global AI Cloud Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences from 2023 to 2024 and Director of AI/ML, Healthcare & Life Sciences from 2022 to 2023.
Jason Peck
LinkedInExperience: Director, AI & ML Research · Oracle
Jason Peck has been Director, AI & ML Research at Oracle since November 2023, directing an AI and ML research lab with a focus on AI assurance. Jason Peck was Research Lead, AI & ML Research at Oracle from 2019 to 2023, Research Scientist, ML Research from 2017 to 2019 and Technical Lead, Deep Learning Accelerators from 2016 to 2017.
Jayanta Debnath
LinkedInExperience: Head of Artificial Intelligence · Oracle
Jayanta Debnath has been Head of Artificial Intelligence at Oracle since August 2025, based in London, and describes heading strategy, architecture and engineering for an AI Centre of Excellence that builds an agent platform and agentic applications. Jayanta Debnath was Director Software Development & Architecture at Oracle from 2022 to 2025 and Director - Identity and Cloud Native Applications at Standard Chartered from 2020 to 2022.
Jun Qian
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Generative AI Services · Oracle
Jun Qian has been Vice President of Generative AI Services at Oracle since June 2023, and was Vice President of AI Science and Development at Oracle from 2020 to 2023. Jun Qian was Head of AI and Machine Learning at Sift from 2018 to 2020 and Founding Manager of Amazon Machine Learning at Amazon from 2006 to 2016.
Katrin Kirchhoff
LinkedInExperience: VP, AI and Applied Science · Oracle
Katrin Kirchhoff has been VP, AI and Applied Science at Oracle since March 2025, a Research role based in Seattle at Vice President level. Katrin Kirchhoff was Director of Applied Science at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2021 to 2025, Principal Research Scientist at AWS from 2018 to 2021 and Research Professor at the University of Washington from 2001 to 2019.
Peter Guerra
LinkedInExperience: GVP AI · Oracle
Peter Guerra has been GVP AI at Oracle since August 2023, leading data and AI strategy and execution and helping enterprises and government organizations move AI from experimentation into production-scale deployment. Peter Guerra was Head of Data & AI Service Line at Microsoft from 2022 to 2023 and Director, Industry Growth Team at AWS from 2020 to 2022.
Sanjay Mehta
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Engineering, AI and Data Science Platform · Oracle
Sanjay Mehta has been Vice President Engineering, AI and Data Science Platform at Oracle since May 2018, responsible for the development, deployment, integration and production operations of the Data Science Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Sanjay Mehta was Vice President, Head - Product Architecture at Infosys from 2017 to 2018 and VP Engineering at Skytree from 2015 to 2017.
Shasank Chavan
LinkedInExperience: Group Vice President - Applied AI & Data Engineering · Oracle
Shasank Chavan has been Group Vice President - Applied AI & Data Engineering at Oracle since October 2025, leading applied AI and data engineering work that the profile lists as agents, vectors and Iceberg. Shasank Chavan held Vice President - Data, In-Memory and AI Technologies at Oracle from 2018 to 2026 and was an Architect there from 2014 to 2018.
Sujith Ravi
LinkedInExperience: Group Vice President, AI Foundations · Oracle
Sujith Ravi has been Group Vice President, AI Foundations at Oracle since January 2024. Sujith Ravi was Founder & CEO of SliceX AI from 2021 to 2024, Director, Alexa AI at Amazon from 2019 to 2021 and Senior Staff Research Scientist, Senior Manager & Technical Lead at Google from 2012 to 2019, and has sat on the University of California, Santa Cruz industry advisory board since 2020.
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- 01How do you decide which AI capabilities to build as shared platforms and which to build inside a product?
- 02What has worked for you in moving research and applied science work into a cloud service?
- 03How do you judge whether an AI feature is ready for enterprise customers?
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