Ritu has more than 20 years of experience in the information technology industry. She has held senior technical leadership positions in multi-national hardware and software companies including Harris Semiconductors, Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewett-Packard), Microsoft Corporation, and Amazon Inc. At Microsoft she was part of the core operating systems division where she delivered over a dozen important features in three Windows release cycles by motivating diverse engineering teams and driving results through all stages of the development cycle. At Amazon, she led a games platform group to deliver Amazon’s video game analytic service in record time. Previously she founded S-Cube and served as its chief executive officer. S-Cube provided software consulting services to the top Fortune 100 companies.

She received her BS and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University and the University of Massachusetts respectively. She received her MBA degree in Technology Management from the University of Washington Seattle.

Ritu founded CK to help change the perception that innovation in computing is limited to individuals with certain types of personalities. She is on a mission to inspire young people, especially young girls, to embrace computing by showing them the fun side of it while exposing them to the possibilities of having positive impact on our global society.