Vijay Sankaran
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Vijay Sankaran is vice president and chief technology officer for Johnson Controls. In this role, Sankaran and his team accelerate and unify product software engineering development efforts creating common software architecture to further drive the enterprise software technology strategy while expanding customer solutions through the OpenBlue digital platform.
Sankaran has held leadership roles in technology transformation across a spectrum of industries and most recently was Chief Information Officer and Head of Innovation at TD Ameritrade, with responsibility for digital strategy, customer platforms, software engineering, technology operations, cybersecurity, data management and analytics, and enterprise innovation. Sankaran also held executive roles at Ford Motor Company.
Sankaran holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. at Duke University Fuqua School of Business.
