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Otto Berkes is the Chief Technology Officer of CA Technologies. As a 25-year industry veteran, he has a passion for innovation and development. He has extensive experience leading the development of cutting-edge products and technologies.

Before joining CA in June 2015, Otto was the chief technology officer at HBO, where he directed efforts that created and delivered innovative digital technologies and products such as HBO GO®. Previously, Otto spent 18 years at Microsoft® and was one of the four original founders of Xbox, where he served as Xbox’s first architect leading its technical direction. He started his career at Microsoft as a senior software developer, where he worked on the first version of the Windows NT operating system, and re-wrote Microsoft’s OpenGL implementation.

An advocate of diversity, he is a member of the University of Vermont’s STEM leadership council where he is focused on addressing gender, racial, and economic gaps across all of the STEM disciplines.

Otto earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Vermont. He is co-inventor on and holds multiple patents spanning design, mobile device interaction and core computing technologies.