Technical Director, Financial Services, OCTO, Google Cloud

Ulku Rowe is a Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Google Cloud. At the forefront of Google’s cloud and machine learning capabilities, she enables the financial services industry to take advantage of Google’s technology to fuel their digital transformation.

Before joining Google, Ulku was a Managing Director of Technology and CTO at J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America. During her financial services career, she built technology platforms for trading & analytics, middle & back-office, risk management, and finance. Driving business transformation through technical innovation and leadership has always been her focus.

Ulku received her MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her BS degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul.

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Fulbright Association, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Fintech Advisory Group, CapitalG Advisory Board, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering Board of Visitors.