Vijay Sankaran is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Johnson Controls. In this role, Vijay and his team accelerate and unify product software engineering development efforts, creating common software architecture to drive the enterprise software technology strategy while expanding customer solutions through the OpenBlue digital platform.

Vijay 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. He also held executive roles at Ford Motor Company.

Vijay holds a Master of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.