Rajiv Pant is Chief Technology Officer & VP at The New York Times. He supervises a staff of 250+, including the Vice Presidents of Web & Mobile Engineering, CMS & Publishing, and Ecommerce & Customer Service; the Directors of Business Intelligence, Quality, and Project Management; and The Editor of Interactive News Technology. Rajiv twice received the prestigious Knight Ridder Excellence Award for Technology Innovation. Among the products developed by Rajiv and his team is Cofax, a leading open-source content management system used by newspapers and other companies around the world. Xmultra, a systems integration product developed by his team for feeds transfer and transformation with multiple newspaper systems, won the Newspaper Association of America’s New Media Award. As a consultant, Rajiv has assisted organizations with technology leadership and product development. He founded a consulting company in the areas of enterprise software and open source development