Search Rocket site

Rocket Software Appoints Gary Gregory as Chief Technology Officer and Puneet Kohli Becomes President of Application Modernization Business Unit

March 7, 2023

As Rocket Software continues to innovate and invest in technologies that better support the modernization efforts of its customers, we have made new additions to our leadership team to continue our strong momentum. Gary Gregory now steps into the role of Chief Technology Officer, with Puneet Kohli becoming President of Application Modernization business unit. Gary and Puneet have played a critical role in Rocket Software’s success and helped deliver best-in-class application modernization support to customers.

Gary Gregory Becomes Chief Technology Officer

Rocket Software’s leadership team is critical to ensuring sustained success while adhering to the company’s core values. Through the years, Gary has proven himself both with strong leadership in application modernization, but also in a mentorship role for fellow Rocketeers. With the step up to CTO, Gary brings innovative thinking and a passion for customer success that has helped fuel the momentum within his business unit.

As CTO, Gary will assume a leadership role, working with CEO Milan Shetti to help guide strategic initiatives as well as merger and acquisition activity— all aimed at giving customers the best possible technology solutions to solve the most pressing IT challenges. He will help drive innovations that make it easier to square up the state of IT with how applications are written and maintained to reduce the barriers to modernization by cutting costs and eliminating risk.

Puneet Kohli Takes the Reins as President of the Application Modernization Business Unit

Puneet Kohli enters the role of president at a pivotal time for the Application Modernization business unit. Rocket Software’s customers rely on these applications to tackle some of the most challenging IT problems and Puneet’s leadership will be an indispensable asset for the whole team as it continues to provide new ways of meeting those needs.

With a deep background and long track record of success at Rocket Software, Puneet represents everything that makes our company successful. He has been a valuable part of the Rocket Software team for the last five years, holding multiple leadership positions driving the Quality, DevOps, and Product Engineering teams.

He also helped bring the latest wave of enhancements to the Rocket® Modernization Suite for IBM i, unlocking new potential for customers to extend the value of their IT systems and stay ahead of the curve on modernization. Stepping into the new role, Puneet will report to Milan, and will lead the applications team to help customers and partners increase agility and drive customer engagement across applications.

Learn more about our newest additions and the entire leadership team at Rocket Software.