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Ravi Gopalakrishnan is the CTO, NOOK Media LLC, and is responsible for Barnes & Noble’s NOOK® product business.

He joined our Palo Alto, CA, office in April 2009 and has led the development of our portfolio of critically acclaimed and award-winning NOOK devices, including NOOK® HD, NOOK® HD+, NOOK Tablet™, NOOK Color™, NOOK Simple Touch™ and NOOK Simple Touch™ with GlowLight™.

Consumer Reports rates NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight the best eBook Reader (one point higher than NOOK Simple Touch, the previous top-scoring model), while NOOK Color received CNET’s Editor’s Choice award. Our successful products have helped Barnes & Noble grow its eBook market share from 0% to over 25%.

Before joining Barnes & Noble, Mr. Gopalakrishnan was the VP of Engineering at Azingo, where he helped build a Linux mobile platform which was later acquired by Motorola. Prior to Azingo, he had a long tenure at Motorola, where he led the development and commercial deployment of new technologies including the world’s first GPRS system, the iconic RAZR and the world’s first 3G multimode UMTS system.

While at Motorola, Mr. Gopalakrishnan also led the company’s successful entry into the Japanese mobile market with the launch of the RAZR.

Mr. Gopalakrishnan holds an MS in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and an MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Chicago.