Roshan Popal
Chief Technology Officer at Cypress Creek Energy
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
About Roshan Popal
Roshan Popal is Chief Technology Officer at Cypress Creek Energy. Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
A technology executive with a proven track record of optimizing systems, processes, and organizations to accelerate growth across public, private, and PE-backed enterprises. Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Cypress Creek Energy, Mr. Popal is responsible for software engineering, enterprise systems, IT, and cybersecurity, while leading the company’s AI enablement efforts and helping position Cypress Creek as an AI-first organization. In parallel, Cypress Creek is helping answer the call of AI for energy by supporting the infrastructure and innovation required to meet growing demand. He is known for building, developing, and leading high-performing teams across business systems, cloud, IT, and cybersecurity on a global scale. Leveraging strong business acumen and deep technical expertise, he aligns technology and security strategies to deliver measurable business impact. In his previous role, Mr. Popal served as Chief Information Officer at Instructure, an education technology company (acquired by KKR in October 2024). Prior to Instructure, he held the role of CISO and SVP of Cloud Operations at MicroStrategy. His areas of expertise include quote-to-cash system optimization and transformation, organizational alignment, FinOps, cloud operations and migrations, infrastructure automation, security engineering, compliance (SOX/SOC/NIST), and extensive M&A experience.
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Additional experience
Independent Executive Consultant
DarkLake Technologies
October 2024 – September 2025
Education
- MS, George Mason University
- MS Certificate, George Mason University