AUSTIN, Texas — Aug. 27, 2026 — CDK, the leading automotive retail software provider, today named Sudhakar Ramakrishna president and CEO and member of the CDK board of directors, effective Oct. 5. He succeeds Brian MacDonald, who will retire and serve as a senior strategic advisor to Brookfield and CDK, providing continuity and perspective through the planned transition. Ramakrishna is a seasoned enterprise technology leader with decades of experience building and scaling software businesses across cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. He most recently served as president and CEO of SolarWinds, a leading provider of infrastructure management software, and previously led Pulse Secure, where he worked closely with customers and partners in…
