Cohesity appoints former VMware COO Sanjay Poonen as CEO and President

California-based mostly details administration enterprise Cohesity has appointed Sanjay Poonen as its new chief executive officer (CEO) and president. He will also be becoming a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

In his previous job as main operations officer (COO) at VMware, Poonen aided double the company’s profits from US$6 billion to US$12 billion and coordinated important partnerships with Amazon World wide web Products and services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and Oracle. In addition, he led the company’s stability and end-person computing companies and spearheaded the acquisition of AirWatch and Carbon Black. As the president of SAP, Poonen oversaw SAP’s Programs, Industries and Platforms, and served double revenue from US$10 billion to US$20 billion.

For Mohit Aron, the previous CEO and now founder and chief technological innovation and solution officer of Cohesity, the appointment of Poonen, with his knowledge at VMware, is an prospect to change the data administration sector, “offering new worth in stability, simplicity, scale, performance, and substantially extra.”

In getting on this new purpose, Poonen stated he finds value in Cohesity’s team for its “strong engineering-centric and consumer achievements reputation” as well as in the role the corporation plays in getting 1 of the big gamers in details administration, with its ground breaking technological innovation, 3000+ clients and key companions this kind of as Amazon, AWS and Cisco.

“To top it all, this is a enterprise whose benefit proposition I can conveniently clarify to my mom and young children!” reported Poonen.