Cohesity appoints Sanjay Poonen as CEO and President

Cohesity has introduced the appointment of Sanjay Poonen as CEO and President. He will even be a part of the Cohesity Board of Administrators. Poonen was previously Chief Working Officer (COO) of VMware and President of SAP. Mohit Aron, who has been CEO since founding the corporate in 2013, will speed up Cohesity’s product innovation and roadmap as Founder and Chief Expertise and Product Officer. Aron will proceed to steer the corporate’s analysis and improvement (R&D), help and providers, in addition to the Workplace of the CTO. He’ll stay on the Cohesity Board of Administrators.

“Cohesity sits on the intersection of three of the best precedence enterprise points at present – cybersecurity, cloud and information administration – and is poised to change into a significant powerhouse with trade analyst companies naming the corporate a frontrunner and one of many quickest rising in its class,” mentioned Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity.

“In my due diligence with clients, I’ve discovered that Cohesity has the most effective know-how in its class and protects information for lots of the greatest manufacturers within the Fortune 500. Above all, Mohit has constructed an unbelievable group throughout the organisation that’s dedicated to driving innovation whereas placing clients first. I sit up for main this proficient organisation and driving even additional success in sturdy partnership with Mohit and all Cohesians.”

In his most up-to-date position as COO of VMware, Poonen oversaw gross sales, advertising and marketing, providers and alliances and performed a key position in doubling revenues from roughly $6bn to $12bn. Poonen additionally performed a significant position in architecting a number of profitable cloud partnerships, together with AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle. He led the corporate’s safety and end-user computing companies, together with the acquisition of AirWatch and Carbon Black. Previous to VMware, Poonen served as President of SAP the place he led SAP’s Functions, Industries and Platform groups, serving in engineering and gross sales roles that helped double SAP revenues from roughly $10bn to $20bn.

“As we scale, it is very important me to have a tighter concentrate on the place I spend my time to have the best impression. I approached the board with the objective of discovering a seasoned and confirmed govt that I might associate with to attain our formidable targets. I’m excited to work with Sanjay as we proceed to develop and disrupt the $25bn information administration market,” mentioned Aron. “I’ll proceed to work intently with our clients and companions to additional drive Cohesity’s know-how and product management ahead as we fight ransomware, get rid of information fragmentation and simplify information administration within the hybrid and multicloud world.” 

“Sanjay is ideally suited to be the subsequent CEO of Cohesity. He is without doubt one of the software program trade’s most profitable and revered executives, has an unbelievable observe file of driving development and operational excellence, is keen about clients and companions, strongly believes in firm tradition and is concentrated on delivering best-in-class innovation,” mentioned Gaurav Garg, Chairman of the Board and Founding Accomplice of Wing Ventures.

“Mohit helped lead the event of the Google file system, co-founded the trade’s premier hyperconverged infrastructure firm and at Cohesity, created the chief in next-gen information administration. With Sanjay and Mohit, together with the remainder of the seasoned management group, Cohesity will proceed to drive innovation and remedy our buyer’s most important information administration and safety challenges for years to come back,” Garg added.