September 6 2017

Cohesity Adds Two More Seasoned Leaders to the Team

Industry-Recognized CFO and VP of Engineering Join Hyperconverged Secondary Storage Pioneer

Santa Clara, Calif. – Sept. 6, 2017 – Cohesity, the pioneer of hyperconverged secondary storage, announced today that Seamus Hennessy has joined the company as its new CFO and Vineet Abraham as its new VP of Engineering. These two strategic hires round out the leadership team with a strong bench of industry experience to help take the company to the next level.

Seamus is a recognized industry leader with more than 20 years of financial management experience in both public and private technology companies. His career includes eight years as CFO at the wireless network infrastructure category leader Ruckus Wireless, where he led that company through a successful IPO in 2012 and sale to Brocade Communications Systems in 2016. In addition, he served as CFO at Aerohive Networks, CFO at Bubble Motion and VP of Finance at NetScaler. His breadth of experience includes strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, corporate finance, and treasury. Seamus holds a Bachelor of Business Studies from the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Vineet is a highly regarded technical leader, with over 15 years of experience building distributed systems. Prior to Cohesity, Vineet was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Riverbed, where he was responsible for strategy and execution for Riverbed’s core products. He built a global engineering team and helped pivot the company into new market segments. Before that, he held various leadership roles at Brocade, where he helped build and launch several data-center networking products.

“I couldn’t be happier to have Seamus and Vineet on board, and know they will have a large part in scaling the company to ensure our rapid growth and future success,” said Mohit Aron, Cohesity’s founder and CEO.

About Cohesity
Cohesity makes your data work for you by consolidating secondary storage silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that spans both private and public clouds. Enterprise customers begin by radically streamlining their backup and data protection, then converge file and object services, test/dev instances and analytic functions to provide a global data store. Cohesity counts many Global 1000 companies among its rapidly growing customer base. CRN named Cohesity a Top 25 Disrupter and one of the 10 Coolest Hyperconverged Products of 2016. For more information, visit www.cohesity.com and follow @cohesity on Twitter.

Media Contacts
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