As CEO and President, Sanjay Poonen leads Cohesity in its mission to radically simplify how organizations secure and manage their data. Sanjay is a proven business executive with over 25 years of experience in scaling multi-billion dollar businesses and building strong teams. Most recently, Sanjay was COO at VMware, where he oversaw sales, marketing, services and alliances, doubling VMware from approximately $6B to $12B in revenue. Poonen played a vital role in architecting multiple successful cloud partnerships, including AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. He also led the company’s security and end-user computing businesses, including the acquisition of AirWatch and Carbon Black. Prior to VMware, Poonen served as President of SAP where he led SAP's Applications, Industries and Platform teams, serving in engineering and sales roles that helped double SAP from approximately $10B to $20B in revenue. He began his career as a software engineer at Microsoft and Apple. Sanjay has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated a Baker Scholar which designates his position in the top 5% of his graduating class, a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelor's degree in computer science, math and engineering from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Sanjay holds two patents. Poonen serves on the Supervisory Board of Philips, and Board of Snyk.

Kevin is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Mandiant, Inc. Kevin also leads the Cohesity Security Advisory Council and sits on the Cohesity board of directors. One of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts, Kevin is sought after by the U.S. government and Fortune 100 companies to lead the response when cybercriminals strike. He has testified in hearings before the U.S. House and Senate committees and has served as a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency since December 2021. Kevin began his cybersecurity career in the United States Air Force, serving as a computer security officer in the 7th Communications Group at the Pentagon and later as a special agent and cyber crime investigator in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In the private sector, Kevin held senior positions in the security consulting divisions of Sytex, acquired by Lockheed Martin, and Foundstone, acquired by McAfee. Kevin holds a B.S. in computer science from Lafayette College and a M.S. in forensic science from The George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program.

Since early product inception in 2006, Lee Klarich has served as the head of product management at Palo Alto Networks, overseeing the product strategy and roadmap and playing a key role in delivering our Next-Generation Security Platform. In August 2017, he became chief product officer with responsibility for both engineering and product management for the company.

Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was the director of product management for Juniper Networks, where he was responsible for firewall/VPN platforms and software. He joined Juniper Networks through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition, where he managed the same product line. Previously, he held various positions at Excite@Home and Packard Bell-NEC. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell University

Kelly Bissell leads Microsoft’s Services group globally. He has more than 28 years of Cybersecurity.

Kelly has been working hundreds of clients for 30+ years to help them be compliant and secure. At Microsoft, the goal is to work with clients and Security Engineering to transform the cyber security market to make the world safer and more secure. Doing so will drive more product adoption and enhance the Microsoft brand. Work with clients, regulators, and law enforcement to reduce cyber-crime.

Before Microsoft, Kelly led Accenture Security, before that, he built and led Deloitte Cyber Risk Services and held various leadership positions with Arthur Andersen, AT&T, and others. Kelly has held the role of CIO and CTO of two different companies and CISO for a global bank.

Kelly is involved in several industry and technology groups recently authoring various articles and by-lines in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Executive, USA Today, and many others.

Currently, Kelly is working with national security for several counties in the Five Eyes and NATO. Kelly is tightly aligned with several cyber and law enforcement agencies around the world. He is working to secure the nations of Ukraine, Albania, and a few others.

Kristie Cummings is the Sr. Director of IT Infrastructure at NRG Energy, Inc., based at its headquarters in Houston, TX, covering Help Desk, End User Computing, and all Data Center Operations, including Servers, Storage, Network, Telecom, etc. She has been with the company for 20+ years, holding various positions within Infrastructure.

Mike Higgins is a veteran security executive with more than 30 years of experience in corporate and Federal Government roles. Today, Mike serves as the lead for technology security and privacy for healthcare operations at Amazon. Previously, Mike has held global executive security positions at Haven (the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase healthcare initiative), NBCUniversal, NYTimes, and LexisNexis. For more than a three decades, Mike has been a trusted executive security advisor inside and outside Global Fortune 1000 companies in Finance, Healthcare, Technology, and Media and Entertainment. For the last 25 years Mike has been an Adjunct Professor at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and the Masters’ Program for Information Security at Northeastern University. Mike holds dual certifications as a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and has been awarded the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Director’s Medal and Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 Awards. Mike received his Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University and his Masters’ from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Amol Kulkarni leads CrowdStrike’s product and engineering, with responsibility for the definition and delivery of CrowdStrike’s product and platform vision and roadmap. With this vision as their foundation, Kulkarni and his global team develop and deliver cutting-edge and user-friendly products to protect customers and stay ahead of adversaries.

The long list of industry-leading innovations under Kulkarni spans the company’s highly rated Falcon Prevent^™ next-gen AV, the integration of intelligence into CROWDSTRIKE FALCON® INTELLIGENCE^™, the CrowdStrike Store opening trusted third-party applications to customers, and Falcon Fusion^™, a foundational workflow platform.

Kulkarni’s dedication to building a culture based on bottom-up innovation and collaboration across geographical and organizational boundaries results in a true “one team” approach to cybersecurity. He also developed CrowdStrike’s Software Development Lifecycle to spur customer-focused innovations while ensuring adherence to long-term architecture and design parameters.

Kulkarni also serves as a member of the board of directors of build.security.

As Chief Technology and Product Officer, Mohit Aron leads the company’s R&D, support and services as well as the Office of the CTO. Mohit has over 20 years of experience in building scalable, high- performance distributed systems, and has been attributed as the father of hyperconvergence. Mohit founded Cohesity in 2013 and has grown the company into a leading provider of next-gen data management. He also co-founded Nutanix as the CTO, now a public company and leader in hyperconverged technology, in 2009. Prior to co-founding Nutanix, Mohit was at Google as a lead developer on the Google File System, the software that manages data on Google’s large scale clusters. Aron graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from Rice University with a focus on distributed systems. He also holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi India. In 2018, he received the “Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award” from Rice University and also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi in 2019.

Ray is currently the Vice President of Cloud and Technology Alliances for Tenable, a public cyber security company focused on vulnerability and exposure management. He has spent the last 25 years in various leadership and executive positions at cyber security organizations driving consulting practices or strategic partnership teams globally. He started his career in cyber with Deloitte and has including stops at other global companies such as Internet Security Systems, McAfee, Symantec and CrowdStrike.

Ray graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a BS in Finance and then earned his MBA from UC Irvine with a focus on information systems. He resides in Huntington Beach California, along with his two teenage daughters and three legged tortoise named Lightning.

Patrick Coughlin is the Head of global Go-to-Market Strategy at Splunk. Patrick was the Co-founder and CEO of TruSTAR, a cyber intelligence management platform that was acquired by Splunk. Prior to TruSTAR, Patrick led cybersecurity and counterterrorism analyst teams for the US government and private sector clients in the US and EMEA.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Lynn leads the global marketing function driving customer experience and accelerating adoption of Cohesity’s solutions. Lynn brings 25 years of marketing experience for high technology B2B organizations. Prior to joining us, Lynn was CMO at Veritas where she led the new branding and successful repositioning as a multi-cloud data management company after separation from Symantec. Before Veritas, Lynn served as CMO at Good Technology where she led global marketing, culminating in a sale to Blackberry to establish their mobile security software platform. Prior to Veritas, Lynn was with Cisco Systems, where she served in various executive roles, most recently as Vice President, Global Collaboration Marketing leading marketing for the $5B collaboration business encompassing telepresence, unified communications and WebEx. Lynn holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

John Murphy leads the IT Infrastructure and Operations teams for Conagra Brands. In this role he oversees IT infrastructure for both the data center, corporate headquarters and manufacturing operations leveraging a mix of on premise and cloud solutions. In his tenure at Conagra, he has led efforts that span both application and infrastructure transformations including transitioning to a managed services support model. In addition to leading the infrastructure services functions for Conagra he also oversees the Cloud COE ensuring Conagra is positioned to leverage public cloud.

John holds an MBA in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University and a BS in Management from the Wayne State College.