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As Chief Executive Officer and President, Sanjay Poonen leads Cohesity in its mission to radically simplify how organizations manage their data and unlock limitless value. 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.

As CFO and COO, Eric Brown is responsible for Cohesity’s finance, IT, operations, and M&A integration functions. With more than 25 years of technology industry experience, Brown brings extensive operational, financial and technology related expertise to Cohesity and has a track record of building and scaling high performing teams. Brown’s experience goes across various enterprise technology areas, including security, data analytics, data management, collaboration, and interactive entertainment. Prior to joining Cohesity, Brown led the successful IPO for Informatica as CFO, raising $1 billion in proceeds at a $10 billion enterprise value. Before Informatica, Brown served in various public company CFO roles at Electronic Arts, McAfee, and Polycom. He has consistently delivered growth and operating margin expansion in his roles. Brown is a technology enthusiast starting with his earliest experience as an AI/data mining company co-founder with his MIT classmates. Brown studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry and a Masters of Management Science from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

As Chief Sales Officer, Kit leads Cohesity’s global go-to-market organization. Kit was previously Senior Vice President of global accounts and telcos at VMware, where he was responsible for VMware’s largest and most strategic global customers, in addition to leading some of the largest sales verticals. Over the past three decades, Kit has held leadership roles across a range of innovative technology companies, including VMware, Uhana, and Cisco. With a focus on building high-performing, diverse teams, he brings a combination of enterprise sales expertise and technical acumen to the organization. Kit is a patent holder in VoIP technology and received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Computer Science from Gettysburg College.

Brian is Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, he is responsible for leading all aspects of Veritas Sales and Channel operations. Brian is a dynamic technology general manager and sales executive with strengths in building, scaling, and leading global sales organizations and driving hyper-growth cloud enterprise software (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), and converged infrastructure businesses. Brian started his career at IBM as an enterprise account manager and over a 30-year career held Infrastructure leadership positions in the U.S., Asia and Europe, including leadership for the Global Storage and Software business. More recently, Brian spent five years at Oracle as Senior Vice President, Cloud Business Group. There, he was responsible for three global lines of business: Cloud Infrastructure, Channel and Alliance Strategy, and Cloud Native/Linux. Brian has a bachelor’s of business administration (BBA) degree from the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.

As Chief People Officer, as well as Chief of Staff to the CEO, Rebecca is responsible for leading Cohesity’s people strategy, global talent acquisition, leadership development, belonging, organizational design, employee development, total rewards, people operations, and Cohesity’s workplace strategy. In her current role, she is focused on culture and driving the impact of HR across the Company to support its business goals and strategies. With more than 20 years of expertise and experience in business transformation, change management, organizational design and effectiveness, as well as driving a high-performance culture, Rebecca’s background informs her role as a trusted and strategic business advisor. Prior to joining Cohesity, Rebecca held leadership and operational roles at VMware, SAP, Business Objects, and Informatica. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, as well as certifications in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University and Human Resource Management from University of the Pacific.

Deepak Mohan is Executive Vice President of Engineering and Product. In this role, he is responsible for leading the vision, strategy and delivery of the Cohesity portfolio. Deepak is an experienced business leader and 30-year veteran of the backup and recovery space who started his career at Cheyenne Software. Most recently, he was EVP of Engineering at Veritas. Prior to that, he was SVP of Products and Engineering at Carbonite and before that, Deepak served as SVPof EMC’s Backup and Recovery division. Before his tenure at EMC, Deepak spent nearly 15 years at Veritas and later Symantec, where he led many of the largest software product groups and introduced several new product offerings. Deepak holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from New York City College and a master’s degree in Computer Science from New York University. He also holds two patents in the data protection space.

Lenny is responsible for ensuring that Cohesity’s customers are successful in exceeding the value of their investment in Cohesity solutions. This includes customer support, renewals teams, and coordinating the company focus on the end-to-end customer relationship. He is an accomplished operations executive with over 20 years of leadership and management experience at high-tech companies that include Western Union, Symantec, Multitude, Inc. (FireTalk), Excite@Home and Hewlett-Packard, where he successfully met the challenges of new ventures, turnaround businesses, and high-growth expansion to deliver strong and sustainable operating results. Lenny’s strengths include identifying and developing new business opportunities, strengthening and restructuring business operations, and building strong, productive and collaborative organizations. Prior to Veritas, Lenny served as Senior Vice President of Operations at Western Union for three years. Before that, in his 12 years at Symantec, Lenny grew the company’s eCommerce business 21 percent in a highly competitive and commoditized market, growing new online customers by 10 percent annually, leveraging big data for personalization, and expanding organizational and platform capabilities. Lenny holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University in New York City and a bachelor’s degree in applied physics from Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

As Cohesity’s Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Lissa leads the company’s global marketing organization. She oversees corporate positioning, brand development, thought leadership, corporate communications, product marketing, and digital strategy. Her leadership is focused on building high performance teams, shaping market and customer perception, and driving growth all through a customer-centric lens. Lissa brings over 25 years of experience in the technology industry having held a variety of leadership roles spanning product marketing, product management, and corporate marketing. Prior to joining Cohesity, she served as SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Veritas Technologies. She has also held senior leadership roles at HPE Aruba, Brocade Communications, Cisco and 3Com. Lissa holds a B.S. in Business Administration, with concentrations in Finance and Computer Science, from California State University, Chico.

Tim heads the legal function for Cohesity, bringing 20 years of experience in problem-solving and supporting the legal and intellectual property needs of fast-paced technology companies. Tim began his legal career doing corporate and securities work for tech clients and venture capital firms at Gunderson Dettmer. He later served as the General Counsel at Good Technology and as the SVP of Licensing at Openwave. Tim holds a bachelors in economics from UCLA and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.

As Chief Product Officer at Cohesity, Vasu Murthy’s mission is to help organizations worldwide be resilient to threats against their data. Vasu is a proven product leader with over 25 years of experience building products at every scale— startup day-zero, growth, multi-product scaling, and global public companies. Most recently, Vasu was VP of Products at Rubrik, responsible for the core product, platform, and partnerships, which grew 10x in ARR over six years, while navigating transformation across three fronts – Software to Subscription, On-prem to Cloud, and Backup to Data Security. Previously, Vasu was VP of Products at Oracle for Analytics Platform, launching several $100M+ products while driving market-leading innovation. He came to Oracle via its acquisition of DataScaler, an in-memory database company that he co-founded. Vasu is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur, where he was a JBNSTS scholar—a privilege given to only ten students in the state.

Murari is responsible for Cohesity’s engineering and R&D teams’ continued innovations across AI, security, and multicloud. In his 35+ years of experience, he has led development teams in startups and larger corporations. Prior to Cohesity, Murari was vice president of Engineering at Google Cloud, where he was responsible for the productivity of approximately 20,000 software engineers encompassing compute, storage, networking, security, databases, analytics, AI/ML, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud console, platforms, and fleet management. He also led a team of 650 software engineers focused on improving feature velocity, product quality, and reliability across the product portfolio. Previously, he spent 12 years at VMware in several engineering leadership roles, including SVP of Engineering. Murari holds a Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering where he was the recipient of the Siemens Prize for being the student with the best academic record in his branch, and a Masters of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

As Chief Technology Officer, Craig shapes Cohesity’s technical vision—and defines and executes a strategic roadmap for the company’s future. Craig brings extensive industry and public sector experience and expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to his role. Most recently, as the first Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) for the U.S. Department of Defense, Craig accelerated the adoption of data, analytics, digital solutions, and AI functions. Prior to the DoD, he held senior roles at several leading technology companies. He served as Head of Machine Learning at Lyft, Head of Machine Intelligence at Dropbox, and was a leader of numerous AI teams and initiatives at LinkedIn. Craig was also a tenured computer science professor at the Naval Postgraduate School specializing in natural language processing. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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.