Cohesity Leadership

As Chief Financial Officer, Robert manages Cohesity’s financial strategy as the software company expands its cloud services, redefines modern data management, and continues on a path of consistent and long-term growth. Robert’s 30 years of experience includes significant exposure leading finance and business organizations in data management, cloud, software, and subscription-based services companies. Most recently, Robert served as CFO at DataStax for nearly three years. Prior to that role, he was CFO at Pivotal Software, a cloud-based software company that was later acquired by VMware. O'Donovan has also held finance, operations and sales roles at Dell/EMC in Europe and Asia Pacific/Japan. Originally from Ireland, Robert studied at the Cork Institute of Technology, earning his ACCA accountancy qualification.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Michael is responsible for aligning programs and initiatives at Cohesity that best support the customer lifecycle, focusing on customer experience, revenue generation, and growth. Specifically, he has responsibility for all aspects of global sales and sales operations, channel partners, alliances, and systems engineering. Michael brings to Cohesity more than 25 years of global experience, with a major emphasis on data management, data analytics, and cloud-based solutions.
Prior to joining Cohesity, Michael was senior vice president of sales for the Americas at Veritas. Michael also served as executive vice president of global sales at Hitachi Data Systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from The College of New Jersey and an M.B.A. from Monmouth University.

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.

As Chief People Officer, Paul leads the team driving the key people strategies for Cohesity including talent acquisition, talent development, culture, engagement and people operations. Paul recently held a similar role at Databricks, and previously at Infinera and Nimble Storage where he was a key member of the exec teams that led both companies through successful IPOs and multiple years of revenue and headcount growth. Paul is originally from the UK and holds an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Management Science from the University of Aston.

Vineet has 15+ years of experience building distributed systems. Prior to Cohesity, Vineet was Senior Vice President, 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.

Apurv is passionate about building highly scalable systems. His career spans Bell Labs, several startups including GreenBorder (acquired by Google), and over 8 years at Google. He was also the Co-founder of ArkinNet. His most recent work includes architecting the current Search Ads Backend and redesigning the Ads Reporting Backend at Google, and building a NLP search engine for simplifying datacenter management at ArkinNet.

Apurv holds a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Lorenzo is a seasoned operations veteran with over a decade of experience leading go-to-market strategy for top technology companies. Prior to joining Cohesity, Lorenzo was the Sr. Director of Sales Operations and Go-to-Market Strategy for emerging businesses and indirect channels at VMware where he established, from the ground up, the sales operations of VMware Cloud Services. Lorenzo also held senior strategy positions at EMC and RSA and earlier in his career, he was a senior principal at the Boston Consulting Group where for 10 years he advised CXOs of Fortune 500 corporations across technology, industrial and pharmaceutical sectors.

Lorenzo holds a degree in Physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.

Andy brings 20 years of experience building world class support and services organizations. Prior to Cohesity, Andy was Vice President of Services Operations at FireEye responsible for support and security as a service. Prior to that Andy was Vice President of Support and Services for Data Domain later acquired by EMC, helping scale the business from $300M to over $1B. Andy's prior roles also include Vice President of Engineering Operations for the Backup and Recovery Division at EMC, Director of Product Management at VERITAS and General Manager of Multivendor Support for HP. Andy holds a Masters in Engineering from Stanford and a BS from Santa Clara University.

Michael bring 20 years of experience in leadership roles driving market disruptions through product and go-to-market innovations. Prior to joining us, Michael was the head of Cisco’s Corporate Development and Investments team focused on infrastructure software across datacenter & cloud. In that capacity, he led the expansion of Cisco’s product portfolio through acquisitions, investments & partnerships, focusing on disruptive software and subscription models. Prior to Cisco, Michael held senior positions as an executive, venture capitalist and operator, driving multiple technology companies to scale.

Michael holds a degree in Economics from Yale University, where he was a member of a national leading NCAA Rowing program.

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 Virginial School of Law.

Mohit Aron has over 15 years of experience in building scalable, high- performance distributed systems, and has been attributed as the father of hyperconvergence. Aron founded his current company Cohesity in 2013 and co-founded Nutanix in 2009. Prior to co-founding Nutanix, Aron was at Google as a lead developer on the Google File System engineering project.

In July 2016, CRN recognized Cohesity on the list of 10 Storage Emerging Vendors You Need To Know and listed as one of the Top 25 Disruptors of 2016 in August 2016.

Aron graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University with a focus on distributed systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi India.

Bill is a technologist specializing in large-scale computing and networking systems with general management experience. Bill joined Sequoia Capital in late 2011 where he works as a partner and coach to founders and help them build effective technology-centric organizations; while at Sequoia, he served as an advisor to Google until 2015. His career in computer science spans more than two decades. He began his post-graduate career starting with individual research contributions in computational science and engineering (for semiconductor and circuit simulation, Raman optical amplifiers, convective fluid flow) and computer systems. Bill helped create and guide the development of numerous distributed systems, IP security projects, and applications of modeling and formal verification methods as well as converged (voice/data) network software, access, and switching products. More recently, he has contributed to large-scale Web service systems and products as well as client software. Now, he is an investor in and coach for developing companies.

Bill holds a B.S.& M.S. mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a M.S. & Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford.

Dan Warmenhoven is the former executive chairman and CEO of NetApp. Dan served as chief executive officer from 1994 to 2009 and executive chairman of NetApp from 2009 to 2014. Under Dan's leadership, NetApp grew to become a multibillion-dollar company and a recognized market leader in networked storage, a concept the company pioneered. Dan led the company's initial public offering in November 1995.

NetApp is consistently listed in the top 20 of FORTUNE magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work for in America and was ranked #1 in 2009. NetApp is also included in FORTUNE magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies" and "America's Largest Corporations" lists as well as in Forbes magazine's "400 Best Big Companies in America" list. NetApp is included in both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes.

In August 2009, Dan received the Morgan Stanley Leadership Award for Global Commerce. He is a director of Bechtel Group, Inc. and Palo Alto Networks. Dan is also on the board of the Tech Museum of Innovation as well as a trustee of Bellarmine College Preparatory, both in San Jose, California. In June 2007, Dan received an honorary degree from Santa Clara University for his dedication to global business and technology leadership and in 2006 was named one of the "50 Most Powerful People in Networking" by Network World. In 2004, he won the prestigious "National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year" award, and in 2001 BusinessWeek named Dan one of its "Top 25 Managers" for the year.

Previously, Dan served as chairman, president, and CEO of Network Equipment Technologies (N.E.T.), a telecommunications manufacturer. He is a veteran of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), where he held senior management positions, including general manager of the Information Networks group. Prior to working at HP, Dan was employed for 13 years at IBM Corporation.

Dan holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, with honors, from Princeton University.

Jonathan Chadwick has over 30 years of experience both in the US and the UK and has lived in Silicon Valley for the past 25 years. He has worked for some of the most iconic technology companies including McAfee, Skype, Cisco Systems and VMware, where he served as executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer throughout his four years there, and has a broad background in strategy, mergers and acquisitions, operational and financial management and has extensive team leadership experience.

Chadwick is currently a board member and advisor to a number of public and private companies including Cognizant, F5, and ServiceNow and some of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing companies, such as Elastic, Tanium and Zoom. Chadwick is a Chartered Accountant in England and holds an honors degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Bath, UK.

Deep Nishar, the Senior Managing Partner at the SoftBank Vision Fund, has more than 20 years of experience helping to build and grow successful software and internet businesses. Representative investments include 10X Genomics, Guardant Health, Improbable.io, Mapbox, Slack, OSIsoft, Cohesity and Zymergen.

From 2009 to 2014, Deep served as the senior vice president of products and user experience at LinkedIn. During his time at LinkedIn, the team grew membership from 32 million to 347 million, revenue from $78 million to $2.2 billion and LinkedIn became a top 20 US and top 25 global site.

Before LinkedIn, Deep worked at Google from 2003 to 2009, where he headed product strategy for the Asia-Pacific region, led the company’s mobile initiatives, and built the systems used for managing Google's global customer base.

Deep holds an MBA with highest honors from Harvard Business School, a MSEE from The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a B. Tech with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Carl Eschenbach is a partner at Sequoia, where he focuses on infrastructure technologies, cloud, and SaaS. He also provides operating expertise to Sequoia's portfolio companies. Prior to Sequoia, Carl was President and COO of VMware, where he helped grow the company from $31M in his first full year to $7B in revenues and from 200 people to 20,000. Prior to joining VMware, Carl was Vice President of North America Sales at Inktomi, and held various sales leadership positions with 3Com, EMC and Lucent Technologies. He is passionate about leadership, culture and values of both teams and companies.

Randy Glein is a founder and partner at DFJ Growth. His career spans more than 30 years as a venture capital investor, operating executive and entrepreneur. Randy has led investments in many innovative technology leaders, including Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN), Box (NYSE: BOX), Performics (Google), Ring (Amazon), SpaceX, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), Tumblr (Yahoo), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), Yammer (Microsoft), and Yodle (Web.com). Recent investments include Boring Company, Cohesity, Innovium, Mapbox, Splice, Sumo Logic and Yellowbrick. Prior to DFJ, Randy was CFO of FeedBurner, a DFJ portfolio company acquired by Google. He also played instrumental roles in the formation and development of DIRECTV and XM Radio. Randy began his career as a systems engineer at Hughes Space & Communications. Forbes has named Randy to its annual Midas List five times, including most recently in 2019. The New York Times / CB Insights has named Randy one of the Top 100 venture capital investors four consecutive years. He holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and a BSEE with high honors from the University of Florida.

Janey Hoe is a Vice President of Cisco Investments. Previously, she held multiple product management, technical marketing, and business development leadership roles at Cisco, operating multi-billion dollar product lines as well as pioneering new products in switching, security, data center, and video collaboration. Along with her team, she was recognized as a finalist for the Pioneer Award, the highest honor for innovation at Cisco. Prior to Cisco, Janey was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Before McKinsey, Janey worked on network protocol research with MIT LCS Laboratory, AT&T Laboratories, and HP Laboratories.

Her work on TCP/IP performance improvements has been widely implemented and referenced.

Janey holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer sciences from U.C. Berkeley and MIT, respectively.

Ashu works with startups across the enterprise stack. He is particularly excited about how machine learning and deep learning are reinventing existing software categories and creating new consumer experiences.

Ashu serves on the boards of Anvilogic, Arize, Coefficient, Cohesity, Conviva, Eightfold, Fortanix, Layer9, OpsMx, Skyflow, and Turing. In addition, Ashu was responsible for Foundation Capital’s investments in Aggregate Knowledge, Custora, FreeWheel, TubeMogul, and Tubi.tv.

Ashu is passionate about helping technical founders scale as CEOs. His podcast on that topic, B2B a CEO, has featured Eric Yuan, Jennifer Tejada, Aaron Levie, and Tien Tzuo.

Before joining Foundation Capital in 2008, Ashu was the general manager for Microsoft’s online-advertising business and led field marketing for the software businesses. Previously, Ashu worked at McKinsey & Company, helping technology companies scale their go-to-market efforts.

Paul leads Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, HPE’s venture investment and solutions program, and is responsible for driving Pathfinder’s charter of Insights, Investments, and Solutions. He currently serves as a board observer with Barefoot Networks, Shape Security, Synack, Cohesity, Hedvig, and Fungible.

Prior to joining HPE, Paul co-founded and helped lead Xova Labs, a company focused on start-up formation and early stage incubation. At Xova, Paul helped launch and lead companies focused on leveraging the Mobile and Cloud technology disruptions, including Mist Systems and Encaenia.

Before Xova, Paul was a Director in the Corporate Development group at Cisco Systems where he focused on acquisitions, strategy, and venture investments. Paul’s areas of responsibility included Security, Small Business, SaaS, and Borderless Networking portfolios. Notable transactions include Cisco’s acquisitions of IronPort, MI Secure, and ScanSafe, and investments in ActOn, Appfolio, RingCentral, Guardium, and Mashery. Paul joined Cisco in 2001 as member of the Corporate Finance team.

Paul received both JD and MBA degrees from Indiana University and a BA from the University of Illinois. He spends his free time swinging golf clubs and baseball bats.

Karim leads GV's investments in enterprise software, data analytics, and security. He brings over a decade of operational and investment experience to his role. He initially joined Google's corporate development team in 2008, the group responsible for all mergers and acquisitions and has been at GV since inception.

Prior to Google, Karim was a venture capitalist at Atlas Venture, where he worked on investments in software and Internet infrastructure. Previously, he was director of New Ventures at Level 3 Communications, responsible for evaluating new business opportunities and has led product development for the company's voice services. Earlier in his career, Karim held various product and marketing roles at Intel, initially on the i486^™, and later as product manager for the Pentium® Processor. He started his career at Siemens as a software engineer working on the first vehicle navigation system for BMW.

Quinn Li is Vice President & Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures. In this role, Quinn oversees Qualcomm's $1 billion strategic venture investment portfolio of over 140 investments. He currently serves as a board member or observer in AMEC, Brain Corp, Enovix, OneWeb, Placemeter, RetailNext, Streetline, Tango, and Verve Wireless. Previously Quinn has led investments in A123 Systems (AONE), Consert (acquired by Landis+Gyr), InvenSense (INVN), PowerCloud Systems (acquired by Comcast), and Siimpel (acquired by Tessera).

Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures, Quinn held various engineering and management roles in the wireless industry. Most recently, he worked in product management and business development at IBM Systems and Technology Group. Previously, he spent several years in Broadcom and the wireless infrastructure group at Lucent Technologies.

Quinn received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MBA from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Stuart Peterson is the Co-founder and a Senior Partner of ARTIS Ventures. Before forming ARTIS in 2001, Stuart was a Managing Director of The Cypress Funds, where he was responsible for the firm's technology sector investments and strategy. Stuart was a Vice President and Co-Portfolio Manager with Portfolio Advisory Services, focused on growth company investment management. Stuart currently serves on the board of directors for Stem CentRx, a stem cell centric cancer therapy company. He is also a board advisor for Omicia, a genomic interpretation platform. Stuart currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the SF MOMA and is actively involved in the Tipping Point Community and MCDS.

Stuart received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and his M.B.A. in Analytic Finance from The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.