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This list showcases the top United States based Director operating in the Infrastructure space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Daniel Docter
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Daniel Docter is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, where he leads investments for Pivotal, Virtustream, and the Dell-EMC Enterprise Hybrid and Cloud Native Solutions Group. Daniel’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments in AI and ML/DL, big/fast data and data analytics, cloud management and orchestration, CI/CD, and serverless architecture. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Daniel was Director at Intel Capital where he led investment initiatives in Cloud (Open Data Center), Software Defined Networking, Data Center Services, and High Performance Computing. His investments covered services, infrastructure, management software, compute and storage systems, and ICs and include Switch SuperNap, Tier 3 (acquired by CenturyLink), Passave (acquired by PMCS), E2O Communications (acquired by JDSU), Cyoptics (acquired by Avago), Stratalight Communications (acquired by Opnext), Cortina Systems (acquired by InPhi), Overture Networks (acquired by Adva), Fulcrum Microsystems (acquired by Intel), Adaptivity (acquired by EMC), Virident (acquired by Western Digital), and Aspeed (IPO on Taiwan Stock Exchange). Dan also played a key role in several Intel acquisitions, including Fulcrum, New Focus tunable laser group, Stratos LW transceiver group) and the sale of the Optical Products Group to Emcore. Before Intel Capital, Daniel was with Merrill Lynch as an adviser for technology company clients involved in IPOs and M&A transactions. Before Merrill Lynch, Daniel spent 11 years at AT&T Bell Labs and Hughes Research Labs working on optical and RF communications applications. He has more than 50 journal publications and 10 patents. Daniel holds a PhD from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is based in Palo Alto, California. Daniel represents Dell Technologies Capital on the board of directors of the following companies: BlueData, MongoDB, Cloud66, Packet Host, GraphCore, Redis Labs, Iguazio Systems, and Striim.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Deepak Jeevankumar
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Deepak JeevanKumar is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, where he has investments in cybersecurity. Deepak’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments across a wide-spectrum of security technologies and solutions. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Deepak spent nearly 7 years at General Catalyst where he helped build the firm‘s west-coast presence and was closely involved in Push Computing (acquired by MobileIron), Altiscale (acquired by SAP), Illumio, Menlo Security, Anomali (FKA ThreatStream), Minio and RiskRecon investments. Deepak is a supercomputer designer turned venture capitalist, with 15 years of technology and investment experience. He gained his engineering expertise at Sun Microsystems where he started as a sales engineer and ended-up as a lead supercomputing architect. He was also an intern at the Yale Investments Office. He holds a B. Eng. from the National University of Singapore, an S.M. from the Singapore-MIT Alliance and an MBA from Yale School of Management. Deepak is based in Palo Alto, California.
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Raman Khanna
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Raman Khanna is The Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital.
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Tyler Jewell
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Tyler is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital. He previously founded Codenvy and was a partner with Toba Capital managing investments in middleware and application development. He sits on the board of WSO2, Sauce Labs, ShiftMobility and eXo Platform. He has investments in ZeroTurnaround, InfoQ, SourceGraph, and AppHarbor and is an advisor for SD Elements. He is the author of three books on Java, including OReilly’s Java Web Services.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Gregg Adkin
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Gregg Adkin is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, where he leads investments for the Client Solutions Group and the Infrastructure Solutions Group. Gregg’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments in Storage, Servers, Networking, Converged Infrastructure, Data Protection, IoT, Cloud Native and Extended Reality. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Gregg led Business Development for EMC’s Storage Division, where he was responsible for Strategy, M&A and Partnerships. He has extensive experience in venture capital, business development, M&A and operations. Gregg joined EMC in 2010 from Valley Ventures, where he was a General Partner responsible for managing IT investments. Prior to Valley Ventures, Gregg held multiple executive leadership roles at Intel in sales, marketing and Intel Capital. Gregg holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Gregg represents Dell Technologies Capital on board of directors of following companies: CNEX Labs, FogHorn Systems, Druva, Nantero, EdicoGenome and Nasuni.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
David Parenti
Senior Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Dave Parenti joined the Dell Technologies Capital Corporate Development team in 2016 and provides technical thought leadership for both venture investment and M&A activity and helps develop inorganic strategy. Prior to joining Dell Technologies Capital, Dave held technical leadership roles within the midrange storage division of EMC. Before EMC, Dave worked at Sun Microsystems designing and developing systems software for Sun’s storage division as a result of the acquisition of storage virtualization startup Pirus Networks in 2002, where he was a member of technical staff. Dave holds a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is co-author on several patents related to storage systems and management software. He is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Dave represents Dell Technologies Capital on the board of directors of the following companies: Primary Data.
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Don Butler
Managing Director of Thomvest Ventures
Don’s 20 year career spans a variety of roles with emerging growth technology companies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Apsalar, Avalanche, Axcient, Kabbage, Milyoni, Netbase, Vungle, and YottaMark. Don’s past investments have included FlashSoft (acquired by SanDisk), GuardianEdge (acquired by Symantec), and Okena (acquired by Cisco). Before joining Thomvest, Don led the Asian business development efforts for several start-up companies in the software and networking industries as part of his work with Asia Pacific Ventures. Previously, Don was an Analyst with Lehman Brothers, where he worked with clients in the software and semiconductor industries. Don received a B.A. in Chinese from UCLA and M.A.s in both East Asian Studies and Political Science from Stanford.
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David Hallinan
Director of Content of Replicated
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Robert Corbin
Director, Head of B2B Marketing Science and Infrastructure of Dell EMC
Rob Corbin leads Digital Marketing Analytics at EMC Corporation. With over 18 years of experience in marketing, sales, and consulting, he specializes in creating rapid time-to-value solutions for companies. His big data predictive analytics and decision systems experience spans the transportation, finance, and technology industries. Rob has a BSE in Operations Research from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
James DiStasio
Member of the Board of Directors of Dell EMC
DiStasio has been a director of EMC since March 2010. From January 2003 until his retirement in January 2007,DiStasio served as Senior Vice Chairman and Americas Chief Operating Officer of Ernst & Young LLP, a professional services organization. He spent over 38 years at Ernst & Young in various management positions, having been elected as a partner in 1977. DiStasio is a member of the Board of Trustees of Northeast Utilities (d/b/a Eversource Energy) (where he is Chair of the Finance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee and the Executive Committee). DiStasio holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois. DiStasio brings to the Board extensive financial, accounting and consulting expertise, including a deep understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting rules and regulations, acquired over the course of his 38-year career at one of the world’s leading assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services firms. He has significant experience overseeing, from an independent auditor’s perspective, the financial reporting processes of large public companies in a variety of industries with a global presence. Through his leadership roles at E&Y, including as COO of the Americas,DiStasio gained substantial management and operational experience. In addition,DiStasio’s service on another public company board provides him with valuable experience.
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Jennifer Wemstrom
Senior Director of Life Sciences Product Management of Dell EMC
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Andrew Fenselau
Senior Director Of Product Marketing of Dell EMC
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Matt Cowger
Senior Director, Global Solutions Marketing of Dell EMC
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Matt Cowger
Senior Director, Global Solutions Marketing of Dell EMC
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Russ Greene
Senior Director, Channel Business Development and Productivity of Dell EMC
Responsible for channel pre and post sales technical enablement (resellers, distributors, alliances, service providers and OEM’s) customer education sell-through, Sales GTM programs and campaigns, Education Services strategy development, acquisition integration, and business analytics.
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Scott Delandy
Technology Director of Dell EMC
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Laddie Suk
Director, Digital Transformation and Industry Solutions of Dell EMC
Laddie is the global industry lead for the Dell EMC Professional Services practice for Digital Transformation. Laddie has extensive experience spanning multiple industries—including Communications, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services and Healthcare. Reporting in to Laddie is a practice devoted to the transformation of firms in these industries. In his Dell EMC leadership role, Laddie has successfully led strategic and transformational initiatives for global enterprises. Serving as a partner at several major consulting firms honed his strategic and business skills, while his time as Network CIO for Verizon and Director for AT&T and Bell Labs enabled him to further develop his Communications Industry savvy. His deep domain experience puts Laddie in demand as a speaker at various industry gatherings, and he’s been quoted extensively in numerous publications including the Financial Times and Telephony. Laddie holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from the Northwestern University and currently resides in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Stefan Voss
Senior Director, Product Management – Dell Cyber Recovery of Dell EMC
Stefan Voss is the Senior Director of Product Management for Dell Cyber Recovery.
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Chhandomay Mandal
Director and Product Marketing of Dell EMC
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Chhandomay Mandal
Director and Product Marketing of Dell EMC
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Dan Diephouse
Director of Product Management of MuleSoft
Dan Diephouse is the CEO of Cargocast. He was a product manager at MuleSoft for Mule iON, the world’s first integration Platform as a Service. There he’s focused on helping connect everything together: cloud services, applications, databases, mobile devices – even toasters. He will only rest once everything has an API and data flows seamlessly between them. He has a over 10 years of experience in integration and middleware spaces including co-founding Apache CXF, an open source web services framework; launching Tcat, an enterprise Tomcat application server;, helping shape Mule, the most popular open source ESB, and consulting with many of the world’s top
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Mark Burton
Member of the Board of Directors of MuleSoft
Mark Burton has 30 years of sales and marketing experience, highlighted by executive sales roles at MySQL AB and Informatica. At MySQL, as EVP of Worldwide Sales and Alliances, he contributed as the sales executive building a worldwide sales engine monetizing the MySQL open source brand and culminating in a $1 billion acquisition by Sun Microsystems in February 2008. At Informatica, Mark held roles as senior vice president of Americas Sales and eventually group vice president of Worldwide Sales and Alliances. His contribution helped grow Informatica from $12m to over $150m in sales resulting in a successful IPO in April 1999 and a secondary offering in September 2000. Other positions include several vice president of sales and marketing roles in early stage companies, executive-in-residence at Partech International Venture Partners, and regional sales management at Oracle, among others. Mark serves on the board of directors of open-source leaders Zend and MuleSource as well as on the advisory board for Jaspersoft.
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Jake Morgan
Senior Director of Solutions Engineering – RCG – North America; Office of the CTO of MuleSoft
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Ahyoung An
Director, Solutions of MuleSoft
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Valentina Alaria
Director Product Management, Cloud Native Apps of VMware
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Tom Hite
Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO of VMware
Tom Hite is the Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO at VMware.
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Sumit Verdi
Director Product Strategy, Telco Cloud of VMware
Sumit is part of the VMware Telco NFV team leading Service Assurance strategy and architecture for telco providers; helping transition virtual network functions and solutions to modernized 5G-ready cloud platforms. He brings 15+ years of experience in telco solutions innovation. Prior, he spent 5+ years creating solutions for telco network intelligence and predictive analytics. At Vodafone he defined solutions, strategies, and architectures for handset, RAN, EPC, IMS, and Enterprise platforms.
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Amelia Estwick
Director of Threat Research of VMware
Dr. Amelia Estwick has joined VMware as the director of threat research, where she is responsible for leading VMware’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU), a global multidisciplinary team focused on large-scale malware and telemetry analysis, malware reversal, threat hunting, and applied threat intelligence. Dr. Estwick is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of combined military and government IT experience within the U.S. intelligence community, including 10 years directly leading strategic and tactical cyber threat operations at the National Security Agency Threat Operations Center (NTOC). Prior to joining VMware, Dr. Estwick was the Director of the National Cybersecurity Institute at Excelsior College. Dr. Estwick is a National Physical Sciences Consortium Fellow, a U.S. Army Gulf War Veteran and is frequently highlighted as an influential woman in cyber, most recently recognized as one of the Top 100 Women Know Cyber by Cybersecurity Ventures and 2021 Women Veteran Trailblazer by the Veteran Affairs Center for Women Veterans. Dr. Estwick is the vice president for the Women in Cybersecurity Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, a regional professional development organization established to promote, educate, recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity.
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Tasha Drew
Director of Product Incubation of VMware
Tasha has been an innovative product leader in Silicon Valley for over a decade. She is Director of Product Incubation in the Office of the CTO’s Advanced Technology Group at VMware. She is co-chair of the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-Tenancy and co-chair of the Kubernetes SIG Usability. Previously she launched VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for vSphere, and was a member of the team that launched Project Pacific, Tanzu for SDDC, and vSphere with Tanzu at VMware. Tasha has also held product roles at Chef, Rentlytics, Engine Yard and Lockheed Martin. She was a core maintainer of Chef Habitat. Tasha holds a B.S. in Computer Science from USC and an M.S. in Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from RPI.
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Guru Shashikumar
Director of Product Management of VMware
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Jacob Rapp
Director & Lead Technologist, Networking and Security of VMware
Jacob Rapp is a director and lead technologist at VMware.
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Krish Sivakumar
Senior Director of Product Management of VMware
Krish Sivakumar is a senior director of product management at VMware.
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Hari Kannan
Director Product Management of VMware
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Kiran Rao
Senior Director of Product Management and Strategy of VMware
Kiran Rao is the VP Products and Strategy of Grainite.
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Shikha Mittal
Director, Product Management & Strategy of VMware
Shikha Mittal serves as director of product management and strategy at VMware.
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Pooja Patel
Director, Technical Product Management, NSX of VMware
Pooja Patel serves as director of technical product management at VMware.
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Francis Chow
Sr. Director, Strategy, Planning & Operations, Chief of Staff, Storage & Availability Business Unit of VMware
Francis is the Sr. Director of Strategy, Planning and Operations of the Storage and Availability Business Unit (SABU) at VMware, responsible for GTM planning, business intelligence and business operations for SABU. He has been at VMware for 3 years. Previously he spent 20 years in the Semiconductor industry with leadership experience in engineering, marketing, sales and general management. He holds an MBA and an MSEE from UC Berkeley, and a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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John McLoughlin
Director Product Strategy of VMware
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Nikhil Kelshikar
Sr. Director, NSX Product Management of VMware
Nikhil Kelshikar is a Sr. Director responsible for technical product management in VMware’s networking and security business unit. He has many years of experience in data center networking and virtualization space having worked on products such as VMware NSX and Cisco Nexus switching line. Prior to VMware, Nikhil was at Cisco Systems in the Data Center business unit. Nikhil has a MS in Computer Science from the University of South Florida.
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Craig Bowman
Sr. Director – VMWARE – Federal of VMware
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Percy Wadia
Director Product Management of VMware
Percy Wadia serves as director of product management at VMware.
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John Premus
Sr. Director Customer Intelligence of VMware
John Premus is a Sr Director of Customer Intelligence at VMware. He is a goal-oriented technology systems executive with over thirty years of experience in senior management positions across the financial and high tech Industries. John is customer-centric and focused on leveraging predictive analytics to determine near-term and long-term customer value. He proactively engages with cross-functional teams to deliver critical business insights that drive adoption, recurring revenue and renewals. John has a track record of building and leading highly effective, culturally-diverse teams that consistently overachieve and deliver excellent results.
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Dhruv Jain
Sr. Director of Product Marketing of VMware
Dhruv Jain As the CEO and co-founder of OpsClarity, Dhruv Jain is passionate about transforming IT operations by bringing an intelligent approach to systems management and monitoring. Prior to founding OpsClarity, Dhruv ran Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Cisco Systems where he helped to drive technology and product strategy for the $7B+ Data Center, Virtualization and Cloud business. Dhruv holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton.
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David Mattes
Director of Engineering of VMware
David Mattes has been Tempered Networks Chief Technical Officer since December 2012. He founded Tempered Networks (formerly named Asguard Networks) in 2012 to create standards-based products that address the challenge of managing connectivity and information security for industrial control systems (ICS). Prior to Asguard Networks, Mattes spent 13 years in Boeing’s R&D organization. At Boeing, he focused on ICS security issues and solved the challenge of segmenting connectivity for ICS devices into private networks, while ensuring secure connectivity to and through Boeing’s enterprise networks. Mattes was the co-creator and technical and implementation lead on an architecture that not only addressed Boeing’s stringent InfoSec governance and security requirements, but also satisfied the needs of end users. Mattes has patents pending in distributed network configuration and orchestration. He holds an M.S.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico.
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Stephanie Gunter
Director and Chief of Staff of VMware
Stephanie Gunter serves as director and chief of staff at VMware.
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Sheldon D’Paiva
Director of Product Marketing of VMware
Sheldon D’Paiva is a Director of Product Marketing at VMware where he is responsible for VMware Horizon. Previously, Sheldon has led product marketing and product management in the areas of virtualization, storage, and enterprise software. Sheldon is a regular speaker at industry events and conferences such as VMworld.
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Ernesto Humpierres
Director, Customer Success Strategy & Planning of VMware
Ernesto Humpierres is the VP of Finance and Lending for Skills Fund. He was formerly the founder at Socrex.
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Grant Shipley
Sr. Director, Kubernetes of VMware
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Sachin Thakkar
Sr Director, R&D of VMware
Sachin Thakkar is the Sr Director of R&D who has helped design and build the vShield, NSX, HCX and Telco Cloud offerings over the last several years at VMware. Currently, Sachin’s role is focused on delivering a 5G cloud platform to provide secure pre-integrated 5G network services VMware clouds – public and private. Sachin has an intimate understanding of customer design best practices of VMware solutions and how they integrate into modern datacenter architectures.
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Tim Van Herck
Director of Technical Product Management of VMware
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Vamsi Gunturu
Sr. Director R&D of VMware
Vamsi Gunturu serves as a senior director of R&D at VMware.
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Scott Kelley
Director Product Management of VMware
Scott Kelley is the Director Product Management at VMware.
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Wade Holmes
Director of Technical Product Management of VMware
Wade Holmes serves as leader of Google Cloud Security and Resilience Framework
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Kimberly White
Director – Worldwide Solution Providers of VMware
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Rakesh Radhakrishnan Nair
Director, Product Management of VMware
Rakesh Radhakrishnan Nair has 15+ years of experience in product management, consulting and software development specializing in Software Defined Storage and Big Data. Rakesh currently focuses on product management of Virtual SAN. Rakesh was previously responsible for Big Data Analytics products at VMware and Pivotal. In the past, Rakesh has held various engineering leadership and product management positions at EMC and a series of storage startups in the Valley.
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Matt Dreyer
Director Product Management of VMware
Matt Dreyer serves as director product management at VMware.
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Michael Gandy
Director Marketing and Business Development of VMware
Michael Gandy serves as director of marketing and business development at VMware.
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Hemant Sahani
Director of Product Management of VMware
Hemant Sahani is a Director of Product Management at VMware, bringing over 15 years of expertise in enterprise mobility management, mobile apps/platforms, end-point data protection, software as a service and enterprise content management. Prior to joining VMware, Hemant held Product Management and Engineering roles at Good Technology, Iron Mountain Digital, and EMC Corp. Hemant holds an MBA from Babson College and a bachelor’s degree in Computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Madhup Gulati
Director of Product Management of VMware
Madhup Gulati serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Larry McDonough
Director, Product Management & Ecosystem Engineering of VMware
Larry McDonough is the Director, Product Management & Ecosystem Engineering at VMware.
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Amanda Blevins
Sr. Director & Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO of VMware
Amanda Blevins, Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO at VMware, ensures the success of customers and partners through customer intimacy, field engagement, and unifying R&D. She leads the Office of the CTO Global Field and CTO Ambassador Programs to bring innovation and change to VMware. She has successfully run programs that develop stronger partnerships with VMware customers and programs that enable VMware employees on technology, trends, and customer experiences.
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Salil Suri
Director, Product Management of VMware
Salil Suriserves as director of product management at VMware.
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Pontus Rydin
Director, Technology Evangelism of VMware
Pontus Rydin serves as director of technology evangelism at VMware.
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Wendy Cartee
Senior Director, Cloud Networking Product Marketing of VMware
Wendy Cartee is VP of Product Management and Marketing at PLUMgrid, Inc., the leading innovator of secure cloud infrastructure for enterprises building private and public clouds. With over 15 years of product management and marketing experience at prior companies such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and HP Cloud, Wendy has defined solutions for data centers, WAN, Internet, and mobile infrastructure that generated billions in revenue. An avid technology and customer advocate, Wendy has 8 U.S. patents in networking technologies, all of which are deployed in some of the largest networks. Wendy is listed in the CCIE Hall of Fame as the first 100 CCIEs in the world. She has a BSEE from Cal Poly, MBA from Santa Clara University, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program from the Graduate School of Business.
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Satish Katpally
Global Director of Product Management/Marketing Strategy of VMware
Satish is a technologist with an entrepreneurial soul. He is a patent holder with experience in the data-networking/telecom, data-center, Cloud/XaaS, IoT and clean-tech industries. He is interested in consulting, product strategy/marketing, business development, venture investing, private equity and M&A roles in hi-tech and clean-tech industries. Satish was a key contributor in R&D and product management at successful semiconductor startups, Sandburst ((acquired by Broadcom) and Maker Communications (acquired by Conexant/Mindspeed Technologies). Satish was also software architect at Juniper Networks developing broadband, data-center and cloud infrastructure products for service providers. He has a strong technical/engineering background in software, embedded computing and B2B product marketing. He is also experienced in data analytics and infrastructure for big-data analysis applied to marketing and strategic insights. He has experience as a strategy and marketing consultant working with Global Strategy teams in Fortune 100 firms such as Johnson Controls and Energy Conversion Devices. Satish also has investor experience at Frankel Commercialization Fund at the University of Michigan, evaluating and investing in startups. Satish’s clean-tech experience includes li-ion battery business models for consumer, stationary and automotive segments, electric vehicle market analysis for China and US at Johnson Controls and algal bio-fuel market analysis and business cases for startups. He also founded a research firm that focused on evaluating risk and opportunities in the water technologies and industry. Most recently, Satish was a Senior Marketing Manager at Cisco. He supported Cisco’s IoT (Internet of Things), SDN (Software Defined Networking) including the Enterprise switching, routing and mobility portfolio. Currently, he is a global director of product management/strategy/marketing at VMware focused on networking, security, SD-WAN, and containers for the cloud provider market segment. He holds B.E and M.S degrees in computer science and engineering, and an MBA with high distinction and a Zell Scholar award from the University of Michigan.
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Peter Keilty
Director, IoT and Edge Solution Engineering of VMware
Peter Keilty serves as director of IoT and edge solution engineering at VMware.
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Matthew Weiner
Director, Technology Partner Engagement Services of VMware
Matthew Weiner is an 8 year veteran at VMware and the leader of the Technology Alliance Partner program (TAP), the VMware PKS Solution Competency and the Master Services Competency – Cloud Native.
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Andrew Voltmer
Director of Product Management of VMware
Andrew Voltmer serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Terence Gleeson
Senior Director of VMware
Terence Gleeson recently joined CenturyLink’s Strategic Partnerships and Channel Operations Leadership Team as Vice President of Strategic Partner Alliances. An established sales leader, Terence brings more than 20 years of experience in various roles in sales and management supporting large business and government customers with advanced technology solutions. In his role, Terence and his organization work to deepen and expand the relationships with the industry-leading technology partners whose technology, software, and services support the CenturyLink solutions and platforms that we deliver to the marketplace. This includes working with CenturyLink’s partners and internal organizations to leverage and expand our reach into and across existing and new markets and channels. Terence joined CenturyLink in 2001 and served as a sales overlay for application development services. Most recently, he served as Director of Strategic Alliances for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). He lives in San Diego with his wife Candice.
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Tai Tran
Director Product Management, Cloud Security of VMware
Tai Tran serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Alex Jauch
Director, Product Management of VMware
Alex Jauch serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Swapnil Hendre
Director, Solutions Engineering and Design of VMware
Swapnil Hendre serves as director of solutions engineering and design at VMware.
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Eric Nielsen
Sr Director, Social Media & Communities of VMware
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Eryn Muetzel
Director of Product Management of VMware
Eryn Muetzel serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Nimish Desai
Director, Technical Product Management of VMware
Nimish Desai serves as director of technical product management at VMware.
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Cathal Cleary
Director, CPE Services Management of VMware
Cathal Cleary serves as director of service management at VMware.
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Alain Roy
Director of Engineering of VMware
Alain Roy is the Director of Engineering at VMware.
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Ramkumar Venketaramani
Director of Product Management of VMware
Ramkumar Venketaramani is the Director of Product Management at VMware.
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Marcus Phipps
Director, Partner Go-to-Market and Sales Acceleration of VMware
Marcus Phipps serves as director of partner sales acceleration at VMware.
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Joe Forjette
Senior Product Manager – vCloud Director of VMware
Joe Forjette is a senior product manager at VMware.
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Taruna Gandhi
Director of Product Marketing of VMware
Taruna Gandhi serves as director of product marketing at VMware.
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Ken Lee
Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Cloud Automation of VMware
Ken Lee is a senior director of product marketing at VMware.
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Alain Debost
Director, Global Partner Development Funds of VMware
Alain Debost is the Director of World-Wide Development Funds at VMware. He is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in global IT companies in Finance, Marketing, Go-To-Market, Partner Sales roles to bring disruptive products and solutions, both hardware and software, and Programs to market.
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David Overbeek
Director of Technical Marketing of VMware
David Overbeek is a director of technical marketing at VMware.
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Weiguo He
Director, Product Enablement & Technical Marketing of VMware
Weiguo runs the product enablement & technical marketing organization in the HCI BU at VMware, responsible for technical content, enablement, solutions, and customer POCs. Weiguo’s 20 year IT career includes experiences in software engineering, applications, virtualization, cloud, and particularly storage. Prior to VMware, Weiguo spent 11 years at EMC working on a wide range of SAN, NAS, and data protection products.
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John Blake
Director of VMware
John is the Director of Cloud Architecture at VMware OCTO. He specializes in cloud computing, enterprise architecture, and cross-domain transformation, helping customers derive business value from advanced technologies. In his current role at VMware, John is responsible for defining a range of private, hybrid and public cloud reference architectures to enable enterprise customers to design & adopt an end-to-end software-defined infrastructure that enables scale, velocity, and security.
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Ninad Desai
Director of Product Management, VMware Telco Cloud, 5G Infrastructure – Core and Edge/RAN of VMware
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Joel Leichnetz
Director, Business Development; Office of the CTO of VMware
Joel Leichnetz serves as director of business development at VMware.
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Michael Haag
Director, Product Marketing – Cloud Software of VMware
Michael Haag serves as director of product marketing at VMware.
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Emad Zand
Director of Product Management of VMware
Emad has several years of product management experience in the cloud, security and mobile space. He is currently a Product Management Director at VMware Cloud Native Application Business Unit. Prior to VMware, Emad worked as a Senior Product Manager at Akamai and managed the development of Kona Site Defender, an integrated web application firewall and DDoS mitigation solution.
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Sesh Sayani
Product Management Director of VMware
Sesh Sayani serves as product management director at VMware.
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Chris McCain
Director of Product Management, Networking & Security of VMware
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Jason Roszak
Sr. Director Product Management of VMware
Jason Roszak serves as senior director of product management at VMware.
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Simon Genzer
Product Line Manager – vCloud Director, Cloud Provider Program of VMware
Simon Genzer is a product line manager at VMware.
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Bill Hawkins
Director, ISV partners, Healthcare of VMware
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Prab Kalra
Director of Product Management, VMware Cloud on AWS of VMware
Prab Kalra serves as director of product management at VMware.
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Christopher Logan
Director Healthcare Industry Strategy of VMware
Christopher Logan joined VMware in October, 2015, and in his role he is responsible enabling healthcare clients to achieve their strategic outcomes through the implementation of VMware’s solutions. Chris most recently was the Chief Information Security Officer for Care New England Health System located in Providence, Rhode Island, where his role was providing security and technology leadership and enabling positive business outcomes for the organization and its partners. Mr. Logan has been in the IT community for over 18 years were his main focus has been delivering Information Security and Privacy in both an operational and strategic capacity, spanning both public and private sector organizations. He has also worked in security leadership roles at Lifespan Corporation, Century Bank, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he served in the United States Marine Corps. Chris is also a professor at Providence College in their school of business, where he provides instruction to graduate students on the management of technology and operations and service management. He holds multiple industry certifications which include the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium as well as an MBA from Bryant University. Mr. Logan has assisted the organizations that he has served by architecting systems and solutions that address their strategic, financial and operational objectives. He has extensive leadership experience in the areas of information security, privacy, compliance, continuity planning, standards adoption and implementation, vendor management and IT leadership. He is a past advisory board member for multiple technology solution providers and is a frequent speaker on topics related to information security and privacy.
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Nestor Dutko
Director, R&D of VMware
Nestor is the engineering manager responsible for bringing vSAN Data Protection to life. He has extensive experience in storage, disaster recovery and systems management from his time at VMware, Oracle and Digital Equipment Corporation.
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Simone Morellato
Director, Technical Product Management of VMware
Simone Morellato serves as director of technical product management at VMware.
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Jeff McGrath
Senior Director Product Marketing of VMware
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Scott Salyer
Director, Enablement Business Partner of VMware
Scott Salyer serves as director of enablement business partner at VMware.
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