Sanjay Poonen

Sanjay Poonen is the Founder of Cohesity, a data management and cloud platform company, and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to his current position, he served as the President of Cloud Platform at VMware, where he was directly responsible for building and scaling the firm's cloud infrastructure and data management businesses. Earlier in his career, Poonen held senior executive roles at Dell and EMC, developing extensive domain expertise in virtualization and infrastructure software. Under his leadership, Cohesity has secured significant venture funding to expand its global enterprise customer base across the competitive data management sector. As a seasoned enterprise software executive, he directs Cohesity's overall corporate strategy and daily operations. His current focus remains centered on advancing enterprise software, cloud computing, and scalable infrastructure platforms for global technology markets.