Sanjay Poonen

CEO

Los Altos, California, United States32 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led VMware's revenue growth from $7B to $12B.
  • Architected multi-cloud deals with major providers.
  • Drove SAP's growth from $10B to $20B.
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AnalyticsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness ProcessBusiness StrategyCEO SuccessionCRMCloud ComputingCreative SolutionsDemand GenerationERPEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise MobilityEnterprise SoftwareEntrepreneurship

About

High tech executive with extensive large company and entrepreneurial experience in building and scaling multi-billion dollar businesses and leading strong teams. Experienced in general management, engineering, product management, sales, marketing and business development. Domain Expertise: Cloud, Applications, Infrastructure, Analytics, Security. Extracurricular Passions: Music (piano), Sports (soccer, basketball), Community Service.

Experience

Cohesity

CEO and President

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, California, United States

  • Leading AI-Powered Data Security Platform

Philips

Supervisory Board of Directors, Member of Audit Committee

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • At Philips, our purpose is to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. We aim to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities.

Snyk

Board Of Directors, Member of Comp and Nom/Gov Committees

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Snyk is a Cloud 100 leader in developer security.

Dell boomi

Board of Directors

Mar 2019May 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Boomi, industry-leading cloud integration platform, acquired by TPG and Francisco for $4B.

Infor

Board Of Directors

Dec 2017Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Infor, the largest privately-held cloud-based business applications company

Zoom

Advisory Board Member and Investor

Sep 2017Jun 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Bringing the world together, one connection at a time.

Docusign

Advisory Board Member and Investor

Jul 2015Jul 2019 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on and manage agreements.

Webb investment network

Investor Affiliate

Aug 2013Present · 12 yrs 7 mos

  • Investor and Adviser with Maynard Webb and team, to select startups

Vmware

Chief Operating Officer

Aug 2013Aug 2021 · 8 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

  • As COO, Sanjay led all front-office functions - Sales, Marketing, Services, Support, Alliances:
  • Led VMware's growth from $7B to $12B revenue, meeting/beating expectations 18 qtrs
  • Architected the multi-cloud deals with AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Alibaba, IBM
  • Drove the Security strategy / business (R&D & GTM), including acquiring Carbon Black
  • Prior to being COO, Sanjay was EVP/GM of End-User Computing (EUC) - led R&D & GTM:
  • Grew EUC from $300M to over $1.5B, including acquiring AirWatch
  • Established VMware as the leader in the EUC space

Sap

President & Corporate Officer

Apr 2006Jul 2013 · 7 yrs 3 mos

  • In his role as President, Sanjay led SAP's Applications and Platform Solutions & Sales teams, top drivers of SAP's growth from $10B to $20B revenue (including HANA, the fastest product to $1B revenue in SAP history). Sanjay also led SAP's 24 Vertical Industry Units and the Mobile Division end-to-end (R&D and Sales).
  • Prior to this role, Sanjay was EVP/GM of Performance Optimization Apps, a $2B+ business, where he ran both engineering and GTM of analytic apps, enterprise performance management (EPM), and governance, risk, compliance (GRC) products. Drove SAP's rapid growth, vision & market leadership in the category.

Envision education

Board Member

Jan 2006Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Board of Envision Schools, a pioneering bay-area charter school, funded by the Gates Foundation.

Symantec

VP of Operations

May 2004Apr 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Member of Product Leadership Team, led product operations for the $5B Symantec business. Prior, at VERITAS, ran OEM sales ($400M) and all strategic alliances. Pioneered new deals with IBM, HP, Sun.

Informatica corporation

Senior Vice President, Corporate Officer

Jan 2001Feb 2004 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Led the Analytics Business Unit (R&D and GTM) and then led Worldwide Marketing, in driving Informatica's growth from $130 to $220M, and established it's market leadership in data integration.

Alphablox

Founder, Director of Product Management & Marketing

Jun 1997Dec 2000 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Founder's Circle. Held senior roles in product management and business development. Managed several product releases, growing revenues from 0 to $20M and 100 customers. Awarded 2 patents.

Apple

Software Engineer

Jul 1991Aug 1995 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Designed and implemented key aspects of the Taligent software platform, OS, C++ compiler and math libraries. Awarded a patent for object-oriented numerical libraries in compiler design.

Microsoft corporation

Software Engineer

Mar 1990Sep 1990 · 6 mos

  • Software Engineer on Microsoft Workgroup Apps (evolved into Microsoft Exchange).

Education

Harvard University

MBA — Masters of Business Administration

Dartmouth College

A.B. — Computer Science and Engineering/Math

Stanford University

Master of Science (M.S.) — Management Science and Engineering

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