Sanjay Poonen

CEO and President @ Cohesity

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.

Country

United States

City

Los Altos

Industry

Hospital & Health Care

Skill

General Management, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Software, Product Development, Sales, Solution Selling, Strategic Partnerships, Product Management, Strategic Alliances, Product Marketing, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence, Risk Management, Performance Management, Media Relations, Strategic Leadership, People Skills, Enterprise Mobility, Technical Leadership, Enterprise Architecture

Experience

CEO and President

Cohesity

2022-8 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

San Jose, CA

Leading AI-Powered Data Security Platform

Supervisory Board of Directors, Member of Audit Committee

Philips

2021-12 - Present · 4 yrs 10 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.

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

Snyk

2021-10 - Present · 5 yrs

Snyk is a Cloud 100 leader in developer security.

Investor Affiliate

Webb Investment Network

2013-8 - Present · 13 yrs 2 mos

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

Chief Operating Officer

VMware

2013-8 - 2021-8 · 8 yrs 1 mo

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

Board of Directors

Boomi

2019-3 - 2021-5 · 2 yrs 3 mos

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

Board Of Directors

Infor

2017-12 - 2020-4 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Greater New York City Area

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

Advisory Board Member and Investor

Docusign

2015-7 - 2019-7 · 4 yrs 1 mo

San Francisco Bay Area

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

Advisory Board Member and Investor

Zoom

2017-9 - 2019-6 · 1 yr 10 mos

Bringing the world together, one connection at a time.

President & Corporate Officer

SAP

2006-4 - 2013-7 · 7 yrs 4 mos

As President, Sanjay led SAP's Applications and Platform Solutions & Sales teams: * Top drivers of SAP's growth from $10B to $20B revenue * Included HANA, the fastest product to $1B revenue in SAP history * 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: * $2B+ business, ran both engineering and GTM teams * Analytics, Enterprise performance management (EPM), governance, risk, compliance (GRC) products * Drove SAP's rapid growth, vision & market leadership in the category