Media Kit

As Chief Executive Officer and President, Sanjay Poonen leads Cohesity in its mission to radically simplify how organizations manage their data and unlock limitless value. Sanjay is a proven business executive with over 25 years of experience in scaling multi-billion-dollar businesses and building strong teams. Most recently, Sanjay was COO at VMware, where he oversaw sales, marketing, services and alliances, doubling VMware from approximately $6B to $12B in revenue. Poonen played a vital role in architecting multiple successful cloud partnerships, including AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. He also led the company’s security and end-user computing businesses, including the acquisition of AirWatch and Carbon Black. Prior to VMware, Poonen served as President of SAP where he led SAP’s Applications, Industries and Platform teams, serving in engineering and sales roles that helped double SAP from approximately $10B to $20B in revenue. He began his career as a software engineer at Microsoft and Apple. Sanjay has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated a Baker Scholar which designates his position in the top 5% of his graduating class, a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science, math and engineering from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Sanjay holds two patents. Poonen serves on the Supervisory Board of Philips, and Board of Snyk.

Mohit has over 20 years of experience in building scalable, high- performance distributed systems, and has been attributed as the father of hyperconvergence. Mohit founded Cohesity in 2013 and has grown the company into a leading provider of next-gen data management. He also co-founded Nutanix as the CTO, now a public company and leader in hyperconverged technology, in 2009. Prior to co-founding Nutanix, Mohit was at Google as a lead developer on the Google File System, the software that manages data on Google’s large scale clusters. Aron graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from Rice University with a focus on distributed systems. He also holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi India. In 2018, he received the “Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award” from Rice University and also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi in 2019.

As Chief Financial Officer, Brown manages Cohesity’s financial strategy as it expands its cloud services and redefines data management and security. His 30+ years of experience includes proven operational skills across various enterprise technology areas, including security, data analytics, data management, collaboration, and interactive entertainment. Prior to joining Cohesity, Brown led the successful IPO for Informatica as CFO, raising $1 billion in proceeds at a $10 billion enterprise value. Before Informatica, Brown served in various public company CFO roles at Electronic Arts, McAfee, and Polycom. He has consistently delivered growth and operating margin expansion in his roles. Brown is a technology enthusiast starting with his earliest experience as an AI/data mining company co-founder with his MIT classmates. Brown studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry and a Masters of Management Science from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Kit leads Cohesity’s global go-to-market organization. Kit was previously Senior Vice President of global accounts and telcos at VMware, where he was responsible for VMware’s largest and most strategic global customers, in addition to leading some of the largest sales verticals.  Over the past three decades, Kit has held leadership roles across a range of innovative technology companies, including VMware, Uhana, and Cisco. With a focus on building high-performing, diverse teams, he brings a combination of enterprise sales expertise and technical acumen to the organization. Kit is a patent holder in VoIP technology and received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Computer Science from Gettysburg College.

As Chief Customer Experience Officer, Karen has global responsibility for the company’s customer experience, including Professional Services, Success and Support teams. Based in Cork, Ireland, Karen brings more than 27 years of experience in the software and IT industry, with 20 years in technical support. Before joining Cohesity, Egan served as a SVP of Global Support at VMware, where she was responsible for global technical support, customer escalations, and critical account engagements for all VMware’s solutions. Under her leadership, the team worked to ensure a seamless and excellent support experience for enterprise, commercial, and SMB customers across all product suites including on-premises, SaaS, and hybrid offerings. Egan also drove and implemented the transformation across VMware’s support operations to align with the company’s transition from perpetual license to subscription and SaaS offerings. Prior to her 15-year tenure at VMware, Egan held roles at Motorola and Apple. Egan earned her bachelor’s of arts degree in mathematics and computers, and a higher diploma in applied science from University College Cork.

Murari is responsible for Cohesity’s engineering and R&D teams’ continued innovations across AI, security, and multicloud. In his 35+ years of experience, he has led development teams in startups and larger corporations. Prior to Cohesity, Murari was vice president of Engineering at Google Cloud, where he was responsible for the productivity of approximately 20,000 software engineers encompassing compute, storage, networking, security, databases, analytics, AI/ML, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud console, platforms, and fleet management. He also led a team of 650 software engineers focused on improving feature velocity, product quality, and reliability across the product portfolio. Previously, he spent 12 years at VMware in several engineering leadership roles, including SVP of Engineering. Murari holds a Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering where he was the recipient of the Siemens Prize for being the student with the best academic record in his branch, and a Masters of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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 Virginia School of Law.

As SVP of People and Places & Chief of Staff to the CEO, Rebecca has global responsibility for aligning Cohesity’s culture, people strategy and business strategy, including employee experience, talent development, recruiting, total rewards, people operations, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Prior to joining Cohesity, Rebecca held leadership and operational roles at VMware, SAP, Business Objects, and Informatica. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.

Brian brings 20 years of experience managing IT and cybersecurity organizations within high-growth companies, while also providing consulting services for large, globally dispersed blue-chip enterprises. His leadership is pivotal in advancing core business operations, accelerating digital transformations, and building cybersecurity protocols that secure company, customer, and employee data. Prior to Cohesity, Brian managed Risk and Information Protection at Splunk, leading and rapidly expanding the organization responsible for managing cyber risk across the company. Brian’s prior roles also include leading the digital transformation of core business functions for McKesson and Grainger. Brian holds a BA in Economics from the University of Colorado. 

Tonya Chin joined Cohesity in March 2022 and currently serves as the Group Vice President of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. She brings over two decades of experience in the technology industry, sharing corporate insights and narratives with internal and external constituents. Chin leads the company’s global communications functions and is responsible for promoting the overall reputation of Cohesity. Her responsibilities include media relations, industry analyst relations, employee communications, social media and investor relations. Prior to Cohesity, Chin was responsible for Communications, Corporate Marketing and Investor Relations at Nutanix. She also held leadership positions at Aruba Networks, Solectron, and Ernst and Young. Tonya holds a bachelor of science degree from Santa Clara University.

Elad Horn heads Cohesity’s Product organization, bringing more than 20 years of experience in building products and leading teams in enterprise and startups. Elad joined Cohesity from Proofpoint, where he led the Cloud Security products portfolio. Before joining Proofpoint, he was VP of Products at enSilo (acquired by Fortinet), where he led product management for an endpoint security product from the drawing board phase to large scale adoption. Prior to enSilo, Elad held various product management positions at EMC, focusing on flash products and software defined storage. Elad also managed Imperva’s leading database security product and led software teams at Intel and Marvell. Elad holds an MBA from Reichman University and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.