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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.

Manuvir Das is the head of enterprise computing at NVIDIA, where he leads teams working to democratize AI by bringing full-stack accelerated computing to every enterprise customer. Das has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2019, he held a range of senior roles at Dell and Microsoft, where he helped to create the Azure cloud computing platform, and was an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Das holds a Bachelor of Technology in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Marco Casalaina is VP Products of Azure Cognitive Services at Microsoft, where he oversees a team building some of the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Marco led the Einstein AI team at Salesforce. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Ryan joined OneDigital at JSR as the global Head of IT Products and Services in July 2022. In this role leading the IT vertical for OneDigital providing IT Services to JSR companies worldwide include JSR Micro, JSR Life Sciences, KBI, MBLI, Crown Biosciences as well as other JSR subsidiaries. He is based in Denver, Colorado.

Ryan was most recently leading IT at KBI Biopharma, a JSR subsidiary, responsible for all aspects of IT, CSV and support. He lead a multi-national team of professionals across the full range of the technology stack. These include cloud, infrastructure and data center operations, networking, security, systems architecture, PMO, application development, automation, test, computer systems validation, Service Desk, IT controls, governance, risk and compliance. While at KBI he defined a multi-year technology strategy to enable KBI to achieve it’s financial and compliance targets.

Prior to KBI, Ryan worked in Financial Services at Charles Schwab where he spent time as the technology leader for the equity compensation business as well as a software architect modernizing client communications. In his equity compensation role he lead his team in creating and executing a 5 year technology strategy, full stack development, and operations support. His team executed on the strategy through development using micro-services and micro-UIs in a hybrid cloud leveraging relational and non-relational databases in a highly distributed and highly available environment. Ryan also lead his team in adopting best in-class processes around planning, software development, quality, CI/CD, release engineering, and production support. Finally, Ryan continued to focus on team development by leading workshops for personal development based on the “Career Strategy Framework”.

Prior to Schwab Ryan was with Microsoft Corp. in Denver as well as in Redmond, WA, for 5 years. During his tenure there, he held multiple roles including Program Manager, Enterprise Architect and Regional IT Manager. In these roles he primarily focused on creating a roadmap focused on modernization and migration to the cloud for Microsoft IT leveraging hybrid ITIL/TOGAF model.

Before joining Microsoft, Ryan was an IT Director for Sandoz, a subsidiary of Novartis A.G., where he ran IT for Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality/Lab, and Research teams in the US at multiple sites.

Ryan has a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Colorado College and holds a Master of Business Administration from 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.

Theresa Miller is the Director of the Technical Advocacy Group at Cohesity. She is an IT professional who has been working as a technical expert in IT for over 25 years and has her MBA. She is uniquely industry recognized as a Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert. Her areas of expertise are in security, cloud, hybrid cloud, end-user computing, virtualization, and M365 solutions.

Greg Statton works in the Office of the CTO, focusing on data and AI. His career spans over 20 years, and his accomplishments include both architecting enterprise IT strategies for Bechtel, one of the world’s largest engineering and construction companies, and building next-generation data center solutions and products for companies like Citrix Systems and Nutanix. Since joining Cohesity in 2015, Greg has held various positions in product management, marketing, and technical architecture. He’s helped architect and deploy some of Cohesity’s largest and most complex deployments around the globe— including some of the world’s largest financial institutions.