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.

As CFO and COO, Eric Brown is responsible for Cohesity’s finance, IT, operations, and M&A integration functions. With more than 25 years of technology industry experience, Brown brings extensive operational, financial and technology related expertise to Cohesity and has a track record of building and scaling high performing teams. Brown’s experience goes 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 Worldwide Field Organization (WWFO) and is responsible for global Sales, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, Channels, Alliances, and Enablement.

Prior to that, Kit was 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’s degree in Economics and Computer Science from Gettysburg College.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Carol leads all aspects of Cohesity’s Global Marketing organization. She loves building and scaling new products and has done that at large and small companies in varying roles as CMO, GM, CEO, most recently as CMO of Unity, a real-time 3D software engine. Prior to that, Carol was CMO at VMware where her teams helped drive the transformation to a multi-cloud company. She has also held leadership roles at Google Cloud, Trend Micro, and more.

She is particularly proud of the high-performance teams she’s developed and the fact that many of her prior marketing mavens are all doing impactful work across tech companies. She continues to mentor humans via the HBS women entrepreneurship program and Monte Jade, an AAPI professional organization. Carol holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

As Chief People Officer, as well as Chief of Staff to the CEO, Rebecca is responsible for leading Cohesity’s people strategy, global talent acquisition, leadership development, belonging, organizational design, employee development, total rewards, people operations, and Cohesity’s workplace strategy. In her current role, she is focused on culture and driving the impact of HR across the Company to support its business goals and strategies.

With more than 20 years of expertise and experience in business transformation, change management, organizational design and effectiveness, as well as driving a high-performance culture, Rebecca’s background informs her role as a trusted and strategic business advisor.

Prior to joining Cohesity, Rebecca held leadership and operational roles at VMware, SAP, Business Objects, and Informatica. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, as well as certifications in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University and Human Resource Management from University of the Pacific.

In this role, Walter is responsible for leading the vision, strategy, and execution of the Cohesity product portfolio.  

With over 25 years of experience in enterprise software, Walter brings deep expertise in driving complex, large-scale initiatives across Engineering, Product Management, Product Marketing, and Sales.  

Before joining Cohesity, Walter served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Veritas, where he was responsible for the NetBackup product line. Prior to joining Veritas, Walter worked with Toba Capital, where he played a key role in evaluating investment opportunities and scaling portfolio companies. During his time there, he founded the VC-backed startup Parsec Labs, served as CEO of Quorum on behalf of Toba, and later launched his own self-funded AI startup, Speak2Web.  

Earlier in his career, Walter held the role of Senior Vice President and General Manager at Quest Software, a Dell company.  

Walter holds a master’s degree in Atomic and Nuclear Physics from the Johannes Kepler University in Austria and is the inventor of multiple patents in data compression and deduplication technologies. 

Lenny is responsible for ensuring that Cohesity’s customers are successful in exceeding the value of their investment in Cohesity solutions. This includes customer support, renewals teams, and coordinating the company focus on the end-to-end customer relationship.

He is an accomplished operations executive with over 20 years of leadership and management experience at high-tech companies that include Western Union, Symantec, Multitude, Inc. (FireTalk), Excite@Home and Hewlett-Packard, where he successfully met the challenges of new ventures, turnaround businesses, and high-growth expansion to deliver strong and sustainable operating results.

Lenny’s strengths include identifying and developing new business opportunities, strengthening and restructuring business operations, and building strong, productive and collaborative organizations. Prior to Veritas, Lenny served as Senior Vice President of Operations at Western Union for three years. Before that, in his 12 years at Symantec, Lenny grew the company’s eCommerce business 21 percent in a highly competitive and commoditized market, growing new online customers by 10 percent annually, leveraging big data for personalization, and expanding organizational and platform capabilities.

Lenny holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University in New York City and a bachelor’s degree in applied physics from Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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.