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Sonali Desai
Product Line Marketing Manager
Sonali Desai is a Group Product Line Marketing Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware, Inc. Sonali has been working in IT industry for more than 15 years with…

David Jasso
Director of Cloud Marketing
David Jasso is a Director of Cloud Marketing at VMware focused on Multi-Cloud operations. David joined VMware in 2011 and was a key member of the team that introduced VMware…

Mandy Storbakken
Director, Multi-Cloud Management Security SE's
An early adopter of Cloud technologies, Mandy Storbakken has lived through the good, the bad, and the ugly of driving transformation through technology. She draws on these experiences to shape…

Tobias Lilley
Cloud Technologist
As a Technologist in the Cloud Management Business Unit at VMware, Tobias provides subject matter expertise in Multi-Cloud Operations and Automation. With a broad experience in Software Development, Cloud Architecture,…

William Lam
Senior Staff Solution Architect
William is Senior Staff Solution Architect in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He primarily focus on Automation, Integration and Operation for the…

Lefteris Marakas
Lefteris Marakas is a Product Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit. During his time in VMware he has been driving messaging and positioning for VMware's cloud automation services.…

Lauren van der Vaart
Senior Content Marketing Specialist, Multi-Cloud Solutions
Lauren is a Senior Content Marketing Specialist as part of the Multi-Cloud Solutions team at VMware. She focuses on delivering valuable, relevant, and actionable content for customers on their cloud…

Neeharika Palaka
Neeharika Palaka is a Sr. Manager at VMware and drives product marketing and strategy for VMware Marketplace. Prior to VMware, Nee worked as an operations strategy consultant with PwC. She…

Emad Younis
Staff Cloud Solutions Architect
Emad Younis is a Sr. Staff Cloud Solutions Architect in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He leads VMware’s Multi-Cloud Center of Excellence, focusing on solving customer problems…

Matt Elliott
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
Matt Elliott is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at VMware with IT experience in several sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, big law and VAR/MSP. He is passionate about all things networking,…

Sudesh Girdhari
Chief Solution Finder & Sr. Problem Mender
Technology is messy for many large companies and overly complicated. Often unclear tech investments result in poor outcomes for many enterprise decision makers. I love to dig into customer problems…

Allwyn Sequeira
SVP & GM

Bill Roth
Director, Product Marketing
Bill Roth is Director of WW Cloud Economics at VMware. He is a 30 year veteran of the enterprise software industry. He has been a CMO for startups, an evangelist,…

Dan Flaherty
Daniel Flaherty is a senior member of the Multi-Cloud Solutions Team at VMware, responsible for creating content that demonstrates the value of VMware Cloud for enterprise IT professionals globally. Prior…

Michaela Lindsay
Michaela Lindsay is a Manager of Product Marketing and Strategy at VMware. She helps customers discover solutions compatible with VMware technology and works with partners to promote their solutions on…

Victoria Wright
Victoria Wright is a Product Marketer on the Multi-Cloud Solutions team with a passion for technology. When she’s not working on all things multi-cloud, you can find her exercising, reading,…

Christine Cignoli
Content Strategist, Multi-Cloud Marketing at VMware

Martin Hosken
Martin Hosken is the Worldwide Chief Technologist for VMware Cloud Services. Martin works at the intersection of IT Architecture, Solution Architecture and Software Development. His primary focus is on cutting…

Narayan Bharadwaj
Enterprise Product Leader
Narayan leads the VMware Cloud product management team. Narayan led the VMware Cloud on AWS service from concept to rapid delivery across global regions. In addition, he leads VMware Cloud…

Audrey Bian
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Audrey Bian is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at VMware. She leads product marketing for hyperscaler cloud services, focused on messaging, product positioning and promotion, pricing, and go-to-market strategy and…

Craig Stanley
Group Product Line Marketing Manager / Cloud Economics
Craig Stanley is a Group Product Line Marketing Manager in the Cloud Economics group. He specializes in economic cost analysis and the art of decision making. Craig has been in…

Dee Dee Atta
Group Product Marketing Manager, Multi-Cloud Solutions
Dee-Dee is responsible for VMware global product marketing and go-to-market initiatives across strategic multi-cloud solutions. Her past experiences include marketing executive roles with Hewlett-Packard Enterprises and Cisco Systems.

Sandeep Sharma
Sandeep is a Sr. Product Manager for Networking and Security on VMware Cloud on AWS. In this role, he helps enterprise customers run mission critical applications using hybrid cloud connectivity…

Alina Thylander
Product Line Marketing Manager
Alina Thylander is a Product Line Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit. In this role, Alina drives messaging and positioning for vRealize Automation. She has held various sales…

Anthony Larijani
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Anthony is passionate about helping organizations adopt new technologies to achieve strategic business outcomes. He is currently a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at VMware, responsible for Multi-Cloud Solutions. As a…

Cheryl Young
Product Line Marketing Manager
Cheryl Young is a Product Line Marketing Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group at VMware focused on Google Cloud VMware Engine. She has been working in the enterprise software…

David Zhang
Staff Customer Success Architect
David Zhang is a Staff Customer Success Architect for VMware Cloud on AWS. He enjoys developing content and talking to customers to help their Cloud journey. His current focus is…

Hari Ramakrishnan
Senior Director of SaaS Transformation & Operations
Hari Ramakrishnan is the Senior Director of SaaS Transformation & Operations at VMware, where he has held a number of product, go-to-market, and operations roles. Before VMware, Hari was a…

Matt Morgan
VP, Cloud Services
Matthew Morgan is the vice president of global marketing for VMware Cloud Services, overseeing all marketing strategy, planning, and execution for VMware’s Cloud Services Business Unit (CSBU). As marketing chief…

Ruhi Sehgal
Sr. Associate – Product Marketing & Strategy
Ruhi Sehgal is part of the Product Marketing team for VMware Marketplace team at VMware. She holds a degree from Chapman University in Business-Marketing. She enjoys cooking, kickboxing, and reading…

Satya Shrestha
Staff Multi-Cloud Solutions Architect
Satya is an experienced IT professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology with years of experience in multiple industry verticals. He is a Staff Multi-Cloud Solutions…

Steve Dockar
Global Technical Sales Manager
Steve is a Global Technical Sales Manager at VMware. He leads the technical sales alliance between VMware and Oracle globally for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

Suzy Visvanathan
Sr. Product Line Manager

Ajay Patel
Senior Vice President, Product Development, Cloud Services

Betty Junod
Betty Junod is the Senior Director of Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware helping organizations along their journey to cloud. This is Betty’s second time at VMware, having previously led product marketing…

Dustin Spinhirne
Solutions Architect Principal

Eric Gray
Eric Gray is a Principal Architect from VMware Technical Marketing. He joined in 2005 after spending a decade working at a variety of Silicon Valley technology companies. His current focus…

Glenn Sizemore
Glenn Sizemore is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect in the Cloud Platform business unit at VMware. Currently, he is responsible for all things Storage in the VMware Cloud on AWS…

Jason McKenzie
Jason McKenzie is a member of the Multi-Cloud Center Of Excellence in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. Working with the Hyperscalers, he partners with them to drive…

Mark Lohmeyer
VP Products, Cloud Platform
Mark Lohmeyer is the Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware, with responsibility for engineering, cloud operations, product management, marketing, and business development,…

Matt Dreyer
Director of Product Management
Matt is a Director of Product Management at VMware, where he is responsible for driving compliance, certification, automation and analytics for VMware Cloud on AWS. Matt’s team focuses on delivering…

Moin Nawaz Syed
Product Line Manager – Security & Compliance - VMware Cloud on AWS

Raquel Campuzano Godoy
Technical Marketing Manager
Raquel Campuzano is a Technical Marketing Manager at VMware. She is in charge of managing the creation of technical content that allows developers to deploy and use awesome software everywhere.…

Shagun Tewari
Shagun is a Senior Product Marketing & Strategy manager for cloud-native categories on VMware Marketplace, Bitnami App Catalog and Tanzu Application Catalog. Previously, she led marketing efforts for VMware’s hybrid…

Stefania Cugini
Director, Global Customer Loyalty
Stefania Cugini is Director, Global Customer Loyalty at VMware.

Vish Kalsi
Vish Kalsi is a Product Management lead for the Cloud Platform. He focuses on Cloud Platform and Security. Vish has driven several products at VMware, working through the facets of…

Angie Reynolds
Cloud Economist
Cloud Economist focused on Total Cost of Ownership for VMC on Dell and GCVE.

Chris Wolf
VP & CTO, Global Field and Industry

Jeremiah Megie
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect
Jeremiah is a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) for VMware. Jeremiah is responsible for creating technical content for internal, partner, and customer consumption. With…

Kate Bignell
VMware Cloud Services
Marketing Executive for the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group at VMware

Ken Smith
Senior Product Marketing Manager – VMware Cloud on Dell EMC / VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts
Ken is a 35+year veteran of Silicon Valley-based Cloud Services, Networking, and Data communications companies. His career has focused on Product/ Competitive/ Technical Marketing, Software Development, and IT Architecture roles.

Phoebe Kim
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
As a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect in the Multi-Cloud Center of Excellence at VMware, Phoebe Kim helps customers achieve workload mobility across multiple clouds by providing multi-cloud reference architectures and…

Rajiv Thakkar
Group Manager, Product Marketing, VMware Cloud
Rajiv Thakkar leads product marketing for the Modern Applications on VMware Cloud. Previously, he lead product marketing to launch vSphere with Tanzu, VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu, VMware Cloud Foundation…

sbadem
Product Line Manager

Subbu Mahadevan
Director, Partner Product Marketing, GTM, Alliances

Vittorio Viarengo
Vice President of Cloud Solutions Marketing at VMware

Abhinav Modi
Group Product Line Manager
Abhinav is a Product Manager with the Avi team at VMware. Abhinav's focus areas include load balancing and application delivery, especially for public cloud and hyper-scaler environments.

Adam Bohle
Adam Bohle is a Cloud Solution Architect based in the UK. He is part of VMware’s Global Multi-Cloud Architecture team focused on the breadth of VMware Solutions across AWS, Google,…

Anika Suri
Product Line Manager
Anika Suri is a Product Line Manager at VMware, where she is responsible for driving adoption of HCX with public Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google…

Belu De Arbelaiz
Belu de Arbelaiz is the Product Line Marketing Manager for VMware’s Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) portfolio, in charge of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, VMware Site Recovery, and Site…

Bob Plankers
Technical Marketing
Bridging people, process, and technology. Playing defense for 26 years. Purveyor of "dad" jokes, movie quotes, and puns. Prior to joining VMware he spent 24 years in enterprise IT, wearing…

Brandon DaCosta
Hyperscale Cloud Economist
Brandon DaCosta is a Hyperscale Cloud Economist at VMware focused on supporting TCO/ROI analysis of Oracle Cloud VMware Solutions (OCVS). He has 24 years of technology industry experience including roles…

Derrik Campau
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Derrik is the lead SRE for the VDP team, managing over 100 Kubernetes clusters with more than 40k pods. Derrik was also a Release Lead Shadow on the 1.22 Kubernetes…

Dinesh Singh
Product Line Marketing Manager
Dinesh Singh is a Product Line Marketing Manager for VMware Cloud within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG). He focuses on increasing awareness and adoption of multi-cloud solutions among customers…

Emily O'Shaughnessy
Multi-Cloud Marketing Manager
Emily O’Shaughnessy is a Marketing Manager for Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware, where she focuses on education, awareness, and helping customers navigate their multi-cloud journey. She joined VMware from Dell Technologies,…

Eric Cheung-Young-Sen
Partner Solution Architect

Harsh Singh
Harsh Singh leads the business solutions product marketing for VMware Cloud and prior to that, led sales enablement for VMware Cloud on AWS. Before VMware, Harsh was the VP and…

Igal Bakshan
Igal Bakshan is the Staff Engineer for the Cloud Services Engagement Platform team. His primary focus is solving engineering problems using the most cutting-edge technology. Perpetual learner, innovator, and tech…

James Forrester
VP Worldwide Technical Leader, Cloud Sales
James Forrester is VP Worldwide Technical Leader, Cloud Sales at VMware. He is responsible for leading VMware’s Cloud Sales technical community to help accelerate customers’ journeys to cloud, modern apps,…

Jay Thontakudi
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Jay is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for SASE within the VMware Service Provider and Edge business unit.

Larry Henderson
Larry is a Sr. Product Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware. During his 6-year tenure, he has also worked in Professional Services specializing in NSX and Cloud. Having…

Martijn Smit
Technical Product Manager for Network Insight
Martijn is a proud Dutchman (stroopwafels!) and has spent around 15 years as an IT professional, mostly focused on network operations. He has been with VMware for 3 years. He…

Mihail Hernandez
Member of Technical Staff
Mihail Hernandez is a Member of Technical Staff for the Cloud Services Engagement Platform's Commerce domain. Driven, passionate developer, and learner.

Nicole Palko
Microsoft Licensing Lead
Nicole Palko has 15 years of software licensing knowledge , working with hosting partners around the world to optimize their software licensing agreements and maintain compliance.

Pete Wall
Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Peter Haagenson
Sr. Product Marketing Manger, Cloud Management Business Unit

Rebekah Dumouchelle
Rebekah Dumouchelle is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Faction. With more than 15 years in the tech industry, Rebekah’s focus is on answering how technology can help enterprises solve…

Richard Munro
Director, Cloud and Apps Strategy

Samantha Reid
Samantha Reid is senior manager of multi-cloud content and editorial at VMware.

Sehjung Hah
Sehjung Hah is a Product Line Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit working on vRealize Network Insight Cloud. Sehjung has worked in the networking industry for 23 years…

Shansi Zhang
Product Manager, VMware
Shansi is a Product Manager on the Disaster Recovery as-a-Service team, focusing on commercial growth and compliance for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. She was an intern at VMware during the…

Sridhar Vennela
Cloud Technology Architect

Stacy Ozorio
Sovereign Cloud and Hyper-converged Infrastructure Product Marketing and Digital Marketing for Cloud Services Business at VMware

Sudhir Kasanavesi
Sudhir Kasanavesi is the Staff Engineer for the Cloud Services Engagement Platform team. Sudhir’s focus is on building common commerce features and services that power diverse VMware SaaS and hybrid…

Yavor Papazov
Cloud Security Researcher, VMware
Yavor is a Cloud Security Researcher at VMware, as part of the CloudHealth Secure State team. Yavor has worked in the information security and cybersecurity space for the past several…

Yonah Dissen
Devops Engineer
Yonah is a Devops Engineer on the Cloud Services Engagement Platform team with a passion for technology. He enjoys solving complex problems and trying out the latest technologies.