Authors

Sonali Desai

Group 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 the Director of Cross-Cloud Services Product Marketing at VMware. He has two decades of B2B technology marketing experience in roles spanning strategic, product, and industry marketing functions.…

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 Cloud Native technologies, Automation, Integration and…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Bill Roth

Director, Product Marketing

Bill Roth is Director of Product Marketing in the VMware Cloud group at VMware. He is a 30 year veteran of the enterprise software industry. He has been a programmer,…

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…

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…

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,…

Narayan Bharadwaj

Enterprise Product Leader

Narayan leads the Cloud Solutions team at VMware in a general management role. The Cloud Solutions team builds and operates the VMware Cloud SaaS platform for our public cloud solutions…

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…

Dan Flaherty

Dan is a senior member of the Cross-Cloud Services team at VMware, helping IT leaders find solutions to their multi-cloud challenges. He is a bridge between product development at VMware…

Gilles Chekroun

Senior NSX Specialist SE

Gilles Chekroun is Lead VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions Architect in the European team. He joined VMware in 2015 after spending 20 years at Cisco in the Data Centre Network…

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

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.

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…

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…

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…

Steve Dockar

Worldwide OCVS Lead Field Solutions Architect

Steve is a Worldwide Lead Field Solutions Architect at VMware. He leads the technical sales alliance between VMware and Oracle globally for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

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…

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…

Dustin Spinhirne

Solutions Architect Principal

Eric Horschman

Product Marketing Director

Eric Horschman, Product Marketing Director at VMware Eric joined VMware in 1999 where, as product manager, he brought the first x86 server virtualization product to market and helped establish VMware…

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…

Moin Nawaz Syed

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

Paul Park

Marketing Manager of Strategic Alliances

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

Aditi Pandey

Aditi Pandey is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware, Inc. She has over six years of product marketing experience working in the IT industry,…

Angie Reynolds

Cloud Economist

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

Bala Bharathy U

Manager - Strategic Product Marketing

Bala Bharathy U is a product marketer at VMware, focusing on VMware Application Catalog, VMware Image Builder and VMware Marketplace. He started his product marketing career in 2020 and has…

Bob Plankers

Staff Security & Compliance Architect, VMware

Staff Cloud Infrastructure Security & Compliance Architect & CISSP at VMware working to bridge people, process, and technology to help organizations become and stay secure.

Brandon DaCosta

Hyperscale Cloud Economist

Brandon DaCosta is a Senior Cloud Economist at VMware focused on supporting TCO/ROI analysis of VMware Cloud solutions. He has 25 years of technology industry experience including roles in IT…

Chris Wolf

VP & CTO, Global Field and Industry

Harsh Singh

Harsh Singh leads the product marketing for VMware Multi-Cloud and Application Modernization. Before VMware, Harsh was the VP and Head of Healthcare Sales for Tech Mahindra. Harsh has been a…

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,…

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…

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,…

Ahmar Mohammad

As leader of the Go-to-Market Transformation Office (GTO), Ahmar is responsible for driving transformational change within go-to-market operations as VMware transitions to a SaaS/subscription business. GTO influences the end-to-end customer…

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 Sr. 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…

Blair Fritz

Blair has been working in IT since 2003 where he started his adventures by working at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Since then, he’s has nearly 20 years of experience…

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…

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

Guy Bartram

Director of Product Marketing, VMware Cloud Service Business Unit

Guy Bartram is a Product Marketing & Competitive Intelligence specialist responsible for core VMware Cloud Provider products and go-to-market global initiatives. Since 2015 Guy has been working in multiple VMware…

Hitendar Sethi

Hiten is a passionate product marketer who loves to write about modern applications and technology's impact on the business. At VMware, he leads product marketing for Modern Apps on VMware…

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…

Jay Thontakudi

Senior Product Marketing Manager

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

Joe Van Ert

Joe Van Ert is a Systems Architect for Quality Bicycle Products, a large distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry. Joe has been working in the IT…

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

Richard Munro is the Director, Strategy and Operations in the Office of the CTO at VMware. His main focuses are on Innovation, Multi-cloud, and App Transformation. Richard has over 30…

Ruchi Tandon

Ruchi is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware Inc. With 14+ years of strong technology, data, and marketing background, Ruchi brings deep experience in…

S Ganeshan

Ganeshan S is a Sr. Product Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts at VMware. With more than decade of IT experience, he has played various roles with consulting, sales,…

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 SaaS with VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight). Sehjung has worked…

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…

Snehansu Chatterjee

Snehansu Chatterjee is a Senior Product Manager based out of Bangalore. As a key member of the Product Management team Snehansu manages various aspects of VMware HCX, the workload mobility…

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…

Vidur Bhatnagar

Vidur Bhatnagar is a Senior Product Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS.

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.

Zachary Smith

Leading the business for Equinix's Network Edge and Metal services. Making it easier for customers and partners to leverage the global reach, neutral ecosystems and interconnected value of Platform Equinix.