SANJAY POONEN,
CEO - COHESITY
A Harvard Baker Scholar and Dartmouth summa cum laude graduate, Sanjay Poonen brings a rare combination of technical depth, global sales leadership, and strategic vision — having doubled VMware’s revenue from $6 billion to $12 billion while architecting landmark cloud partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. At Cohesity, he rose from seventh to first in data protection within two years, building a customer base of 12,000 organisations including 85% of Fortune 500 companies — targeting a $5 billion AI-powered data empire.
