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Title: Senior Vice President, Worldwide Commercial and Partner Organization, VMware

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Base of operations: Chicago

Time at VMware: 1.5 years

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My family is 100% Serbian. My mom and dad migrated to the U.S. when my mom was 7-months pregnant with me. I spent a lot of my days after school helping my parents with English and helping translate for my dad’s general contracting business.

Watching my family have to be all-in just to survive, to provide a life and a living for each other, taught me the value of working hard to achieve a goal—any goal. Working smart matters, but it’s about your commitment toward whatever it is you want to accomplish. Nothing is unachievable.

There will always be cards stacked against you. There are always reasons you can come up with why something can’t work. Won’t work. That’s not in my DNA. It must work. My upbringing cemented in me the belief in “choice.” You choose your narrative and you live by it.

What lessons did you learn from the pandemic and how has that shaped your leadership style in a post-pandemic world?

To manage the stress and complexity of the last year, I put more discipline around workouts and allotted time in the early morning to focus on self. It was incredibly rewarding to have the home time with my teenage daughter, especially since she recently left for college. We made more time for family meals and binged shows together. I also got back into golf. I actually believe you can learn everything you need to know about a person in 18 holes, and it’s been a joy.

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Professionally, my entire VMware experience was, until recently, completely virtual, which removed the barriers of location and how we work together. That allowed me to expand my reach. I spoke with more partners than I ever have, and the insights I gleaned have been invaluable as we make the move to multi-cloud. In the recent past, organizations traditionally have had boundaries or silos. I firmly believe in breaking down those boundaries, those real or perceived silos, and bringing teams together to execute.

In a post-pandemic world, now that travel restrictions have loosened somewhat, I’m using the lessons of the last year—both personally and professionally—to drive closer collaboration across our organization and with our partners, always focusing on reducing friction and making the VMware Partner experience memorable.

What advice do you have for fellow professionals seeking to achieve career success like yours?

For people seeking new opportunities or new ways to look at their career, start first with approaching your role differently versus just doing the job itself. Regardless of the role or job, there’s always an opportunity to solve for the bigger problem. For me, that means building relationships based on your common passion for solving that big problem. I think that’s the window of opportunity, because jobs can be changed and roles can be created to support that passion or bigger business need.

The strategy—it's incredible how well-positioned VMware is to impact our customers, the industry and the entire ecosystem.

The opportunity to transform—I have thrived by helping transform organizations and having various roles spanning all GTM functions; seeing the complexity and challenges and converting it into “what’s possible” is so exciting. The people<meta charset="utf-8">—enough said. Some of the most amazing people to work with are at VMware.

You often say, “Partner first.” What does that mean for you?

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We’ve really put the partner at the helm of our strategy. And when we talk about “partner first” or “partner led,” that is about integrating everything from product development to advisory boards to the way we embed partner feedback into our company culture. We’ve built a new mission statement: “Unleash the power of connected ecosystems to create customer-for-life value.” It not just VMware solving our customers’ problems. It’s leveraging the skills and capabilities of this massive ecosystem. 

Only VMware partners have the capabilities and expertise to serve as their customers’ trusted advisors in all things multi-cloud, including true multi-cloud flexibility and the insights to become “cloud smart.” To show our joint customers the complete VMware value proposition, we must expand and enhance our relationships with partners—so that together we can help customers achieve their outcomes.

What trends are you seeing across the Partner ecosystem and how is this benefiting partners?

Ecosystems are agents of change, even more so now. Every partner’s business model looks different today than it did 12 months ago—and will look different again 12 months from now. The emergence of multi-cloud and XaaS offerings, as well as the advent of software subscription buying models, have transformed the dynamics of technology ecosystems. In turn, ecosystems are now leading the multi-cloud customer transformation.

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Not too long ago, partners had distinct roles across the lifecycle (such as value-added resellers and distributors reselling, and systems integrators implementing and installing solutions). Today, we recognize that partners may have multiple business models to focus on “outcomes as a service,” and VMware is committed to supporting them as they evolve.

The competitive reality is that ecosystems have moved away from resale and transactional business models toward roles that influence customer decision-making and drive their consumption of cloud services, in addition to deploying and implementing solutions. However, this widespread shift is also creating new business opportunities for partners. In this influence-deploy-consume framework, new entrants like cloud service providers have gained importance in the partner ecosystem, and existing players have been compelled to build new capabilities, such as managed services offerings.

Sandy Hogan shares her thoughts on the power of choice, ways to create career success, and what being a partner means to her.

A look what brought senior vice president Sandy Hogan to VMware, how she shaped her leadership role during the pandemic and how the partner ecosystem is beneficial.

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As the world looks for ways to get more women interested in studying STEM, India’s young women act as a shining example to follow. In India, a country now widely recognized as the new Silicon Valley for technology investments, research, and development, more than 45% of STEM graduates are female. But while there is a large pool of talent in India, the career pipeline is leakier than it should be—in fact, 50% of women fall out of the workforce within eight years of university graduation and never return.

This missed opportunity struck VMware’s Duncan Hewett after he spoke with 250 women at a technology session in 2018 It became the catalyst for VMinclusion Taara—a free, self-paced training program to get female tech graduates in India back into the IT sector. Two years and almost 13,000 women enrolled, VMware’s Taara upskilling program has helped more than 2,000 women rejoin the workforce. It has become one of the most effective return-to-work programs in the country and has put a spotlight on providing women with the skills, confidence, and support to return to the IT sector in India.

VMware’s 2030 Agenda sets specific diversity, equity, and inclusion goals that are embedded in the way we do business. Taara is just one way we live out these goals. Studying the career journeys of just some of the Taara graduates, we’re able to uncover the many reasons that take Indian women out of the IT workforce, the barriers to re-entry they face, and how those barriers can be overcome to add their valuable skills back into India’s vibrant tech sector.

The <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-covid-19-has-pushed-companies-over-the-technology-tipping-point-and-transformed-business-forever">pace of digital acceleration</a> and the IT industry’s innovation makes it an exciting place to work. But a career break can mean that you will need to refresh your skills and even more important regain your confidence.

Taara graduate Anusha Subramanium had been part of the IT sector for six years before she put her career on hold to become a mother. Anusha says she understood how quickly IT skills could become dated and continued to upskill by earning an MBA. But when it came to applying for jobs to return to the workforce, she found this qualification didn’t represent the skills prospective employers wanted. Then she discovered Taara.

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Managing new commitments can make it difficult for women to find the time to upskill. After taking a break from her IT role to focus on her newborn, Taara graduate Sagarika Sahoo said she struggled to find time to reposition herself for employment.

Sagarika completed Taara’s self-paced courses and said connecting with other women through Taara helped keep her motivated. She is now back at work with a leading technology organization.

Another graduate, Sharmila Vaithilinga, said she loved working in the technology sector after joining the industry straight after university. But she decided to take a break after relocating and starting a family. Although she continued to participate in upskilling programs, her break turned into an 11-year absence from the workforce that plagued her self-esteem.

Yet while skills and time are frequent barriers to re-entering the workforce, rebuilding confidence is what many participants find to be the most valuable part of the Taara program. And even though the demand for IT talent continues to surge, a new LinkedIn study has found working women in India are four times less confident that they’ll secure a role than their male counterparts.

VMinclusion Taara started with the idea that talent shouldn’t be wasted, as well as the value that all people, regardless of circumstance, should have an opportunity to re-enter the workforce. Now one of the largest upskilling programs in India, it has supported over 12,800 women and plays a valuable role in creating a more equitable future as part of VMware’s 2030 Agenda.

Taara graduates like Anusha, Sagarika, and Shamila are a testament to the program’s success and highlight the ability of programs like VMinclusion Taara to change women’s lives and bring diverse talent back to the tech industry.

See more inspiring stories in “<a href="https://www.vmware.com/taara/e-book" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Galaxy of Stars</a>”, a new e-book highlighting the career journeys of VMinclusion Taara graduates.

As the world looks for ways to get more women interested in studying STEM, India’s young women act as a shining example to follow.

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Today is a landmark day for VMware. We are a standalone company once again. 

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, VMware and Dell Technologies today finalized the spin-off of Dell’s majority ownership of VMware.  

At VMware, we strive to serve our customers in three unique ways: By being the trusted foundation for their most critical business operations; by offering a best-of-breed, innovative portfolio of best-in-class solutions to fulfill their multi-cloud vision; and by having a broad set of strategic partnerships required to unlock the full potential of multi-cloud. 

As a standalone company, we now have the flexibility to partner even more deeply with all cloud and on-premises infrastructure companies to create a better foundation that drives results for our customers. And the increased flexibility we will have to use equity to complete future acquisitions will help us remain competitive. 

Today’s move will strengthen our mission to be the Switzerland of the cloud industry, uniquely positioned to provide our customers with the best combination of options as we grow our robust ecosystem of partners. 

Rest assured, we expect the benefits of working closely with Dell to be ongoing, as we continue to co-engineer solutions for customers through our new commercial agreement. Our channel synergies, partner and go-to-market programs with Dell remain robust. 

It’s clear that multi-cloud will be the model for digital business for the next 20 years, and in this vibrant, dynamic marketplace the pace of innovation is relentless. VMware is at the center of it: with VMware Cross-Cloud Services, we are empowering our customers to unlock the full potential of multi-cloud. 

I’m confident this next step in the VMware journey will enhance our ability to deliver the trusted foundation that our customers rely on to accelerate innovation. That is and will remain our top priority.  

As you can probably tell, I’m bullish about what this all means for our future. Today is the start of an exciting new era for VMware.  

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The Start of a New Era for VMware

Raghu Raghuram joined VMware in 2003 and currently serves as the company’s CEO. He is an industry thought leader and has successfully steered the company’s strategy and technology evolution across VMware’s rich history. &nbsp; During his tenure at VMware, Raghuram has held multiple leadership roles, most recently Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services, where he had responsibility for all of VMware’s product and service offerings and centralized services, support and operational functions. Prior, he led the company’s software-defined data center business as the executive vice president and general manager, where he was responsible for the division’s strategy, business and product planning and engineering execution. Before, he led the company’s cloud infrastructure and management business as the general manager, and led worldwide product marketing, product management and business planning for the company, and served as part of the leadership team that took the company through its initial IPO. Raghuram began his career at VMware running product management for ESX and vSphere. &nbsp; Prior to VMware, Raghuram held product management and marketing roles at AOL, Bang Networks and Netscape. Raghuram holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

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VMware President Sumit Dhawan, CMO Carol Carpenter and ESG VP Nicola Acutt explore the new realities of our multi-cloud world and how VMware helps customers accelerate innovation with the "power of and." 

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The world is re-inventing itself through apps. Whether you call this digital transformation or just progress, a few things are clear.​​

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​But the road to transformation is paved with challenges and compromises.​

It’s now a <a href="https://www.vmware.com/cloud-solutions/multi-cloud.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">multi-cloud</a> world, and organizations must choose between modernizing what they have or starting from scratch. Between tackling complex security challenges or taking on greater risk. Between giving developers autonomy or ensuring scalable, standardized operations.​​

VMware’s mission is to <a href="https://www.vmware.com/digital-foundation.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">deliver the trusted foundation to accelerate innovation</a>. We do this with <a href="https://www.vmware.com/welcome/cross-cloud-services.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Cross-Cloud services for all apps</a>, enabling digital innovation and enterprise control. We think of this as delivering the “power of and.”​

We serve our customers in three main areas. We help them:​

In the process, we help customers focus less on making tradeoffs and more on driving innovation, so they can get from wherever they are to wherever they want to be…faster.

​At the heart of everything we do—every idea, every product we engineer, every customer we support—lies a responsibility and an opportunity to help make the world a better place. We call this our <a href="https://news.vmware.com/esg/2021-esg-report-our-path-to-2030">2030 Agenda</a>, our vision for delivering three key outcomes:

We know we won’t get there alone. By co-innovating with you—our employees, customers, communities, shareholders and partners—together we will redefine the future.

VMware President Sumit Dhawan, CMO Carol Carpenter and ESG VP Nicola Acutt explore the new realities of our multi-cloud world in this video.

Watch VMware President Sumit Dhawan, CMO Carol Carpenter and ESG VP Nicola Acutt explore the new realities of our multi-cloud world.

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Dr. Moogega Cooper, planetary protection engineer for the Mars 2020 Mission, gives her take on what it means to fail. And it's a lesson worth remembering.

As NASA’s mission team watched on from 396 million kilometers away, the Rover deployed its painstakingly designed drilling apparatus into a promising rock.

But when the bore was examined, it was empty. The rock sample had disintegrated into dust.

At VMworld 2021, I had the pleasure of talking to the inspiring <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/people/profile/index.cfm?id=23121" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Moogega Cooper</a>, the lead of planetary protection for the Mars 2020 Mission.  Her take on what it means to fail is one worth remembering.

<a></a>The NASA team had tested its drilling system hundreds of times on Earth and thought they knew every single scenario.

<a></a>“The team took it well,” Dr. Cooper said.

<a></a>Dr. Cooper told me that after the initial disappointment, the mission team quickly refocused and treated the incident as an opportunity to gain new insight.<a></a> We learn so much from failure, she says. Failure allows us to grow, driving deeper understanding and, ultimately, innovation.

I’d add that a shared experience of failure also helps bond teams together, making them stronger and more capable.

Hardening Under Pressure

During an enlightening conversation, Dr. Cooper and I also discussed another crucial aspect of strong teams:  the ability to give and receive frank, fearless feedback.

<a></a>As the lead planetary protection engineer (surely one of the best job titles on Earth), she’s responsible for ensuring that missions we send to Mars don’t contaminate the environment with Earth-borne life and strictly controls what comes back from Mars, too.

<a></a>It’s a high-stakes mission in an environment that doesn’t forgive mistakes. The mission team’s work must therefore be close to perfect.

Achieving this means creating a culture of unflinching feedback, Dr. Cooper said. It means expecting that every time you propose an idea, your peers will stress-test it from every angle, looking for flaws and weaknesses.

<a></a>NASA’s mission team thrives in this culture of critical feedback by staying focused on a common goal.

<a></a>“That common goal may vary from company to company, but it's essentially something to the flavor of mission success,” she said.<a></a> “And so, if somebody is coming at you with a critical opinion, you have to remind yourself that we all want to get this spacecraft to the launch pad and operating successfully.<a></a> It takes a little bit of putting your ego to the side and really focusing on that goal.”

The best way for anyone to succeed, Dr. Cooper said, is to surround yourself with people who have your best interests at heart. This doesn’t mean telling you that you’re right all the time. But instead, telling you what you need to hear.

One of the most encouraging aspects of my discussion with Dr. Cooper was understanding more about the diverse mission team behind the Mars expedition.

<a></a>The lack of diversity in many STEM sectors has been a focus of many people, including myself, for many years. So, I celebrate a STEM team at the absolute pinnacle of its field leading by example.

<a></a>When I was at university studying electrical engineering, just six of my 130 classmates were women. While large, sustained efforts are still needed to get more women into STEM, we’re seeing plenty of bright spots.

In India, for example, 45% of STEM graduates are now women. But, as Dr. Cooper said, having a seat at the table is one thing. Having a voice is something else entirely.

“As we were working towards this mission, I was so pleasantly surprised when I would look around the room and there were many women in positions of power,” she said. “That’s an element that inspires and changes. When you can commit to having people in leadership positions, that’s when you can see real changes are going to be made.”

The Value of Perseverance

While Martian rocks may seem a long way from our everyday lives, missions like Perseverance are almost certain to have a big impact on tech you and I use every day. GPS, mobile phone cameras, CAT scans and even the humble computer mouse all have their origin in our efforts to better understand the cosmos.

As we celebrate International Space Week, it’s important to acknowledge an amazing year in space exploration. I, for one, am excited to see what trickles out of today’s efforts to explore other planets.

<a></a>And it’s worth mentioning that exactly one month after Perseverance failed in its first attempt to extract and store a Martian rock sample, it tried again. This time, the process worked beautifully. Perseverance, indeed.

The lead of planetary protection for the Mars 2020 Mission gives her take on what it means to fail. And it's a lesson worth remembering.

Planetary protection engineer for the Mars 2020 Mission gives her take on what it means to fail. And it's a lesson worth remembering.

The Value of Perseverance: Interview with Dr. Moogega Cooper

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Duncan Hewett is the senior vice president and general manager for VMware’s business in Asia Pacific &amp; Japan. In this role, Hewett is responsible for VMware’s sales, business strategy and services across the region. He is adept in executing go-to-market strategy across a multi-product and multi-cloud platform supporting digital transformation of enterprises and believes that a customer centric behavior is critical for an organization’s growth. &nbsp; Prior to this, Hewett was leading IBM’s Software business for Asia Pacific region. In his 29 year long career, he has held several senior leadership roles across IBM’s business units, including Enterprise Sales, Acquisition Integration, Subscription &amp; Support and Sales Operations. Duncan joined IBM’s software business through the acquisition of Lotus where he was the general manager responsible for all sales, marketing and services in Australia/New Zealand. &nbsp; Hewett graduated from the University of Sydney with a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

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As VMware focuses on delivering the trusted foundation to accelerate our customers’ innovation, we continue to hire the best talent in the industry.  Today, VMware announced that John Sabino has joined the company as our new Chief Customer Experience Officer. 

John joins us from Splunk where he was Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer. At Splunk, he oversaw the customer relationship, experience and digital journey for the company’s 18,000 customers. During his tenure he increased adoption and Professional Services revenue by 4x, improved global renewals rates by more than 15%, and drove the lowest cost of goods sold in the company while creating one of the most diverse and talented leadership teams within the company. Prior to Splunk, John held executive leadership roles at General Electric and NBC Universal and was a Captain in the United States Army. An experienced executive in the technology and software industries, John will be a key part of our company’s growth strategy helping our customers with enhanced global services, customer success, professional services and technical support.   

John graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business. As a former U.S. Army Captain, John also joins a large community of VMware military veterans. He currently resides in Westport, CT. 

Today, VMware announced John Sabino has joined the company as its new Chief Customer Experience Officer.

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First, there’s an understanding that every business is now defined by the applications they deliver. Competitive advantage lies in an organization’s ability to quickly build, run and secure apps when and where they are needed—both to engage end customers in new ways and to empower a distributed workforce. 

Second, as entire industries reinvent themselves through applications, the state-of-the-art model is to run those apps in multiple clouds. Why? Because savvy businesses want to tap into “best of the best” services from different cloud providers. They don’t want to be constrained or locked into any single cloud. Our analysis shows that 75% of our enterprise customers now use two or more public clouds, and 40% are moving to three or more. At this point it’s clear: multi-cloud is the model for digital business for the next 20+ years.

How did we get here? Most companies started in the cloud with a focus on building customer-facing mobile apps. Now they have expanded the aperture and are working to revamp and modernize their entire app portfolio. They want to “cloudify their core,” as one CIO described it.

Here’s the third key theme I hear consistently: While the leaders I talk to love the strategic advantages they get with multi-cloud – speed, business resilience, better customer experiences – those benefits come with distinct challenges. As one CIO I talked to put it: “Multi-cloud is here to stay, but we’re in the early days and it’s not easy. In fact, it’s hard right now.”

For starters, the typical app portfolio is incredibly diverse—from <a href="https://news.vmware.com/category/apps-cloud">cloud-native to core enterprise to SaaS apps</a>, and increasingly apps that extend to the edge, closer to the data and the user. And then there are the disparate clouds where you run those apps: Each one presents its own siloed set of tools and processes, creating friction for your developers and Ops teams.

Meanwhile, your customers and employees need instant access to all of these apps on a 24x7 basis. And the security you put in place better not slow them down. Put it all together, this is the most diverse and complex environment we’ve ever had to manage.

Enterprise Sovereignty: Freedom & Control in a Multi-Cloud World

In the end, what every organization wants is a balance between freedom and control. You want the speed, agility and choice of multi-cloud—tightly coupled with an ability to maintain full control of your environment and your spend. Put another way, every business wants to unlock the full value of multi-cloud without the complexity and without losing decision-making power.

I call this Enterprise Sovereignty. What do I mean by that? Just as data sovereignty is about controlling your data, enterprise sovereignty speaks at a higher level about retaining full control over your business.

You control your own destiny by maintaining freedom of choice—both in the decisions you make today and in preserving your strategic options for the future. In practice, this means that when you choose which cloud to build or run a particular application on, your decision is based entirely on the needs of the app and your business priorities. It’s about being “cloud smart,” with an ability to match every workload to the cloud that works best—with full access to that innovative machine-learning tool or analytics solution or database service that helps you compete and win.

Breaking Through Tough Choices

Going forward, multi-cloud is the de facto operating model for most enterprises. And it is the center of gravity for everything we do at VMware. Our focus is helping our customers capture all the advantages of multi-cloud by breaking through the tough choices that held you back in the past.

For example, rather than choose between private or public or edge clouds, you can utilize them all in a frictionless and secure way. Rather than choose between optimizing for developers or optimizing for Ops, your teams can now be united in modernizing applications. In short, we’re innovating to make multi-cloud easy, so organizations can move faster, spend less and be free.

In many ways, we’re all just getting started with multi-cloud. I look forward to continuing the conversation. Ultimately, it’s perspective and insights from you, our customers, that shapes what we do and where we focus our energy and innovation.

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Raghu Raghuram explores how enterprise sovereignty enables freedom and control in a multi-cloud world and how leaders can unlock value faster.

VMware's CEO on how organizations can "move faster, spend less and be free."

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Colbert will shape the technology vision for the company and drive foundational technologies for the company’s next stage of growth

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that Kit Colbert has been named VMware’s next Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Colbert joined VMware in 2003 as the technical lead behind the creation, development and delivery of the vMotion and Storage vMotion features in VMware vSphere. Throughout his tenure at VMware, he served in multiple roles, including VMware’s Cloud CTO, General Manager of VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps business, CTO for VMware’s End-User Computing Business, and as the lead architect for the VMware vRealize Operations Suite.

As part of his new role, Colbert will shape the technical vision for the company, and the transformation to a cloud and subscription-centric R&D organization. His oversight includes advancing research and development efforts, overseeing the VMware Engineering Services team, the Design/UX team and the company’s ESG commitments.

“It is with great pleasure that we welcome Kit into the position of CTO at VMware. Kit’s passion, proven technological savvy and excellent leadership capabilities will be instrumental in advancing our innovation engine and research and development efforts,” said Raghu Raghuram, CEO at VMware.

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