Dheeraj is the Founder, CEO & Chairman of Nutanix. He brings a wealth of experience of working at high growth enterprise software companies. Prior to founding Nutanix, Dheeraj was the VP of Engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team from the ground up. At Oracle, he managed the storage engine group for Oracle Database/Exadata, and co-authored numerous patents in the area of distributed databases. Dheeraj’s entrepreneurial spirit has been recognized with a number of prestigious awards including Dell’s Founders 50 and the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon Valley. Dheeraj is a Ph.D. dropout from University of Texas (Austin), where he was a Graduate Fellow of CS. He holds a BS in CS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Kanpur), where he was adjudged the “Best All-Rounder Student Among All Graduating Students in All Disciplines” and bestowed with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dheeraj is also on the Board of Directors at Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE).

Induprakas (Indu) Keri is Chief Product Security Officer at Nutanix. In this role, he leads Nutanix’s companywide product security efforts and also operations for Nutanix’s Xi cloud offerings. As a long time C-level executive, Indu has served as Chief Operating Officer at Limelight Networks, CTO at SunGard and CISO at Intuit. Currently, he is also a visiting scholar at MIT where he works on the OpenMusic initiative.

Indu started off his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics (SGI) where he implemented his dissertation work into the high-end parallelizing compiler delivered by SGI. His other work experience includes stints at McKinsey & Company, BEA Systems and Oracle. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.

Rajiv has held various engineering leadership roles in the areas of networking and application security. Most recently, he was vice president of engineering at Citrix where he led research and development on the NetScaler product line. Prior to joining Citrix, Rajiv was a co-founder and vice president of engineering at Teros, a pioneering company in the area of application firewalls. Teros was acquired by Citrix in 2005. Rajiv holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

David is the Chief Operating Officer at Nutanix, where he oversees all aspects of SaaS Engineering, Manufacturing and Customer Support. David brings more than 20 years of product development, manufacturing and operations experience to the company. Most recently, he was at EMC, where he held the position of VP of Manufacturing Technology. Prior to EMC, he was VP of Operations at Data Domain (acquired by EMC in 2009) where he built out the manufacturing and supply chain capabilities to scale the company through a successful IPO in 2007. Previously, David held senior positions at Hewlett Packard and McDATA in a variety of engineering and manufacturing management positions. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, a Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Rukmini Sivaraman joins our executive team as SVP, People & Business Ops to CEO. She brings a combination of extensive finance and technology experience. She comes from Goldman Sachs where she spent 8 years executing strategic transactions including IPOs, mergers & acquisitions, and debt financing for technology companies. Rukmini is also an electrical engineer, and enjoys working at the intersection of technology and business. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she worked at Cypress Semiconductor. Rukmini has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Duston is a well-recognized industry leader with more than 30 years of financial management experience in both public and private technology companies, including over 20 years as a CFO. During his career, Duston has served as the CFO of two multi-billion dollar revenue companies and raised well over $3 billion in financing. Over the past 10 years, he has led three companies through an IPO, including his most recent IPO at Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX). Prior to joining Nutanix, Duston led Gigamon’s (NYSE: GIMO) $150 million IPO. Prior to Gigamon, Duston served as CFO of Sandforce through its $400 million acquisition by LSI Corporation (NASDAQ: LSI). Before Sandforce, Duston led Infinera’s (NASDAQ: INFN) $210 million IPO in June 2007, along with a $220 million secondary offering in October 2007. Duston also served as CFO of Maxtor Corporation (NASDAQ: MXTR) where he played a significant role in its sale to Seagate (NASDAQ: STX). During his 14-year tenure at Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), including four years as CFO, the company grew from $200 million to over $4 billion in revenues.

Ajay Aggarwal has been working with Nutanix as a Senior Vice President of Global System Engineers & Services for 4 and a half years. Ajay is responsible for managing all technical work done by the sales organizations in the Americas along with services delivery and enablement worldwide. He brings 15+ years of systems engineering management and sales roles. Prior to Nutanix Ajay spent significant time at Palo Alto Networks, Varonis, Juniper Networks (through the acquisition of Neoteris), Nortel Networks (through the acquisition of Alteon Websystems) and Accenture.

Ricardo is the SVP of Development at Nutanix. Prior to joining the company, he was the Vice President of Engineering, Operations and Support for SAP. Before SAP, he was VP of Engineering and Operations at Altiscale, a cloud service company. Ricardo was also the first “Launch Czar” at Google, where he led Google’s first cross-functional effort to improve product launches. While at Google, Ricardo was also heavily involved in improving innovation practices and led engineering for the company’s first enterprise product, Google Search Appliance. He has also held roles at Palm Computing, Netscape Communications, General Magic, Oracle and Tenfold. Ricardo holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, where he was a Palmer Scholar.

As Senior Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing, Monica drives the global go-to-market engine including strategy, messaging, thought leadership, category creation campaigns, sales programs and enablement. Monica started working at Oracle in 1997 and her most recent role before joining Nutanix was Vice President of Oracle Cloud Platform Marketing where she led global product marketing for the company’s flagship data management portfolio, including Autonomous Database. In her tenure at Oracle, Monica launched several industry-leading products in the Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service markets and built businesses from idea to hyper-growth. Before joining Oracle, Monica worked in product marketing at Informix. She currently serves on the board of directors at Watermark. Monica was recognized by CDA Consulting Group as a “2017 Powerful Women of the Bay” and a “2017 Women of Influence” by The Silicon Valley Business Journal. Monica holds a B.E. in mechanical engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur and an MBA from San Jose State University.

Sankalp brings to Nutanix more than 30 years of multinational experience managing, growing and working with Fortune 500 companies and technology startups. Before joining Nutanix he served as Founder of Transformation Labs, where he led a team that focused on identifying and mentoring early stage startups to bring innovative ideas to market. Sankalp has been responsible for customer acquisition, strategic partnerships, and global development centers for companies such as i2, SLK, and IBS. He has been a global professional, having worked in the US, Japan, and India. Saxena holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Lehigh University.

Matt Young is Senior Vice President for Nutanix Asia Pacific and Japan, where he is responsible for leading all aspects of Nutanix’s operations across the region, including leading sales and support, business planning and strategy development, customer care, management of Nutanix’s country offices, and Nutanix’s alliances and channel strategy across the region while ensuring a superior customer experience. Matt brings over 20 years of global sales and executive management experience to Nutanix, growing and scaling emerging technology companies. Prior to joining Nutanix, he served as Vice President of Asia Pacific for Nicira Networks which was acquired by VMware in 2012 for $1.2B. During his more than 20 years in the technology industry, Matt has served on the executive management teams of Blue Coat Systems, Fortinet, Cosine, ACT Networks, Lucent Technologies and Transition Networks. Matt received his bachelor of individualized studies and a minor in Chinese and Japanese from the University of Minnesota.