Ben Gibson is the Chief Marketing Officer of Nutanix where he oversees the company’s global marketing strategy to accelerate customer adoption of its enterprise cloud solutions. Before joining Nutanix, Ben was Chief Marketing Officer at F5 Networks, where he was responsible for leading the application networking and security company’s global marketing. Before F5 Networks, he served as Chief Marketing Officer at Veritas, where he supervised a global team of marketing professionals and led the company’s rebranding efforts following a spin-off from Symantec. Prior to Veritas, Ben spent five years as Chief Marketing Officer at Aruba Networks. During his tenure at Aruba the company tripled its annual revenue as it expanded from wireless networking into mobile security and location services. Earlier in his career, Ben held several marketing leadership roles at Cisco, including Vice President of Data Center/Virtualization Marketing. In this role he ran the outbound marketing strategy and execution for a number of Cisco’s application networking products. Ben holds a Bachelor’s degree from California State University - Long Beach.

Wendy is the CIO of Nutanix, where she leads the global Information Technology team and functions that support the company’s business operations and employees. Prior to Nutanix, Wendy led technology teams for industry-makers like GoPro, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Exodus Communications and Robert Half. Dedicated to excellence in operations and delivery while maintaining a focus on innovation, Wendy has played a key role in envisioning and delivering business technologies for the past two decades.

Rukmini Sivaraman joins our executive team as VP, Business Operations & Chief of Staff 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.

Ben Ravani is the SVP of Xi Reliability Engineering, where he oversees building and operating Xi Cloud Services and is also the General Manager of the Nutanix Seattle site. Ben brings over 28 years of experience in product engineering as well as building and operating mega cloud services. Prior to joining Nutanix, Ben was a Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Salesforce, driving the company’s efforts to scale the future of cloud for customer success. Before that, he was President and CEO of the Northwest Center, a social enterprise serving people with disabilities. Ben spent over 20 years at Microsoft developing products, cloud engineering and operations capabilities for B2B and B2C services. During his time there, he was General Manager for both Microsoft’s Service Engineering of Windows Live, including Hotmail, LiveID, OneDrive, and also Dynamics365. He holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inder is the Executive Vice President of Global Customer Success and Business Operations of Nutanix. He brings to the company 30 years of experience in the technology industry and a deep background of customer experience management, as well as strategic and operational expertise. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Strategy & Planning for Worldwide Sales at Cisco, where he architected Cisco’s global go-to-market engine, which helped the company grow from $1 billion in annual revenue to $50 billion. He also co-led Cisco’s $16 billion Enterprise business, its $7 billion Emerging Countries business, and its 1,200-person digitally-driven Worldwide Professional Services business. Prior to Cisco, Inder was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, an engineer with Intel and an entrepreneur at Excelan, a successful Silicon Valley start-up. He is a frequently requested speaker, and has taught at Harvard, Stanford, The Wharton School at UPenn and UC Berkeley.

Sammy Zoghlami is a Senior Vice President at Nutanix where he leads the EMEA organization.

He spent the last 18 years supporting customers in their journey to optimize IT operations and better serve business needs. After graduating from Business Administration degree from University of Hull, he started his career in London at Computacenter UK supporting Financial Services customers in their transformation towards consolidated and virtualized IT.

After moving back home to France, he held several business positions, including global account manager and Alliance Manager, before becoming Solutions Director for Computacenter France.

In 2009 he joined Cisco to introduce UCS on the French market and a major step towards the new concept of converged and automated infrastructure.

In 2013, Sammy discovered Nutanix, and was one of the first employees to join the company in EMEA as he saw it as the new generation of virtualization platform. His role at Nutanix has been to establish and develop Nutanix business in France, then South Europe and today across all of EMEA with teams operating in +35 countries.