Paul Maritz, President and CEO
Paul Maritz joined VMware in July 2008 as President and CEO. Prior to joining VMware, he was President of EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division after the company acquired Pi in February 2008 where he was the founder and CEO. Before founding Pi, he spent 14 years working at Microsoft, where he served as a member of the five-person Executive Committee that managed the overall company. As Vice President of the Platform Strategy and Developer Group, among other roles, he oversaw the development and marketing of System Software Products (including Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 2000), Development Tools (Visual Studio) and Database Products (SQL Server) and the complete Office and Exchange Product Lines. Prior to Microsoft, he spent five years working at Intel as a software and tools developer.
Born and raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Paul is a graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science of the Universities of Cape Town and Natal in South Africa. He serves on the board of VMware and several privately-held software companies. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Grameen Foundation, which sponsors third-world development projects and provides microfinance support around the world. He has an active interest in wildlife issues and in using technology to improve life in developing countries.
Executive Officers:
Carl Eschenbach, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations
Carl Eschenbach leads VMware field operations including sales, pre/post-sales engineering and global channel strategies. Carl has more than 20 years of experience in the high tech industry covering all aspects of technology including networking, telephony, storage and infrastructure software. Prior to joining VMware, Carl was vice president of North America Sales at Inktomi where he was instrumental in building out the North America sales, pre-sales engineering and field marketing organizations. He has also held various sales management positions with 3Com, EMC and Lucent Technologies.
Rashmi Garde, Vice President and General Counsel
Rashmi Garde oversees VMware's worldwide legal organization. She has over 15 years of software industry experience and previously held positions in the corporate legal department of Electronics for Imaging and with the law firms of Graham & James and Fenwick & West. Rashmi holds both a JD and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Mark Peek, Chief Financial Officer
Mark Peek oversees finance at VMware. Mark has more than 25 years of industry experience. He previously held the positions of Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Amazon.com. As Chief Accounting Officer, he oversaw the company's controllership, accounting, financial reporting and financial operations. Prior to joining Amazon.com in 2000, Mark was an audit partner at Deloitte, where he focused on technology companies and multi-national project and engagement management. Mark received a BS in accounting and international finance from Minnesota State University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
Functional Vice Presidents:
Brian Byun, Vice President of Global Alliances
Brian Byun leads VMware’s strategic alliances, corporate development and ecosystem development teams responsible for VMware’s OEM, IHV and ISV partnerships. Brian has more than 20 years of experience delivering and marketing enterprise server and storage solutions, application middleware and Internet security software. Prior to VMware, Brian led product management for Rhapsody Networks, an intelligent storage networking venture acquired by Brocade Communications. He has also held product management, professional services, partner marketing and lead engineering roles at AOL, HP and Netscape. Brian holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dan Chu, Vice President of Emerging Products and Markets
Dan Chu leads VMware’s efforts in the areas of small and medium business, virtual appliances, and cloud computing. Previously Dan was president and co-founder of a national managed service provider focused on SMBs, and he also held roles in management consulting at Bain & Company, engineering at IBM and venture capital at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Dan has an MBA and undergraduate degree from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Debra Hagan, Vice President of Global Support Services
Debra Hagan oversees VMware's global support and is responsible for advancing customer satisfaction and ensuring partner and customer success. Debra brings more than 20 years experience as a business leader in the high tech industry, specializing in enterprise support and services management. Prior to joining VMware, she held executive and management level positions at companies such as Serena Software, Sun Microsystems and Sybase. Debra holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dr. Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer
Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware's new technologies and technology collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups. He has led the VMware ESX group through numerous successful releases. Prior to joining VMware, Stephen was Senior Director of Software at Transmeta Corporation co-leading development of their "Code Morphing" technology. Stephen holds a Ph.D. and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University where he worked with VMware's founders on the SimOS machine simulation project.
Kate Hutchison, Vice President of Strategic Communications
Kate Hutchison oversees worldwide corporate communications, including global public relations, executive communications and customer marketing at VMware and she is responsible for coordinating strategic messaging across the company. Kate has 20 years of experience in high technology marketing, and helped launch VMware’s first product, VMware Workstation, in 1999. Kate was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Citrix from 2002 to 2006 and was Senior Vice President of Marketing at BEA from 1999 to 2002. Her experience also includes senior marketing roles at several high-tech and biotech startups. Kate has a master’s degree from San Francisco State University and a bachelor’s degree from Long Island University, Southampton College, New York.
Jeff Jennings, Vice President of Products and Solutions, Desktop
Jeff Jennings leads worldwide product development and marketing of VMware’s desktop products. Prior to his current role, Jeff was the Vice President of Worldwide Systems Engineering. Before joining VMware, Jeff was member of the Domino Product Management team, focusing on Messaging Platform Upgrades, at Lotus Development Corp. Before that, he served as a commissioned officer in the US Navy. Jeff graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. in Systems Engineering.
Raghu Raghuram, Vice President of Products and Solutions
Raghu Raghuram leads worldwide product marketing, product management, and business planning for the datacenter, SMB, and emerging markets . Raghu also has responsibility for shared product marketing services. Since joining VMware, he has held multiple roles in product management and marketing, most recently running product marketing for the VMware Infrastructure product line. Prior to VMware, Raghu has held product management and marketing roles at AOL, Bang Networks and Netscape. Raghu holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Karthik Rau, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing
Karthik oversees worldwide marketing. This includes global demand generation and branding campaigns, channel marketing, alliance marketing, marketing communications, global events and web. Karthik previously held multiple roles in product development, most recently running worldwide product management for VMware's server product line. Prior to VMware, Karthik worked at Loudcloud where he led product management for the Opsware datacenter automation product suite. He has also worked in product management for Responsys.com and in the fixed income derivatives group at J.P. Morgan. Karthik has both a bachelors and masters degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a Terman Scholar.
Tayloe Stansbury, Chief Information Officer
Tayloe Stansbury leads VMware’s worldwide information systems infrastructure, with a focus on showcasing and taking advantage of VMware’s technologies. Tayloe also leads the worldwide facilities function at VMware, thus coordinating IT and facilities seamlessly. Tayloe has more than 24 years of experience in the software industry, most recently as executive vice president of Ariba, where he led engineering, product management, hosting, IT and customer support. Previously, Tayloe held executive engineering and general management roles at Calico Commerce and Xerox. Before that, he worked on developer tools at Borland and Sun, and did research in computational linguistics at Xerox PARC. Tayloe graduated with honors in math and computer science from Harvard University.
Betsy Sutter, Vice President of Human Resources
Betsy Sutter is responsible for human resources at VMware. Prior to this role, she was vice president of human resources for Silicon Gaming. Betsy has more than 20 years of experience in human resources management including management positions with Aehr Test Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation and General Electric/Intersil. Betsy holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley.
VMware Co-Founders:
Diane Greene (1998 – 2008)
Diane Greene was the President and CEO of VMware, Inc. Under Diane's leadership, VMware created the market for mainstream virtualization and the resulting virtualization software industry. Diane has held technical leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Sybase and Tandem and was CEO of VXtreme. Diane's degrees include mechanical engineering, naval architecture and computer science from the University of Vermont, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California Berkeley, respectively. Diane serves on the board of Intuit and is a member of the MIT Corporation.
Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, Chief Scientist (1998 – 2008)
Mendel Rosenblum is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads a group focused on operating systems research. Together with his students, he developed the Hive operating system, the SimOS machine simulator and the Disco virtual machine monitor. In 2002, he received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award for his creativity, innovation and vision in operating systems research. He holds a doctorate and master's degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia.
Scott Devine, Principal Engineer (1998 – present)
Scott Devine was a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford University prior to co-founding VMware. His primary research interests are in operating systems and computer architectures, and he was a key member of the SimOS and Disco virtual machine research teams. He holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a master's degree from Stanford University.
Dr. Edward Wang, Principal Engineer (1998 - present)
Edward Wang has more than 10 years of high tech industry experience. Prior to joining VMware, he worked as a principal engineer at VXtreme and Mindcraft and has consulted extensively on UNIX software projects. In 1993, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Usenix for his contributions to the development of Berkeley UNIX. He also helped to neutralize the infamous Internet Worm virus by discovering and describing one of its key mechanisms. He holds a doctorate and master's degree in computer science and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Edouard Bugnion (1998 – 2004)
Edouard Bugnion was the Chief Technology Officer of VMware, Inc. He was a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford University prior to co-founding VMware. His primary research interests are in operating systems and computer architectures, and he was a key member of the SimOS and Disco virtual machine research teams. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich and a master's degree from Stanford University.
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