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Mark Rober

Founder and CEO of CrunchLabs

Mark Rober has amassed over 14 billion views by creating incredible science-focused builds and pranks on his YouTube channel, with 70 million subscribers and counting. In the summer of 2022, Rober announced his secret project, called CrunchLabs, a massive Willy Wonka-style factory of creativity in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the team creates each original, buildable engineering toys and the super fun (and science-packed) videos from scratch with an express focus on getting as many brains as possible excited about science and engineering. Since its founding, CrunchLabs has offered a monthly subscription for kids that delivers original STEM toys and exclusive videos that entertain and teach STEM principles. Kids can't get enough - the first run of Build Box sold out in under a week. Build Box's success paved the way for Hack Pack, the second product from CrunchLabs that demystifies coding and robotics for teens and adults with robot-in-a-box builds. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of subscribers and millions of boxes shipped. Plus, there are a few lucky subscribers each month who win an expenses-paid trip to hang out with Mark at his secret lab and more. Rober is also known for his YouTube videos, including glitter bombing porch pirates and phone scammers, making mazes for squirrels in his backyard, the world's largest and smallest Nerf gun, and more. In 2020, he hosted a Livestream with Jimmy Kimmel called Color the Spectrum, which raised over $3M to support Autistic Adults in their communities. In 2019 Rober co-founded #TeamTrees alongside fellow YouTube creator MrBeast, which raised $20 million to plant 20 million trees. In late 2021, they followed up with #TeamSeas, which raised $30 million to clean up 30 million pounds of trash and plastic from rivers, beaches, and oceans

Kelsey Hightower

Former Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud

25 year tech industry veteran and retired Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer, Kelsey Hightower is an active open source contributor, technical advisor, author, and speaker pushing forward industry standards, and democratizing technology.

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Rajiv Ramaswami

Chief Executive Officer, Nutanix

Mr. Ramaswami has served as our Chief Executive Officer since December 2020. A seasoned technology industry executive, Mr. Ramaswami has more than 30 years of experience spanning software, cloud services, and network infrastructure. He brings to our company a proven track record of building and scaling enterprises and teams, having a strong customer-centric approach, operational execution and developing innovative products and solutions to drive growth and value creation. Prior to joining Nutanix, Mr. Ramaswami served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services at VMware from October 2016 until December 2020. From April 2016 to October 2016, Mr. Ramaswami led VMware’s Networking and Security business as Executive Vice President and General Manager. Mr. Ramaswami served as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom from February 2010 to January 2016, where he established Broadcom as a leader in data center, enterprise, and carrier networking. Prior to Broadcom, he served in multiple General Manager roles at Cisco across switching, data center, storage and optical networking business units. Earlier in his career, he held various leadership positions at Nortel, Tellabs, and IBM. Mr. Ramaswami has served on the board of directors of Marvell Technology, Inc., a semiconductor company, since July 2025. Mr. Ramaswami also served as a member of the board of directors of NeoPhotonics Corporation, a manufacturer of telecommunications circuits, from March 2014 to August 2022. Mr. Ramaswami is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and holds 36 patents, primarily in optical networking. Mr. Ramaswami holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Manosiz Bhattacharyya

Chief Technology Officer, Nutanix

Manosiz Bhattacharyya (Mano) is the Chief Technology Officer at Nutanix. He has been in the company for over a decade, and has held various engineering and product management leadership roles. Manosiz started as an individual contributor and an early employee, building the hyper-converged distributed storage stack. He then moved on to lead and run Engineering and Product Management for Nutanix core infrastructure services. Currently, Manosiz leads the future architecture and technology direction for Nutanix, partnering with customers to understand their requirements and use cases and working with them to provide appropriate solutions. His primary interest is in hybrid cloud use cases and new workloads that can run on Nutanix. Before Nutanix, Manosiz held technology leadership roles in the RDBMS kernel group in Oracle, focusing on data and transaction management. While at Oracle, he also worked extensively on the database layer of the Exadata DB appliance - converging the DB compute into the storage layer.
Manosiz is a keen technology enthusiast holding several U.S. patents. He has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Lee Caswell

Senior Vice President, Product and Solutions Marketing, Nutanix

Lee is the Nutanix SVP for Product and Solutions Marketing. Lee is well-known for accelerating the adoption of new technologies and came to Nutanix from VMware where he was VP Product Marketing. Lee has extensive leadership experience in the storage, flash and virtualization markets including past executive roles at NetApp, Fusion-IO, and Adaptec. Lee started his career at General Electric and holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Dartmouth College.

Dan Ciruli

VP, General Manager, Cloud Native, Nutanix

Dan Ciruli leads the Cloud Native business at Nutanix and runs the Cloud Native product management team. His (very long) career in product management includes stints at Google, Zuora and EMC, and in open source he was a founding member of the OpenAPI Initiative and sat on the Istio Steering Committee. In his spare time he’s active in acting and musical theatre…and give him half a chance and he’ll try to speak Spanish to you.

Thomas Cornely

EVP, Product Management, Nutanix

Thomas Cornely is the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix, leading the company’s product portfolio strategy. He brings more than two decades of experience in product and engineering leadership roles in enterprise infrastructure software, storage, cloud and data management. Before joining Nutanix, Cornely served as Vice President of Product Management at Rubrik. Prior to Rubrik, he was Chief Product Officer at Nexenta Systems (acquired by DataDirect Networks) where he was responsible for product strategy, planning and delivery. He also held senior product leadership roles working on scale-out analytics data platforms at Greenplum (acquired by EMC) and cross platform storage and availability management software (VxVM, VxFS, CFS and VCS) at Veritas (acquired by Symantec). Thomas received his MBA from MIT Sloan in Cambridge, MA and holds a Master in EE/CS from CentraleSupélec in France.

Mandy Dhaliwal

Chief Marketing Officer, Nutanix

Mandy Dhaliwal is the Chief Marketing Officer at Nutanix where she oversees the company’s global marketing strategy to accelerate customer adoption of its enterprise hybrid multicloud solutions. Before joining Nutanix, Mandy was the Chief Marketing Officer for Boomi where she was responsible for leading, planning and executing the company's go-to-market, brand presence, product marketing, demand generation, partner marketing, field marketing, customer advocacy, strategic events and corporate communications programs. Mandy has more than 25 years of B2B experience in driving growth and innovation strategies across the cloud and software markets. During her career, Mandy has held senior leadership positions at venture-backed startups and public corporations like Fugue, BlazeMeter, SOASTA, EMC, and Legato Systems. Mandy holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management and Marketing from Simon Fraser University.

Tarkan Maner

President & Chief Commercial Officer, Nutanix

Tarkan Maner is the Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix where he leads global business development and corporate development efforts, with a focus on strategic partnerships, alliances, system integrators, and service providers. Additionally, his responsibilities include leading critical hybrid cloud-focused strategy and product teams including Nutanix’s core virtualization platform (AHV), software-defined networking, and some of the key hybrid cloud services. Before joining Nutanix, he served as Chairman and CEO at Nexenta Systems, Inc., leading the organization from its open-source focus through its acquisition by DataDirect Networks (DDN) in May 2019. Prior to Nexenta, he was the President and CEO at Wyse Technology, one of the virtual desktop computing pioneers acquired by Dell in 2012. He also held executive roles at Dell, CA Technologies, IBM, and Sterling Software. Tarkan serves and served on the boards of several organizations including Teradici, CloudCheckr, Wheels, and leading non-profit organizations in Silicon Valley. Tarkan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering management, an MBA from Midwestern State University and an AMP from Harvard Business School.

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Amin Aflatoonian

Senior Product Manager, Nutanix

Amin brings over two decades of expertise in technology and network infrastructure to his role as a Senior Product Manager at Nutanix. With a strong background in software-defined networking and a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions, he plays a pivotal role in driving the Nutanix networking roadmap. With his PhD in networking and telecom, his comprehensive understanding of the field, coupled with his customer-facing experience and innovation background at leading networking companies such as Juniper and Orange, he is uniquely positioned to drive impactful solutions that meet customer needs and success.

Alex Almeida

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Nutanix

Alex Almeida is a well-known Product Marketing Manager who has worked in the tech industry for 24 years. He’s worked in different roles, from engineering to technical marketing and product management. Driven by a passion for helping customers unlock the full potential of technology, Alex has never looked back. His latest adventure has taken him deep into the world of AI, where he’s been exploring cutting-edge use cases and even using AI to craft this very bio. When he’s not diving into the latest tech trends, Alex can be found cheering for his favorite soccer teams, exploring new destinations, and adding to his extensive vinyl record collection as a true music aficionado.

Alex Alvord

Advisory Solution Architect, Nutanix

Alex is a seasoned Solutions Architect with significant experience in disruptive technologies. With a focus on cloud computing services, his mission is to help clients adopt automation, orchestration, and elasticity, enabling a self-service IT model and a service-oriented architecture. His specialties include: application modernization, datacenter divestment, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) design/methodology, orchestration, and automation.

Kapil Anandani

Technical Marketing Engineer, NKP and Cloud Native, Nutanix

Kapil Anandani is a Technical Marketing Engineer with over 10 years of experience in cloud native technologies, networking, and security in hybrid cloud environments. Kapil's expertise in software-defined networking and containerized workloads has made him a sought-after speaker for .NEXT 2026. He is passionate about bridging complex technical concepts with practical implementation.

Andre Fiano

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Chewy

Andre Fiano is a Staff Engineer for private cloud infrastructure, dealing primarily with virtualization, compute, and storage. He has over 20+ years of experience in technology, the last 10 years being primarily focused on datacenter maintenance, growth, and agility. He believes automation is driving the modernization of applications and other datacenter technologies and is experienced in various automation technologies.

Andrew Rae

IT Systems Engineering Lead, Quantinuum

Andrew Rae is a senior infrastructure leader with deep, hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise platforms built on Nutanix. He specializes in large-scale cluster design, AHV adoption, platform modernization, and building resilient, secure infrastructure that supports both traditional and next-generation workloads. At Quantinuum, Andrew leads and contributes to multi-site Nutanix environments, delivering highly available, scalable platforms across global data centers. His work includes full-stack Nutanix architecture—from storage and compute to automation, lifecycle management, and operational best practices—while partnering closely with stakeholders to align infrastructure with business outcomes. A Nutanix Certified Master and long-time Nutanix Technology Champion, Andrew is an active community contributor and frequent speaker at Nutanix user groups and events. His talks focus on real-world Nutanix implementations, platform reliability, VMware exit strategies, and operating Nutanix at enterprise scale.

S Ashok

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Ashok has spent his career working on virtualization of storage, compute, and networking in datacenters. As an engineer he has worked on the full stack, from hypervisor to private cloud to public cloud integration. He spent the last four years as a product manager for hybrid cloud, working on ease-of-use and frictionless adoption of hybrid cloud solutions. He’s currently a Principal Product Manager for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).

Avinash Shetty

Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix

Avinash Shetty is Vice President, Product Management at Nutanix. Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, freeing customers to focus on their business outcomes. Avinash joined Nutanix in 2013 as one of the early Product Managers driving product direction, specifically the NX portfolio roadmap. Over the years, he was responsible for pricing and licensing, sales, operations and helping the company pivot to software and subscription selling. He is focused on the broader Nutanix portfolio strategy, cross product roadmap as well as dissecting the broader competitive landscape. With a background in engineering and Product Management and his ability to work across various teams within the organization, he has worn multiple hats at this time at Nutanix and filled gaps in various domains when needed. He has the rare ability to connect with customers while having a depth of knowledge across multiple disciplines. Before Nutanix, Avinash spent 5 years at Riverbed Technology, working in various roles and working closely with customers and internal organizations with a focus on the networking and storage domains. He helped shape early workloads and use cases for the SteelFusion product line. He also spent 8 years at Cisco Systems, working in the security space on the PIX/ASA product line. Avinash graduated from the University of Southern California with an M.S. in Computer Science. He lives in Palo Alto, CA and likes to tinker with various technologies, stay active and spend time with his two kids.

Kees Baggerman

Technical Senior Director - Engineering, Nutanix

Kees Baggerman is the Senior Technical Director for Nutanix Solutions Engineering, specializing in End-User Computing (EUC), Healthcare, and hybrid cloud architectures. With over a decade of experience at Nutanix and extensive knowledge across the EUC ecosystem, Kees helps organizations design and optimize secure, high-performance digital workspaces at scale. A frequent speaker at industry events such as Nutanix .NEXT and World of EUC, he is passionate about delivering real-world insights on performance, scalability, and simplicity in modern environments.

Sukumar Bairi

Staff Database Admin, Nutanix

Sukumar Bairi is a Staff Database Administrator at Nutanix, where he is a key contributor to the company's Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform, a strategic initiative that empowers users to discover, curate, and share business-critical data. His work involves simplifying and modernizing the data infrastructure, such as transitioning to Nutanix Objects to create a more efficient and scalable data foundation.
He is instrumental in preparing the Nutanix data ecosystem for Generative AI, enabling AI-driven use cases and modernizing the data warehouse to support advanced analytics. Through his efforts, he helps make data more accessible and AI-ready, enabling teams across Nutanix to leverage data as a strategic asset.

Vivek Baveja

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Vivek Baveja is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, leading the Service Provider portfolio. He brings decades of experience spanning first service provider networks to modern hyperscale cloud platforms, including AWS, with a focus on building scalable, multi-tenant cloud services.

Abhishek Bhaiya

Senior Director, Service Provider, Nutanix

Abhishek Bhaiya joined Nutanix in 2020 and leads the global service provider program team at Nutanix. In this role, Abhishek leads a global team to develop and manage programs and go to market strategy to support our growing list of service provider partners. Prior to Nutanix, he led strategic planning and business operations at Infinera. Abhishek holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Arvind Bhoj

Staff Solutions Architect - Cloud Native, Nutanix

Arvind is a Staff Solutions Architect for cloud native technology at Nutanix. Arvind has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry and is extremely passionate about Kubernetes and Cloud & IT infrastructure automation/integration. He has extensive experience in product engineering as well as working directly with customers in the field with large organizations across the globe to help them in their cloud native and container orchestration journey.

Dave Brett

Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Dave Brett is a Staff Solutions Architect at Nutanix, specialising in End-User Computing (EUC) and digital workspace transformation. With extensive experience helping organisations deliver secure, performant virtual desktop and application solutions, he combines deep technical expertise with a passion for simplifying user experiences. Dave is a recognised community contributor and frequent speaker at industry events.

Chris Brown

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Nutanix

Chris Brown brings over 10 years of experience in IT, spanning support, development, and product marketing. Currently a Product Marketing Manager at Nutanix, Chris focuses on cloud native solutions with an emphasis on the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. With a passion for technology, he enjoys sharing his expertise and insights to help others navigate the evolving IT landscape.

Mat Brown

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Based in East London, Mat joined the UK team as a Cloud Architect and Systems Engineer more than 6 years ago. Before Nutanix he had IT roles across customers, vendors and service providers, large and small. Most notably he’s been a Lead Technical Architect at a Global Systems Integrator working on large multi-supplier transition projects, and a Technical Architect at a Nutanix customer that ran a SaaS service for the legal industry. Three years ago, Mat joined the Technical Marketing Engineering team and now focuses on Nutanix Cloud Clusters and how hybrid multicloud can address a multitude of challenges for organizations all around the world.

Jason Burns

Director, NCI Technical Marketing Managment, Nutanix

Jason Burns is a Technical Marketing Director and CCIE Collaboration #20707. He designs, tests, and documents virtual networking on the Nutanix platform, creating guides, demos, and training for customers and the field. Jason has designed and supported virtual infrastructure in the enterprise for the past decade, connecting hundreds of thousands of end-users. Outside of his day job, he has an unusual passion for certificates, security, and rock climbing.

Steve Carter

Product Marketing Management Director - NCI, Nutanix

Steve Carter is the Director of Product Marketing for the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, where he focuses on helping enterprises simplify cloud native operations. With a Computer Science degree from UCSB and early career experience as a software developer, Steve combines deep technical insight with a passion for simplifying complex technical problems. During his tenure at Nutanix, he has held roles in engineering and sales engineering before moving into marketing, where he focuses on making Kubernetes accessible and practical for modern enterprises.

Krishna Chakra Karanam

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Krishna Chakra Karanam brings over 15 years of experience building cloud, security, and enterprise infrastructure products. At Nutanix, he is part of the Flow Product Management team, driving innovations that strengthen workload protection across private and public cloud environments.

Anand Chandak

Group Product Manager, Nutanix

Anand Chandak is a Product Manager at Nutanix, focusing on Nutanix Database Service (NDB). He works with customers, engineering, and partners to simplify database lifecycle operations for PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other enterprise databases on Nutanix.

Brahmanna Chowdary Kodavali

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Brahmanna Chowdary Kodavali is the product manager for Nutanix Unified Storage with primary focus on Objects. He brings over two decades of product experience in the storage and Datacenter infrastructure solutions. He has delivered successful solutions to meet the evolving needs of Nutanix customers. Prior to Nutanix, he was with NetApp, managing software defined storage across edge, core, and cloud, along with partner integrations with NetApp.

Chris Hedrick

Technical Architecture Manager, Dawn Foods

Chris is a Technical Architecture Manager at Dawn Foods. He oversees the server team and leads their overall technical architecture as part of the Enterprise Architecture group. Throughout his time at Dawn, he has had the opportunity to serve in a variety of roles both inside and outside of IT. That experience has helped him bring a strong business-minded perspective to technology decisions and long term strategic planning.

Christian Goffi

VP, Americas Channel Sales, Nutanix

Christian Goffi is a seasoned technology sales leader with over 25 years of experience driving high-impact growth through global channel, partner, and go-to-market strategies. With a strong track record in the reseller space, he excels in bridging the gap between manufacturers and resellers - building scalable partner ecosystems that deliver mutual value and accelerate revenue. Throughout his career, Christian has led international teams that expanded partner pipelines, launched new product lines via channel networks, and enabled cross-border sales initiatives across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. He has a deep understanding of how to architect programs, incentives, and enablement frameworks that turn partners into revenue engines. In recent years, Christian has focused on leveraging AI, automation, and orchestration technologies to make partner collaboration smarter, more efficient, and more resilient. He has pioneered strategies that drive higher partner engagement, reduce friction in joint sales cycles, and improve alignment between engineering, marketing, and field teams. Christian's leadership style is centered on transparency, growth mindset, and shared success. He sees partners not as channels - but as strategic extensions of your business. He proactively listens, adapts, and aligns incentives to create an environment where all parties win. Christian brings not only deep domain expertise but also a visionary mindset: he understands that the future of technology sales is about co-innovation, digital transformation, and creating resilient partner ecosystems that can evolve with market disruption.

Luke Congdon

Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix

Luke Congdon is a Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix based in Silicon Valley and leads product management for Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), the Nutanix native hypervisor (AHV), and End-User Computing (EUC). Prior to Nutanix, Luke has built and brought numerous products to market including start-up MVPs and billion-dollar product lines at seminal Silicon Valley technology companies including VMware, NetApp, and Sun Microsystems. Luke travels the world speaking to customers running world-class datacenters, discovering customer needs, and building products that solve customer problems. Luke received his Master of Business Administration at Santa Clara University and Bachelor of Science at the University of Connecticut. He also attended Harvard University’s Leadership for Senior Executives program. He has been embedded in Silicon Valley technology companies since 2000.

Aniket Daptari

Senior Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Aniket is a Senior Director of Product Management at Nutanix. He leads the global team of product managers responsible for all Nutanix Networking and Network Security product offerings. Aniket joined Nutanix 6 years ago and helped build this portfolio practically from the ground up. He joined Nutanix after a long career in various network equipment vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Force10, Allied Telesis) in different engineering and product leadership roles. In his last role prior to Nutanix, he was one of the earliest PMs to launch the industry's first wave of Software Defined Networking and Network Security products while at Juniper Networks.

Pradhan Das K.

Senior Technical Project Manager, SAP Solutions, Nutanix

Pradhan Das Krishnamurthy is a seasoned SAP professional with over 17 years of experience in SAP Basis, HANA, and enterprise cloud integrations. As Senior Technical Project Manager at Nutanix, he leads global SAP certification, benchmarking, and performance initiatives, working closely with leading hardware vendors to optimize SAP architecture for business-critical applications. His career includes impactful roles at SAP Labs, Infosys, and IBM, where he drove large-scale SAP implementations, upgrades, and automation frameworks.
Pradhan holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science. During his tenure at Nutanix, he has been a key contributor in building the SAP practice and was one of the engineers instrumental in achieving the Nutanix SAP HANA on HCI certification. Passionate about innovation and operational excellence, he focuses on enabling high-performance SAP landscapes on modern cloud platforms.

David Cramer

Senior Systems Engineer, Purdue University

David Cramer graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and is an accomplished IT professional with over four decades of experience in computing. His expertise spans network operating systems and hypervisor technologies, including Novell NetWare, 3COM 3+ Share and 3+ Open, IBM LAN Manager, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, and Nutanix AHV. For the past 17 years, David has served as a Senior Systems Engineer at Purdue University on the Hosting Infrastructure team, overseeing more than 3,000 virtual machines across ESXi and AHV platforms. His responsibilities also include data continuity and disaster recovery using Veeam. Recent speaking engagements include participation in Nutanix’s “Turkey Talk” and a partner spotlight event with Nerdio.

David Edmeads

Cloud Engineer, Williams

David Edmeads is a Cloud Analyst III at Williams, where he leads cloud networking and infrastructure initiatives across Azure and Google Cloud. With 13 years of experience spanning data center operations, enterprise networking, and cloud infrastructure, David has deployed Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) in both Azure and Google Cloud Platform, enabling cross-cloud workload mobility and unified hybrid cloud management. Prior to Williams, David served as an Azure Customer Engineer at Microsoft, providing deep technical expertise in hybrid connectivity, routing, and network security for U.S. Government customers. At Phillips 66, he was part of the company's digital transformation network initiatives, including cloud firewall deployments and Azure ExpressRoute monitoring solutions. David holds AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Azure Fundamentals, and Cisco CCNA Enterprise certifications. He specializes in multi-cloud design, hybrid connectivity, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.

Dave Gwyn

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels, Nutanix

Dave Gwyn is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels at Nutanix, managing global routes-to-market via more than 7,000 Nutanix partners. Nutanix relies on its Channels organization to drive sales, services, and effective adoption throughout the customer subscription lifecycle. Prior to joining Nutanix in 2012, he held leadership positions in sales and consulting at VMware, BEA, Plumtree, Silverstream, and Sybase. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and spent the early part of his career as a programmer, including four years on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope program. He was named one of the “Trending 40”, voted one of DC’s leading innovators, and was named one of Channel Futures’ Top 20 Cloud Channel Leaders for 2022. He lives in Potomac, Maryland with his wife and four children.

Luke Davis

Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Nutanix

Luke Davis leads the Enterprise Architecture team for EMEA. With over 17 years of experience in the industry, he has leveraged his expertise to drive innovation and excellence. He is passionate about inspiring customers to achieve their goals and ambitions through his leadership and technical capabilities. He has also been responsible for delivering many large-scale, business-critical platform transformations to support customer business objectives.

He is passionate about sharing his experience, enabling customers, partners, and his peers.

Debojyoti Dutta

Chief AI Officer, Nutanix

Debojyoti Dutta (Debo) currently leads Al engineering at Nutanix and is a board advisor of MLCommons (mlcommons.org). Prior to this he led engineering for Nutanix's cloud management portfolio including Al driven operations and cost governance. Before Nutanix, Debo was a visiting scholar at Stanford (Management sciences and engineer-ing), a founding member of MLCommons and a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. He obtained his postdoctoral training in computational biology and a PhD in computer science from the University of Southern California and a BTech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Bhavik Desai

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, NCI and AOS, Nutanix

Bhavik Desai is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer focusing on Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and AOS. Over the past year Bhavik's focus has been around Nutanix integration with external storage vendors from an AOS perspective. Bhavik was part of the performance engineering team at Nutanix before making the transition to Technical Marketing and has been in the data storage, virtualization and cloud computing industry for 15 years.

Guhen Devendran

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Guhendran Devendran is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, specializing in storage arrays and modern datacenter technologies. Since joining in 2022, he has led Nutanix in its first integrations with external storage platforms, including Dell PowerFlex and Pure Storage FlashArray, helping expand the company’s ecosystem and customer reach.

With decades of experience building high-availability and mission-critical systems, Devendran focuses on enabling enterprises to navigate shifts in virtualization and the rising demands of AI workloads. His work centers on making it easier for customers to adopt Nutanix solutions as they modernize and scale their software-defined data centers.

Vimal Dharmavarapu

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Vimal has been in the Networking industry for over 15 years and loves to talk about all things connectivity. Outside of Networking, he loves to cook and is a huge fiction buff.

In his current role, he is helping build the Nutanix Flow Portfolio to simplify and address the Networking challenges for the hybrid multicloud deployments.

John Dodds

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

John Dodds is a Director of Product Management at Nutanix focusing on Data Lens and NCP platform security. John has over 20 years of product experience in the areas of data governance, CSPM, CNAPP, SASE, CASB, and DLP for companies such as Veritas Technologies, Symantec, McAfee, Cisco Meraki, and Palo Alto Networks.

John has launched several products bridging all these markets to help drive data aware security. His main area of research has been in insights that can be gained from understanding information content, usage patterns, and user behaviors; using these insights to help companies implement data privacy processes, security policy, compliance policy, and data lifecycle policy.

John has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s in Business Administration from the Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business in Winter Park, FL with a finance concentration.

Sean Donahue

Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Nutanix

Sean brings over three decades of experience evangelizing and driving innovation across networking, virtualization, and cloud technologies. Throughout his career, he has held key roles in Product and Alliance Marketing at industry leaders including Softricity, Microsoft, RES, Citrix, and Nutanix. In addition to his marketing expertise, Sean has taught certification programs at Boston University and even began his journey in IT with a Managed Service Provider—as a typewriter technician.

Doug Yeager

Lead System/Virtualization Administrator, Purdue University

Doug Yeager graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and is an accomplished IT professional with over 20 years of experience specializing in infrastructure. His background includes extensive work with hypervisors and backup platforms such as ESXi, AHV, Data Protector, and Veeam, supporting environments across manufacturing, healthcare, and education. Doug has served as Lead System and Virtualization Administrator at Purdue University for the past decade. Recent speaking engagements include an Internet2 webinar, where he presented a case study on Purdue.

Steve Eyler

Senior Solution Architect, Nutanix

Steve Eyler is a Senior Solutions Architect specializing in Networking and Security. For the past six years at Nutanix, he has helped enterprises modernize by building resilient, secure infrastructures for the future. His insights draw on decades of experience shaping advanced datacenter strategies for global organizations. When he’s not designing solutions, Steve enjoys boating and hiking near his home in North Bend, Washington.

Luke Foster

Global Director, Service Provider Solutions, Nutanix

Luke Foster is Global Director of Service Provider Solutions. Luke leads Nutanix service provider (SP) architecture and solutions strategy, working across product, engineering, sales, and partner teams to drive design wins and adoption with global SPs. He joins from NTT Data, where he built and launched cloud services at scale and led product strategy for one of the world’s largest managed service providers. With 15+ years in cloud and SP leadership, Luke sees a pivotal opportunity for Nutanix to help partners modernize and transition in the post-VMware/Broadcom era and is focused on enabling them to deliver repeatable, differentiated services on the Nutanix platform.

Felipe Franciosi

Senior Director, Engineering, Nutanix

Felipe is a Senior Director of Engineering based in Cambridge, UK, and is responsible for the technology of various parts of Nutanix products. Joining back in 2015, he founded the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) host team, having also architected and written various parts of the product. He also founded the Nutanix R&D centres in the UK and Poland. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London where he researched performance of virtualised storage. Outside of work, Felipe spends time with family, retro computers, and chess (on modern computers).

Grant Friend

Manager, Solution Specialists, Nutanix

Grant Friend is Manager of Portfolio Solutions at Nutanix, bringing over 20 years of rich experience across IT operations, directory administration, virtualisation consulting, cloud architecture and automation.
His career spans deep technical and customer-facing roles, giving him a uniquely balanced viewpoint on designing, delivering, and optimising enterprise-scale cloud and virtualisation environments. At Nutanix, Grant helps clients navigate hybrid cloud and multicloud landscapes, focusing on practical, business-aligned solutions for long-term transformation.
As a passionate advocate for modernising infrastructure, he often speaks on topics including hybrid multicloud, DevOps best practices, and how to leverage cloud native approaches to drive operational efficiency and innovation.

Hinal Gala

Staff Engineer, Nutanix

Hinal Gala is a Staff Engineer in the Nutanix core AOS organization, where she designs and evolves critical distributed system components that operate at massive scale. With over a decade of experience in systems engineering, she specializes in scalability, reliability, and space efficiency, tackling some of the most complex challenges in storage. Hinal brings a rigorous, detail-driven approach to building resilient platforms, while maintaining a strong focus on customer outcomes and operational excellence. In addition to her technical leadership, she is deeply invested in mentoring engineers and shaping high-performing teams capable of delivering durable, long-term innovation.

Kaushik Ghosh

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Kaushik Ghosh leads Product Management for Nutanix Unified Storage, where he drives the product strategy, vision, and execution across files, objects, and advanced data services. With a career spanning multiple leading storage vendors, Kaushik has launched and managed several multi-billion-dollar infrastructure product portfolios that power mission-critical workloads globally.

At Nutanix, Kaushik is at the forefront of shaping how modern enterprises manage data for AI, multicloud, and security-sensitive environments. He works closely with customers and partners to build data platforms that accelerate AI/ML pipelines, optimize GPU utilization, streamline data movement across clouds, and protect AI workloads from emerging threats.

Kaushik is passionate about the intersection of AI and data infrastructure, championing innovations that help organizations unlock the full value of their data—from edge to core to cloud. His work focuses on enabling customers to operationalize AI confidently and at scale, turning complex architectures into practical, high-impact outcomes.

Rajat Ghosh

Technical Director, AI, Nutanix

Rajat joined Nutanix in 2021 as a Staff Scientist to establish and lead advanced AI research, including Reinforcement Learning, across the product portfolio, bringing startup experience rooted in his PhD work. He played a foundational role in the early generative AI efforts at Nutanix, architecting SupportGPT and defining its core RAG design and evaluation framework at a time when open-source LLMs were still immature, ultimately driving the system to production-grade quality. Rajat has also provided deep technical leadership in AI safety, alignment, and reasoning-model fine-tuning, influencing the NAI roadmap and AI-efficiency initiatives. Beyond product innovation, he is a trusted technical leader across the company and with customers—leading the evaluation and adoption of Cursor as a Nutanix coding assistant, serving as the SME for legal reviews of AI tools and LLMs, supporting the conversion of a key healthcare customer to NAI 1.0, and partnering with Corporate Development on AI technical due diligence—while building a strong AI research team and contributing to industry thought leadership through peer-reviewed publications, invited conference panels, internal talks, and Nutanix AI/ML blogs.

Jarian Gibson

Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Jarian Gibson is a senior staff solutions architect on the End-User Computing (EUC) Engineering team at Nutanix. In this role, Jarian researches best practices for running VDI and RDSH-based workloads along with related technology components, writes reference architecture and validated designs, and helps design, test, and build EUC solutions on top of Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Platform. Jarian has a strong background in end-user computing. Jarian has presented EUC-related content at various events and conferences along with being a co-leader of the Kansas City World of EUC Users Group, Board Chair for the World of EUC, and co-host of the Frontline Chatter podcast.

Deepak Goel

CTO, Cloud Native, Nutanix

Deepak Goel is the CTO for Cloud Native at Nutanix, where he leads the vision, strategy, and execution for cloud native platforms and technologies. He focuses on helping enterprises modernize applications using Kubernetes, containers, and cloud native architectures while maintaining operational simplicity and scalability.

With deep expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, and cloud native ecosystems, Deepak plays a key role in shaping the Nutanix cloud native roadmap and driving innovation across hybrid cloud and multicloud environments. He is passionate about open source, platform engineering, and building technologies that enable developers to move faster while operating reliably at scale.

Deepak frequently engages with customers, partners, and the broader cloud native community to share insights on modern application platforms, Kubernetes adoption, and the future of enterprise cloud computing.

Tuhina Goel

Director, Product Marketing, Nutanix

Tuhina Goel is a product marketing leader with over 18 years of experience taking enterprise products to market and driving growth. A former software engineer, she blends technical depth with customer focus to turn complex technologies into simple, compelling messages that move products from early ideas to broad adoption. She leads global product marketing for AI at Nutanix, covering AI-ready storage, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), and Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) for large-scale inference platform. She’s passionate about making AI more accessible to customers and showing how the right data foundation and infrastructure unlock real results. She’s driven by the fast pace of AI innovation and the chance to bring practical, real-world AI to every organization while helping customers avoid the hype traps.

Jose Gomez

Director, Technical Marketing Engineering, NKP and Cloud Native, Nutanix

Jose Gomez, Director of Technical Marketing for Cloud Native at Nutanix, is a recognized expert in automation and cloud native technologies with over 25 years of experience. He drives the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) and cloud native solutions, helping organizations worldwide adopt modern architectures and platform engineering practices. With over seven years at Nutanix, Jose leads a global team to create impactful technical content, deliver engaging presentations, and empower the community with practical enablement resources. Known for demystifying complex concepts, he is a trusted voice and frequent speaker at global conferences.

Jesse Gonzalez

Staff Solution Architect - Cloud Native, Nutanix

Jesse Gonzalez is a Cloud Native Solutions Architect on the Solutions and Performance Engineering team at Nutanix. With over 20+ years of experience in IT, he has had the privilege of working closely with many organizations of all sizes to overcome their challenges in enabling cloud native (and more recently Generative AI) solutions on Nutanix

Mayank Gupta

Director Product Marketing Management - NCM, Nutanix

Mayank Gupta is the Director of Product Marketing at Nutanix and leads the GTM for its hybrid cloud solutions. In his role, he speaks to CXO and infrastructure leaders on their digital modernization, hybrid cloud, journeys, IT automation, cost, and security governance. Before joining Nutanix, he worked for the data center group at Intel. He has over 18 years of experience in the Compute and Storage space. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, a master’s from UCLA, and a bachelor’s from IIT Bombay.

Niels Hagoort

Advisory Solution Architect, Nutanix

As a trusted advisor and specialist, Niels drives the adoption of hybrid multicloud solutions with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) using public cloud infrastructures. He evangelizes Nutanix technologies, empowering customers to achieve their cloud goals.

Paul Harb

Vice President, Solutions and Performance Engineering, Nutanix

Paul Harb leads Solutions & Performance Engineering at Nutanix, a global R&D organization responsible for developing best practices, reference architectures, and validated solutions. He and his team drive foundational changes in how Nutanix engages on complex opportunities, helping customers realize tangible business outcomes from their cloud and infrastructure investments. Paul reports to the EVP of Product Management, partnering closely to improve Nutanix products and deepen multicloud integrations with leading third-party solutions.

Paul previously led Nutanix Professional Services in the Americas and APAC, worked for VCE and ANZ Bank, and holds a degree in Mathematics and Quantitative Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sampanna Hegde

Group Product Manager, Nutanix

Sampanna Hegde is a Group Product Manager at Nutanix, where he leads the strategic vision and execution for Automation and Orchestration within Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). With over 14 years of experience in enterprise software, his expertise spans billing, telecommunications, and private cloud solutions. Sampanna has been with Nutanix for over seven years, playing a key role in driving innovation and product development. Prior to Nutanix, he held impactful roles at Oracle and Intuit, contributing to enterprise-grade product advancements. He holds an MBA from the University of Georgia and brings a deep understanding of cloud automation, orchestration, and business strategy to his work.

Marc Heynderickx

Principal Engineer, Legacy Health System

Marc Heynderickx is a Principal Engineer at Legacy Health with over 20 years of experience guiding infrastructure strategy and enterprise systems in healthcare. He leads data center transformation initiatives focused on simplifying complex environments to improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. Known for his collaborative, outcome‑driven leadership style, Marc brings deep expertise in modern infrastructure platforms and resilient systems design. He holds certifications from Nutanix, Pure Storage, and SNIA and champions pragmatic, team‑driven approaches to healthcare technology transformation.

Tony Holland

Senior Manager, Systems Engineering, Nutanix

Tony Holland has been an IT professional for over 25 years. He started in IT as a consultant fixing printers and eventually moved to IT Director for a large marketing firm in Minneapolis. He then moved to the vendor side of IT working as a VMware Storage Specialist for a storage startup named Compellent before they were acquired by DELL. Tony joined Nutanix as employee number 90 as a Systems Engineer for the entire Midwest in 2012 and has progressed to a field CTO for the Americas for Nutanix.

Sven Huisman

Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Sven Huisman is a Senior Staff Solutions Architect in the Solutions and Performance Engineering – End-User Computing (EUC) team at Nutanix.

In his role, Sven performs best practices research for running end-user computing workloads along with related technology components, writes reference architecture and validated designs, and helps design, test, and build EUC solutions on top of the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Platform.

Jeff Hummel

Sr. Solution Architect, Entergy Corporation

Bruno Hildenbrand

Alliances Field Engineer, Canonical

Bruno is an IT expert with 20+ years of experience in technology, having led global projects across industries such as Technology, E-commerce, Finance, Retail, Tourism, Public Sector, and more. Throughout his career, Bruno held various senior roles in IT, including IT/Cloud/Software/Solutions Architect and previously Principal Software Engineer. Today Bruno is a proud member of Canonical's Field Engineering Team where he works to bring Ubuntu, Linux and open source technologies to enterprises at a global scale.

Stasia Hurley

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Nutanix

Stasia Hurley is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Nutanix, focusing on Unified Storage and Data Lens. She has a long history in cybersecurity, specializing in ransomware protection and other solutions to help organizations defend against evolving threats.

Isaac Slade

American musician and songwriter

Isaac Slade is a nationally acclaimed American musician and songwriter, best known as the former frontman of the Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum band The Fray. Slade is recognized for his emotionally resonant voice and introspective songwriting that helped define the sound of a generation, with chart-topping hits that continue to resonate globally. Now stepping boldly into a new chapter as a solo artist, his latest work returns us to his intimate, cinematic, and expansive vocal tones through his evocative lyrics. With new music on the horizon, Slade’s work reflects his past and future into a powerful evolution, inviting listeners into something honest, timeless, and alive with possibility. Beyond performance, Slade is a trusted voice in the national conversation, reflecting a lifelong commitment to using his platform for meaningful connection and change, spanning socially responsive initiatives, artistic mentorship, and coalition-building. Slade’s work reflects a powerful intersection of artistry, leadership, and a lifelong belief in the unifying force of music and the transformative power of the arts.

Bruce Jacobs

Global Director, Practice Lead, Nutanix

Bruce has been working with cloud native technology since 2015 where he served as Vice President of IT and DevOps for a Fintech startup. At D2iQ, he was the global director of sales engineering and came to Nutanix through the acquisition of D2iQ. He currently works as the Global Director, Practice Lead Cloud Native for Nutanix. Bruce is a former Marine and lives in Southern California with his five children and Goose the cat.

Christophe Jauffret

Principal Solutions Architect - Cloud Native, Nutanix

Christophe Jauffret is a Principal Solutions Architect for Cloud Native Technology at Nutanix, where he spends his days transforming complex technology into something that humans can actually use. With nearly 25 years in the industry, he’s made a career out of chasing innovative ideas and taming them for the real world.

Back in the early 2000s, Christophe helped bring virtualization into the mainstream, long before it became widely popular. Later, at VMware and Quest Software, he delved deeply into networking, automation, and container technologies.

He launched his career in 2000 with open-source startups, where he fell in love with the openness, collaboration, and creative energy that define the community.

Today, he continues to blend curiosity, pragmatism, and a bit of geeky joy to help shape the next generation of cloud native solutions.

Jay McBain

Chief Analyst - Channels, Partnerships & Ecosystems, Omdia

Jay McBain is one of the most visible and respected thought leaders in the global channel ecosystem. Named Global Channel Influencer of the Year by Channel Futures Magazine, Top 40 Under Forty by the Business Review, as well as numerous channel magazines top thought leadership lists, he is often sought out for industry guidance and future trends. He has spent his 30-year career in various executive channel sales, marketing, and strategy roles within IBM, Lenovo, Autotask, ChannelEyes, and Forrester. Jay is chief analyst at Canalys (now part of Omdia) - the world's leading research firm with a distinct focus on channels, partnerships, alliances, and ecosystems.

Sujaikumar Jayarao

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Sujaikumar Jayarao is a seasoned Product Manager with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, helping customers achieve peace of mind through innovative application and data protection solutions. Currently serving as Director of Product Management for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery and MST at Nutanix, he combines deep technical expertise with a customer-first approach to deliver reliable, secure outcomes.

Raghu Jha

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Raghu is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix with over 16+ years of experience driving technology innovation. He is part of the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) product team, specializing in Backup and Recovery, Copy Data Management, and the SQL Server database engine. Before joining Nutanix, he worked with several leading financial services organizations, where he led major initiatives to modernize and scale database and data management platforms. He has also been a featured speaker at multiple industry webinars and conferences, including the PASS Data Community Summit, SQLBits, and Nutanix .NEXT in Washington, DC.

Jon Dustin

Senior Manager of Infrastructure Engineering, Bottomline

Jon Dustin is the Senior Manager of Infrastructure Engineering at Bottomline. He spent 20 years managing systems in Higher Education, and is responsible for nine datacenters around the world that host 660+ Nutanix nodes. Bottomline was an early adopter of Nutanix, and Jon enjoys the challenge of helping Bottomline solve their infrastructure needs. Jon enjoys cycling and hiking on beautiful Maine trails, singing in community choirs, and traveling to new places with his wife.

John Hein

Cloud Specialist, US Signal

John Hein is a Senior Cloud Sales Specialist at US Signal and a recognized leader within the Nutanix ecosystem. With more than 20 years in the Managed Service Provider industry, he specializes in hybrid cloud transformation and guiding organizations through VMware-to-Nutanix transitions. Previously serving as Product Director for ReliaCloud at OneNeck IT Solutions, John led the company’s pivot from a traditional 3-tier architecture to a Nutanix-powered hyperconverged private cloud platform—helping drive recognition as Nutanix Global Service Provider of the Year. A three-time Nutanix Technology Champion (2024–2026) and returning .NEXT presenter, John is passionate about helping customers modernize infrastructure and operationalize Nutanix technologies at scale.

Laura Jordana

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, NAI and Artificial Intelligence, Nutanix

Laura Jordana is a Director of Technical Marketing at Nutanix based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. In this role, she and her team are primarily focused on creating technical content, enablement, demos and videos for Nutanix Enterprise AI and the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Prior to this role, she worked in customer support and inside sales engineering roles at Nutanix.

Justin Mason

Associate Director, Technology Services, University of Canberra

Justin Mason is the Associate Director, Technology Services at the University of Canberra. With 25 years’ experience transforming enterprise infrastructure in higher education, he leads large-scale platform and cloud initiatives focused on cost predictability, AI/ML enablement, and research agility. He is passionate about empowering researchers and students through secure, automated self-service platforms that reduce provisioning times from weeks to hours. Justin has led major infrastructure transitions - including moving away from VMware to a more sustainable Nutanix architecture - delivering significant cost savings while expanding institutional capability.

Arun Kandambakkam

Technical Director, Nutanix

Arun Kandambakkam leads the Infrastructure and Life Cycle Management teams at Nutanix, focused on making infrastructure upgrades seamless and stress-free. He's passionate about building tools that help customers focus on their business—not maintenance windows. Outside of upgrade pipelines, you'll find him exploring Kubernetes internals or mentoring engineers.

Krishna Kapa

Senior Manager Database Solutions Engineering, Nutanix

Krishna Kapa is a Senior Manager Database Solutions Engineering at Nutanix. With over 18 years of experience as a Pre-Sales & Database Solutions Architect, he has driven the implementation of Database Solutions in Data Virtualization, Security and Cloud.
In his current leadership role, Krishna architects Nutanix Database solutions and DBaaS offerings, while spearheading the development of NVDs and RAs for enterprise customers. He champions the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) platform, guiding its integration into modern DevOps workflows and enabling organizations to accelerate innovation.
Krishna has been at Nutanix for over 6 years and lives in Atlanta, GA with his family. Prior to Nutanix, he worked with Oracle, Dell, and Delphix.

Mohammed Karam

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Mohammed Karam is a Product Manager at Nutanix specializing in high availability and disaster recovery for on-premises and hybrid environments. He plays a key role in shaping the Business Continuity Strategy for Databases running on Nutanix Database Service (NDB), ensuring that evolving needs in data protection and resilience are addressed through the product.

Parag Karnik

CTO, Enterprise Platforms, Nutanix

Parag Karnik is CTO of Enterprise Platforms at Nutanix. He has led engineering and operations across regulated industries with executive roles at Credit Suisse, Johnson & Johnson, and Express Scripts. In these positions, he led major digital transformations, implemented at-scale multicloud solutions, and championed AI platforms focused on business value. Parag is known for transforming organizations into agile, high-performing entities with a growth mindset. He serves as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, helping align technology initiatives delivering strategic business outcomes.

Aditya Kaul

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Aditya Kaul is a Principal Product Manager with deep experience in enterprise infrastructure platforms, OEM partnerships, and go-to-market execution. At Nutanix, he leads the Cisco relationship focussed on joint product roadmap.

Sachin Keswani

Senior Product Manager, Nutanix

Sachin Keswani is a Senior Product Manager at Nutanix with two decades of global experience leading product, engineering, and go-to-market initiatives at companies like AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and Samsung. He brings a strong background in software, semiconductors, AI, and cloud infrastructure. Sachin has played a pivotal role in major industry projects, including the launch of Google's first GoogleTV and the enablement of Apple's integrated graphics across the MacOS product line. At Nutanix, he is focused on enhancing the Life Cycle Manager (LCM) to unify software and OEM firmware upgrades and maintain a simple, seamless experience for all customers.

James Kindon

Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

James Kindon is a Staff Solutions Architect at Nutanix in the Nutanix Solutions Engineering Team focused on end-user computing (EUC), automation, and hybrid cloud solutions. He combines deep technical expertise with a passion for simplifying complex EUC environments.

Jon Kohler

Principal Engineer, Nutanix

Jon Kohler is a Principal Engineer on the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) Host R&D team at Nutanix. He's been with Nutanix since 2014, focusing on core platform performance and scalability in both the AOS Core Data Path and AHV Linux Kernel. His performance work includes profiling, visualization, and developing code from concept to production.

Prema Kolli

Director, Engineering, Nutanix

Prema Kolli is a Director of Engineering at Nutanix with over 9 years in the AHV organization. She leads engineering for the Nutanix high-performance compute initiative. Prema has delivered numerous high-impact initiatives across AHV core areas—bringing breakthrough capabilities in scheduling, mobility, lifecycle management, high availability, GPU/SmartNIC enablement, and more.

Hemanth Kommuru

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Hemanth Kommuru is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, focused on core infrastructure and storage platforms. He leads product strategy and execution for AOS and Cloud Native AOS, including NVMe/TCP, disaggregated HCI, and cloud native. Having led products at both startups and large enterprise vendors, Hemanth focuses on building 0-to-1 infrastructure products and making them simple to deploy and operate.

Artur Krzywdzinski

Director, Solutions Engineering, Nutanix

Artur started at Nutanix in 2014 and currently holds a position of Director at Solution and Performance Engineering. He has many years of experience on migrating customers to Nutanix solutions. He holds NPX#22 and VCDX#77 certifications.

Gautam Kulkarni

Group Product Manager, Nutanix

Gautam Kulkarni serves as a Group Product Manager at Nutanix. His primary areas of focus are cloud management and intelligent IT operations (AIOps). With nearly 15 years of experience in the technology industry, Gautam has held engineering and product management positions in companies such as Brocade, Cisco, and most recently Google Cloud, concentrating on bringing new value to the market through variety of cloud infrastructure management products.

Kurt Richards

Database Administrator, Penn National Insurance

Kurt Richards is a Database Administrator for Penn National Insurance. He has been in the database and IT space for 35+ years with the last 29 years at Penn National Insurance. SQL Server is their database platform. Kurt and the team at Penn National Insurance have been using Nutanix and the NDB software to host and manage their database environment for the last 5 years.

Jeremy Launier

Senior Principal Product Manager II, Nutanix

Jeremy is Senior Principal Product Manager for Nutanix Database Service. Jeremy has been in the database and IT space for the last 25 years with the last 11 years at Nutanix. Jeremy is a Silicon Valley local, and worked at multiple startups over his career.

Dwayne Lessner

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Dwayne Lessner is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer on the Technical Marketing team at Nutanix, Inc. In this role, Dwayne helps design, test, and build solutions on top of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, on-premises and in the Cloud.

Dwayne is always willing to assist customers and partners build the right solution to fit the project. Dwayne covers Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and likes to moonlight as a bad comedian.

Dwayne has worked in healthcare, oil, and gas in various roles. A strong background in server and desktop virtualization has given Dwayne the opportunity to work with many different application frameworks and architectures.

Gary Little

Principal Performance Engineer, Nutanix

Gary has worked on systems performance for most of his career and founded the Performance Engineering team at Nutanix in 2013. Previously, he was doing performance stuff at NetApp and Sun Microsystems. Outside of work he is mostly waiting for his next track day.

Angelo Luciani

Senior Manager, Community Marketing, Nutanix

Angelo Luciani is a senior community leader at Nutanix, where he builds and scales global community programs that drive advocacy, engagement, and real-world impact. He leads several of the Nutanix flagship initiatives, including the Nutanix Community, Nutanix Technology Champions, and co-leads Nutanix User Groups.

With a practitioner’s mindset, Angelo focuses on turning participation into meaningful contribution and long-term value for both customers and the broader ecosystem. He brings a practical perspective on how strong, well-designed communities accelerate learning, innovation, and influence.

Aarthi Mahesh

Product and Solutions Marketing Specialist, Nutanix

Aarthi drives product and solutions marketing at Nutanix, specializing in the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) and its full-stack cloud native solution. With a background in computer science and customer success engineering, she brings deep expertise in enterprise technology and Kubernetes adoption across hybrid environments. She is passionate about helping organizations accelerate their cloud native journey and is based in San Francisco.

Marleen Hendrikx

Chief of Staff WW Channel Sales, Nutanix

Marleen Hendrikx is the Chief of Staff and Head of Channel Strategy & Programs, Worldwide Channel Sales at Nutanix, where she leads the company’s global routes-to-market strategy, tools, and partner programs. Nutanix relies on its Channel Sales organization to drive sales, services, and customer adoption throughout the subscription lifecycle. Prior to joining Nutanix in 2017, Marleen held leadership roles in Distribution, OEM, and Alliances strategy and execution at Simplivity, Hitachi Data Systems, and BenQ. She holds a degree in International Business Management and discovered her passion for partnerships early in her career while working at a local reseller, where she saw firsthand how vendor and partner collaboration leads to stronger customer outcomes. Recognized by CRN’s Women of the Channel and most recently named one of the “100 People You Don’t Know But Should” in 2025, Marleen brings deep experience and insight to her global role. She is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Chris McCann

Director, Strategic Marketing, Nutanix

Chris has more than 20 years of experience in the technology infrastructure sector as a writer and strategist. As Director of Solutions Marketing at Nutanix, he focuses on helping customers better understand how to get the most value out of the Nutanix platform.

Steve McElfatrick

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Steve has been in the industry for well over 20 years, the past 10 (almost) of which have been at Nutanix. He has worked as a Systems Engineer, EMEA Storage Solution Architect and most recently as Technical Marketing Engineer for Nutanix Unified Storage, working mostly on Objects. He also maintains an interest in Big Data. Prior to his time at Nutanix, Steve did stints at a number of IT vendors and services organisations, including a lengthy tenure at NetApp

Mike McGhee

Director Technical Marketing Management - NC2, NUS, NDB, Nutanix

Mike has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry and is currently focused on assisting customers and partners better understand the core functionality of the Nutanix platform. Mike has responsibilities around Nutanix Files, and the Nutanix Unified Storage portfolio. Prior to Nutanix, Mike worked for EMC as a Systems Engineer with a focus on storage technologies, virtualization and their intersection with hybrid clouds. Mike has carried several certifications over the years including MCP, MCSE, MCDBA and NPP.

Michael Prewitt

Manager, Platform Engineering, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Michael Prewitt is the Director of X86 Infrastructure Engineering, bringing over 35 years of experience, including 25 years at BCBST. He leads his organization’s shift from traditional three‑tier architectures to hyperconverged infrastructure, migrating large, data‑intensive workloads into a robust, highly available HCI environment. This transformation has reduced cost and simplified operations. Michael is passionate about coaching and elevating his team, shifting left the skills needed to support modern infrastructure at scale.

Kanchan Mirani

Senior Director Strategic Marketing, Nutanix

Kanchan Mirani is a product marketing leader with over two decades of experience across cloud, AI, and enterprise infrastructure. At Nutanix, she leads global product marketing strategy, messaging, and analyst engagement for key products including Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Manager, Unified Storage, Cloud Clusters, Database Services, and AI.

Before joining Nutanix, Kanchan drove pricing, packaging, and subscription transformation initiatives at Cisco and has held diverse marketing roles across startups and large enterprises alike. She’s passionate about how technology - and increasingly, AI - is reshaping not only the way businesses work, but also human creativity.

Sonali Mishra

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Sonali Mishra is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, focusing on the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). She focuses on simplifying Kubernetes adoption for enterprises and enabling modern application and AI workloads at scale. Before joining Nutanix, Sonali spent four years at D2iQ, where she worked extensively on the company’s Kubernetes platform, DKP. She collaborates closely with customers, serving as a strong voice of the customer within R&D, and brings deep experience in cloud native technologies.

Ron Mitra

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Ron Mitra is a Principal Product Manager with Nutanix and works on GenAI capabilities in Nutanix Management applications that drive admin productivity and efficiency leading to better user experience and customer outcomes. Ron has been a Product leader for the last 20 years in Silicon Valley across networking, storage, compute and datacenter management solutions with stints at Cisco, NetApp and Sun. He has a background in Computer Science and Engineering with a Bachelor of Science from IIT Kharagpur and a Master of Science from University of California, Irvine.

Mukesh Mulchandani

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Mukesh Mulchandani is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, leading strategy for Nutanix Cloud Clusters across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With deep experience in cloud infrastructure, data protection, and enterprise storage, he focuses on helping customers accelerate hybrid cloud adoption and modernize mission-critical workloads.

Musab Umair Malik

Senior Database Consultant, Alinma Bank

Technical Author, Speaker and Seasoned SQL Server Consultant specializing in performance tuning, high availability, Always On, disaster recovery, and enterprise-scale database architecture. I help organizations stabilize, optimize, and modernize SQL Server environments across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid platforms. With deep experience in troubleshooting, health checks, monitoring, scalability planning, and best-practice implementation, I enable teams to achieve maximum uptime, faster workloads, and secure, future-ready data platforms. Passionate about delivering clear solutions, educating teams, and driving continuous improvement.

Manoj Naik

Distinguished Engineer, Nutanix

Manoj Naik is a Distinguished Engineer at Nutanix, where he drives the technical vision, strategy, and execution of Nutanix Unified Storage. He is a founding member of Nutanix Files, a scale-out software-defined file server designed for the hybrid cloud. He brings over 25 years of industry experience in file, storage and distributed systems to making large-scale complex designs simple to consume.

Niranjan Nandrekar

Senior Product Manager, Nutanix

Niranjan Nandrekar is a Senior Product Manager at Nutanix, leading Prism strategy for large-scale, multi-site edge deployments. He works with some of the world’s largest enterprises to simplify and standardize operations across datacenter, edge and hybrid cloud environments. With a deep background in networking and cloud infrastructure, Niranjan brings hands-on technical expertise and customer-centric design to modern infrastructure at scale.

Chris Nelson

Principal Solution Architect, Nutanix

Chris Nelson has worked in the technology industry for over 25 years beginning with training administrators and engineers, to IT consulting services, and ultimately to a focus upon platform and application automation and business process improvement for much of his career. He is always working to help customers and partners create and/or realize their strategic vision for platform engineering and management from the datacenter to the edge, and to public cloud.

Bill O'Donnell

Senior Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Bill O’Donnell is a Senior Principal Security Product Manager at Nutanix. With over 25 years’ experience in information technology, Bill has been involved in security design, architecture, and product management of a wide range of challenging security solutions in software and hardware products. He formally worked as a senior security leader in IBM where he spearheaded secure, flexible, and cutting-edge solutions and was also the Chief Security Architect for IBM WebSphere Brand. During his time there, he authored several security papers and blogs including the company’s Security Intelligence blog.

William Parks

Senior Product Marketing Manager - NCI, Nutanix

William Parks is a seasoned Senior Product Marketing Manager at Nutanix, boasting over 19 years of field sales experience with renowned tech companies like NetApp, Microsoft, and EMC. As the Product Marketing Manager for AHV and AOS, he crafts the core messaging, drives asset development, and orchestrates NCI's integration into strategic campaigns. William's unique blend of sales and marketing expertise positions him to empathetically meet customer needs and align product solutions with precision, shaping his role's invaluable impact.

Justin Pedersen

Manager, Solutions Specialist - NKP, Nutanix

Justin Pedersen is a technology leader with almost three decades of experience in the industry, and nearly ten years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes. At Nutanix, he leads a team of highly skilled solution architects focused on simplifying cloud native platform operations for our customers using the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. Prior to Nutanix, Justin spent time at VMware in the Tanzu division, and held various architecture and engineering roles in industries spanning health care, biotechnology and software.

Joao Pereira Teixeira

Director Customer Experience & Enterprise Architecture, Nutanix

Joao is a seasoned technology leader and long-time Nutanix expert, Nutanix NPX certified. With deep experience across multiple roles, he now drives innovation as Director of Customer Experience and Enterprise Architecture. Joao is passionate about helping organizations succeed by ensuring they use scalable, best-in-class solutions that deliver real business outcomes. His insights bridge cutting-edge technology and practical enterprise strategies.

Philip Sellers

Chief Technology Officer, XenTegra

Philip Sellers is the Chief Technology Officer at XenTegra, where he guides technology strategy and helps clients design modern, cloud-ready infrastructure solutions. With deep expertise in Nutanix and multiple certifications across the platform, Philip has been recognized as a trusted leader in the ecosystem, including being named the 2023 Nutanix Partner Sales Engineer of the Year.

Marsha Pierce

Global Director, Practice Lead, Nutanix

Marsha is the Global Category Leader at Nutanix. She heads up the field engineering team for the Nutanix Database Service Product. Her team ensures that products are successfully positioned in customer environments. Additionally, her team helps drive the direction of the product by working with engineering to prioritize enhancements and new features.

She is a database expert across multiple database platforms specializing in Dev-Ops, on-premises automation, and virtualization as well as high performant databases. Prior to joining Nutanix she led the specialist org at Pure Storage.

Chris Porter

Principal Solutions Architect - Cloud Native, Nutanix

Chris Porter (he/him) is a Brit masquerading as an Australian, who specialises in cloud native technologies as a Principal Solutions Architect at Nutanix. Despite his British roots, he can correctly pronounces "data" and "router", but struggles with the use of Z instead of S in words such as "specialises". Chris' career in IT spans many decades, working in both end-user and vendor roles, including a 4 year stint at AWS prior to joining Nutanix. He has spoken at many events across the globe, and delights in communicating technical concepts to audiences. Outside of work, you might find him singing karaoke, cycling his road bike, following F1 and Coventry City FC, driving his kids to various sports activities, or tinkering with his homelab.

Ramya Prabhakar

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Ramya Prabhakar is a Product Management Leader at Nutanix, leading the team on building core data and storage services to AI and cloud native applications. She focuses on providing modern infrastructure and services to data-centric applications on Kubernetes with all the enterprise-grade requirements around data protection. She has more than a decade of experience in building and launching B2B enterprise storage products, in companies like NetApp, EMC and Box. She has a doctorate in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University. She is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bas Raayman

Principal Solutions Architect - Engineering, Nutanix

Bas is a Principal Solutions Architect and leads a team of engineers that work with enterprise IT customers to ensure critical workloads run optimally on their Nutanix infrastructure. In his role, Bas helps with the architecture and validation of current and future Nutanix products targeted towards business-critical applications such as SAP. Bas worked for SAP as specialist, and at EMC as part of the vSpecialist team before starting at Nutanix over 12 years ago. In his time with Nutanix he has been a key contributor in building the central European region, and one of the engineers responsible for the Nutanix SAP HANA certification.

Rajesh Bikky

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Rajesh Bikky is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, where he leads the strategy and product direction for Partner Central and Test Drive. His work is focused on two key areas: empowering Nutanix channel partners with the tools and insights they need to build and grow a successful Nutanix business, and delivering a seamless, zero‑friction way for customers, prospects, and partners to experience Nutanix solutions firsthand. At Nutanix, Rajesh has also managed several SaaS products across the portfolio, driving improvements in usability, adoption, and business impact at scale. Prior to joining Nutanix, he was a Product Manager at Lenovo, where he owned enterprise storage products, and earlier in his career held multiple engineering roles, bringing a strong technical foundation to his product leadership. Rajesh holds an MBA from Duke University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston. He lives in the Raleigh‑Durham area with his wife and two children.

Lalitha Ramesh

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Lalitha leads product vision, roadmap, and execution, for Nutanix Cyber Resiliency, Disaster Recovery, and Multicloud Snapshot Technology, helping shape the Nutanix hybrid cloud data protection strategy. With deep expertise in scaling global hybrid infrastructure platforms, building strong customer and partner relationships, Lalitha brings a unique perspective at the intersection of cloud, edge, and AI innovation. Lalitha is passionate about customer impact, building next-gen, robust, and resilient platforms at enterprise scale.

Anand Ranganathan

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Anand is an accomplished leader with over 25 years of experience in Product Management, Technical Marketing, Engineering, and Support for enterprise software and datacenter technologies. Anand is currently the Director of Product Management of a talented team focused on Adoption, Professional Services, and Customer Success. Anand is based out of the Nutanix Headquarters in San Jose, USA.

Cesar Rojas

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Nutanix

Cesar brings over 20 years of product-marketing leadership spanning databases, analytics, and AI — working with industry-leading companies such as AWS, MongoDB, Pivotal, Teradata, and a number of ambitious startups. Today, at Nutanix, he spearheads go-to-market strategy for the Nutanix Database Service, crafting messaging frameworks, competitive tools, and community engagement strategies that drive growth and customer adoption. Armed with a BS in Computer Engineering, an MBA, and an AI certificate from MIT Sloan, Cesar combines deep technical fluency with business acumen to help teams bridge the gap between complex technology and tangible business value.

Kostadis Roussos

Distinguished Engineer, Nutanix

Kostadis Roussos is a renowned Software Architect and Principal Engineer with three decades of experience leading large-scale, transformative initiatives in the technology sector, most recently at Nutanix where he is the control plane architect for NCI. Before that he was the architect of vCenter and VCF for 9 and four years: A technical visionary with a background from Stanford University (M.S., Computer Science) and Brown University, his expertise is rooted in building and securing robust, multicloud distributed systems.

Mr. Roussos’s leadership is defined by his commitment to institutional integrity and structural reform, both in code and culture.

Jennifer Rowland

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Jennifer has worked in product management and broader R&D roles in Silicon Valley for the past 25 years. In that time, Jennifer has experienced a wide range of technologies, ranging from semiconductors, servers, storage, and datacenter management solutions to virtualization technologies. Jennifer has worked at Nutanix for the past 8 years. In her current role, she leads the Compute Product Management function, including AHV, EUC partners and all things GPUs.

Ellie Ruano

Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Nutanix

Ellie Ruano leads global product marketing for hybrid multicloud with the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) solution, where she partners closely with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to help customers navigate their cloud strategies with clarity and confidence. With a career in helping organizations select the right technologies to achieve their business goals, Ellie has a broad background across cloud, SaaS, mobile security, UC and conferencing. Prior to Nutanix, she shaped product marketing strategy at Pure Storage, VMware, MobileIron, Cisco, and Nokia.

Sarabjit S. Saini

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Mr. Sarabjit Singh Saini is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, where he leads product strategy and execution for Foundation and Foundation Central, the Nutanix flagship platforms for full-stack infrastructure deployment.
With over 20 years of experience in building cutting-edge IT software products and solutions across storage, compute, and networking domains, Sarabjit brings deep technical expertise combined with a strong product mindset. He has a proven track record of identifying complex market challenges and translating them into scalable, enterprise-grade products that deliver real customer value.
As a speaker, Sarabjit shares practical insights drawn from hands-on experience in product leadership, infrastructure automation, and building platforms at scale.

Samuel R. Neff

Senior Director of IT Operations , Kenco Management Services, LLC

Samuel Neff is Senior Director of IT Operations at Kenco Management Services, where he leads teams responsible for enterprise server, network, and infrastructure project management capabilities supporting large-scale logistics and supply chain operations. His organization delivers and operates critical infrastructure services that enable stability, scalability, and operational continuity across complex, distributed environments. Samuel focuses on disciplined execution, platform reliability, and aligning infrastructure strategy with business and operational priorities.

Ranjit Sawant

Senior Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Ranjit Sawant is the Senior Director of Product Management at Nutanix, responsible for the Prism Central and Nutanix Central products. He has more than 20 years of successful product launches in a variety of domains: cloud services, small business, social, developer services, education, etc. Before joining Nutanix, Ranjit was a Group Product Manager at VMware (acquired by Broadcom) where he was responsible for VCF ™. Prior to VMware, he was Product lead at CA Technologies (acquired by Broadcom). Before that, Ranjit has been a founder at a mobile social networking startup and has held Senior Product and Engineering roles at Intuit, Microsoft, and Siemens Communications. Ranjit received his MBA from UNC Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler Business School), and holds a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Karnataka University in India.

Ruhi Sehgal

Senior Product Marketing Specialist, Nutanix

Ruhi Sehgal is a Senior Product Marketing Specialist at Nutanix, where she drives the Hybrid Cloud Management portfolio forward. She is passionate about the intersection of cloud, AI, and cybersecurity. Beyond her role at Nutanix, she serves on the leadership board for Women in Cybersecurity Silicon Valley, championing women in the cybersecurity space.

Bibhash Seth

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Bibhash Seth is a Director of Product Management at Nutanix. Bibhash is the dedicated Product Lead for the Nutanix AOS/HCI product line, a role in which he drives strategy and innovation for one of the industry's leading hyperconverged infrastructure platforms. He is instrumental in shaping the future roadmap for AOS, ensuring it delivers the performance, resilience, and simplicity that enterprise customers demand. With a deep technical background and a focus on translating complex customer challenges into market-leading solutions, Bibhash is a key voice in the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure landscape.

Frank Shen

Senior Product Manager, Nutanix

Frank Shen is a seasoned cybersecurity product leader with extensive experience across SASE, Zero Trust, enterprise networking, and cloud platform security. His work spans the evolution of AI-enabled security platforms, shaping capabilities in risk intelligence, analytics, and enterprise-grade cloud and edge solutions.

Rob Simpson

Senior Director, Strategic Marketing, Nutanix

Rob leads the technical strategic marketing team, driving initiatives that navigate the rapidly evolving competitive IT landscape. With over 11 years at Nutanix, he has been a key part of the company’s journey—from disrupting the market with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to shaping their transformation into a leading hybrid cloud platform.

Yannick Struyf

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Yannick Struyf is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, where he focuses on the cloud native ecosystem. Drawing on his extensive background in infrastructure automation and open-source technologies, he is dedicated to translating complex, real-world customer challenges into elegant and effective product solutions. His passion lies in building great products that not only innovate but also deliver tangible value and a seamless user experience.

Brian Suhr

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, AHV, NCP, and EUC, Nutanix

Brian Suhr is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer and author of Architecting EUC Solutions, a definitive design guide for end-user computing (EUC). He regularly provides architectural and engineering expertise in a variety of end-user computing, virtualization, datacenter, and cloud-based engagements. Brian is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX #118) and has written extensively on personal and industry blog sites.

Aman Taneja

Senior Director Data Analytics, Nutanix

Aman Taneja leads Enterprise Data Platform and Analytics at Nutanix, delivering the data and AI foundations that turn strategy into measurable outcomes. He modernizes enterprise data platforms, builds domain-specific sources of truth, and operationalizes governance and secure access—so business leaders can move faster with decision-grade insight and reduced risk.
He drives scalable self-serve analytics and LLM-enabled capabilities anchored in trusted datasets, investing in semantic layers, reusable data products, and end-to-end observability. Operating at the intersection of data engineering and applied AI, Aman implements the controls that make AI production-ready—catalog and lineage, quality signals, and policy-based access—while standardizing data contracts and SLAs to accelerate adoption. His focus is reducing time-to-value by enabling repeatable patterns for text-to-SQL and AI-assisted insights that teams can deploy confidently at scale.

David Teague

Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

David Teague is a Technical Marketing Engineer based in Durham, North Carolina. He joined Nutanix in December 2019. Prior to his role at Nutanix, he served as an infrastructure architect and database administrator at his previous employer. As a member of the Technical Marketing team, David focuses on creating content for the Nutanix Database Service and Move. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, during which he has consistently managed or supported MSSQL databases, along with his roles as a storage and virtualization administrator. David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Rishi Thaper

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Introducing Rishi Thaper, a seasoned product manager with over 19 years of extensive expertise in Data Protection, Information Governance, User Behavior Analytics, and File Analytics. With a rich background in combating cyber threats, Rishi brings a wealth of experience to the forefront of discussions on Ransomware and other threats.

Having previously served pivotal roles at industry giants Symantec and Veritas, Rishi has been at the forefront of driving innovative solutions to combat evolving cyber threats and compliance requirements. Notably, he is spearheading the Go-to-Market strategy for Data Lens, a groundbreaking platform that empowers organisations to harness the power of data for informed decision-making.

Rishi holds an Executive MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, focusing on strategy and marketing, complemented by a master's degree in computer science from Pune University, offering a unique blend of technical acumen and strategic vision. This diverse skill set enables him to navigate the complex intersection of technology, security, and business with ease.

With a passion for staying ahead of the curve in cybersecurity trends and a commitment to driving impactful change, Rishi is poised to deliver invaluable insights and perspectives at the conference. Attendees can expect to gain profound insights into mitigating ransomware threats, leveraging advanced analytics, and fortifying data protection strategies in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Tony Giannini

Global VP of Innovation and VP of Channels, Americas, Assured Data Protection

Tony Giannini is Vice President of Channel Sales, Americas at Assured Data Protection, where he leads channel strategy and execution to advance cyber resiliency, and disaster recovery. He is focused on building high-performing partner ecosystems that deliver secure, resilient outcomes in today’s evolving threat landscape. Tony brings more than two decades of technology leadership experience spanning solutions architecture, services leadership, and channel revenue growth. Prior to joining Assured, he held senior leadership roles at Rubrik, CDW, and Nasuni, where he drove growth through execution and identifying untapped revenue adjacencies. Known for his high-energy leadership style and service-first mindset, Tony is passionate about building collaborative, accountable, and transparent team cultures that consistently deliver exceptional customer experiences across cyber security and managed services.

Umer Toor

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Umer Toor is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix, leading innovation in Nutanix Files and shaping storage solutions for AI. With over 15 years of deep expertise in the storage industry, throughout his career he has played a pivotal role in defining file storage strategies across multiple market segments, including scale-up, distributed, HPC, and Gen-AI. Before joining Nutanix, Umer built his career at EMC and Dell Technologies.

Mike Umphreys

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Mike Umphreys is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix focused on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR). In this role he designs, tests, and documents BC/DR solutions based on the Nutanix Platform which aids in creating guides, demos, and training for customers and the field. Mike has over 20 years of enterprise architecture experience and has expertise in storage and storage networking, as well as virtualization.

Nilesh Vaknalli

Service Provider Solution Architect, Nutanix

Nilesh Vaknalli is a Service Provider Solution Architect at Nutanix, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He specializes in designing and implementing cloud architectures for service providers, with a focus on multi-tenancy, hybrid cloud, and automation. With extensive experience in enabling partners and building scalable IaaS solutions, Nilesh drives strategic initiatives that help service providers accelerate their cloud transformation. Passionate about emerging technologies like Kubernetes, AI, and DevOps, he regularly conducts enablement sessions and contributes to field readiness programs across EMEA.

Ashwini Vasanth

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Ashwini Vasanth is Principal Product Manager for Nutanix Enterprise AI. She has over two decades of experience in Fortune 500 companies like Nokia, Verizon, and HP, and startups like DevRev, where she held engineering leadership and product management roles. She has built products in the areas of networking, security, distributed systems, consumer electronics, business process software, and AI, obsessing over security, scalability, and performance. Outside of work, she hosts a podcast called Through the Corporate Glass discussing AI and career choices.

Venu Vuppalapati

Principal Practice, Nutanix

Venu is the Principal Practice Lead at Nutanix, specializing in database architecture and AI/ML solutions. With over 20 years of experience, he has designed and delivered innovative platforms and services across multiple industries. Throughout his career, Venu has held leadership roles in database administration, systems management, virtualization engineering, consulting architecture, and AI infrastructure design for enterprise use cases. In his current global role, he leads the AI and Database Practices, driving enterprise solution design, developing customer-focused service offerings, and establishing frameworks that ensure consistent and scalable service delivery.

Marc Waldrop

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Marc has been on quite the journey during his nine plus year run at Nutanix. Marc began his time at Nutanix as a Strategic Intelligence Engineer. Unfortunately, due to the nature of intelligence work he can't really talk about it...top secret G-L-G 20 type stuff. His journey then took him into the ranks of Product Management for a few years, where he was the steward charged with driving forward the Files product within the Unified Storage group. He now finds himself as part of the Technical Marketing team helping to evangelize the greatness of the Nutanix platform. Marc is a veteran of the tech industry of over 25 years, that includes a 10 year run at NetApp in various roles, one of which was in Technical Marketing evangelizing their NAS offering.

Eric Walters

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, NCI & Security, Nutanix

Eric Walters is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer and a CISSP with 32 years of experience in security and networking. Eric has been with Nutanix for 10+ years.

Allan Waters

Director, Product Marketing, Nutanix

Allan Waters is a Director of Product Marketing at Nutanix. Allan has been in software sales and marketing roles for over 20 years. He spent 15 years at EMC (Dell) and VCE working on products such as Vblock, VxRack, ScaleIO, VxRail, and NetWorker. He’s been working with software defined and hyperconverged products for the past ten years and now focuses on Nutanix core Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) software. Allan holds a B.A. and an MBA from Assumption University in Massachusetts.

Michael Webster

Principal Solutions Architect - Engineering, Nutanix

Michael Webster is a 12 year Nutanix veteran, as well as Nutanix Platform Expert-007 and VMware Certified Design Expert-066. He is the co-author for Nutanix Validated Designs - Hybrid Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Reference Architectures and Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right (VMware Press 2014). He is the author of longwhiteclouds.com, virtualizing business-critical apps in hybrid cloud environments.

Steve Wenban

Advisory Systems Engineer, Nutanix

Steve is an Advisory Systems Engineer working with Enterprise customers in the UK. He joined Nutanix in 2016 and in that time has successfully transformed accounts with zero Nutanix footprint into large deployments supporting business-critical applications. Prior to Nutanix he spent 15+ years working in datacenter consultancy and presales roles. Steve is a Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX), and a reformed VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-DCV #123) who now happily sells the benefits of AHV and full stack Nutanix.

Kelly Willis

Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Kelly has 13 years experience in the retail and insurance industries working in business analytics, desktop administration, and cloud management focused on infrastructure and process automation. Over the last four years she has gotten the opportunity to work directly with other customers helping understand the benefits of automation and configuration management, operations, and security. Kelly is currently a Solutions Architect for the Nutanix Cloud Management team.

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