Sanjay Poonen

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Mr. Sanjay Poonen serves as Member of the Supervisory Board at Philips. Mr. Poonen serves as Chief Executive officer, President & Board Member at Cohesity. He served as Chief Operating Officer, Customer Operations at VMware. He serves as Advisor at Icertis, BigPanda, and Acceldata. He serves as Advisor & Investor at Garden City Equity. He is responsible for worldwide sales, services, support, marketing and alliances. He serves as Board Member at Snyk. Mr. Poonen is also responsible for the Security strategy and business at VMware. Previously, he held the role of executive vice president and general manager for the End-User Computing business unit at VMware, where he ran the business end-to-end, from engineering to sales. Before VMware, he was president of Platform Solutions at SAP AG. During his more than seven years at SAP, he held several executive-level roles in product development and sales, including leading SAP's Analytics, Big Data, Mobile and all Industry Business Units, driving many solutions to industry-leading market positions. Prior to SAP, he held executive roles at Symantec, VERITAS and Informatica and he began his career as a software engineer at Microsoft, followed by Apple. He serves on the Board of Directors of Infor and the Advisory Board of Docusign. Mr. Poonen holds two patents as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated a Baker Scholar; a master's degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in computer science, math and engineering from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.