Ramasvami Rajiv (Rajiv Ramaswami)

Ramasvami Rajiv (Rajiv Ramaswami)

Biography

Education

Rajiv Ramasvami received the bachelor's degree in the field of electrical equipment at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and also degree of the master and doctor of science in the field of electrical equipment and information science in the University of California in Berkeley.

Career

Ramasvami is the experienced head in the technology industry. He started a career in IBM, and then held executive positions in the companies VMware Broadcom, Cisco and Nortel.

2020: Position assignment of the president and CEO of Nutanix

On December 9, 2020 Nutanix announced Rajiv Ramasvami's appointment the new president and the CEO of the company. He will succeed the co-founder the Dirajah to Dheeraj Pandey who announced resignation several months before — in August.

As the leading independent director of Nutanix Sokhaib Abbasi noted, among candidates for a post of the head of the company Rajiv Ramasvami was selected with "a rare combination of operational discipline, a business grasp, technology vision and outstanding leadership skills".

The talented Nutanix command under the leadership of Rajiv has all opportunities for steady growth, increase in efficiency and consolidation of leadership in emerging market of hybrid cloud infrastructure, - Abbasi said.

Before heading Nutanix, Ramasvami worked in VMware as the operating officer on products and cloud services where at the same time managed a product portfolio and company services. He carried out a number of important transactions on acquisition of the companies and played a key role in transition of VMware to models of a subscription and SaaS. The analyst of Constellation Research Holger Müller considers for Nutanix appointment of the top manager of VMware the new CEO the correct step, considering that the companies very quickly become competitors.

According to the expert, Nutanix involved the talented head who is the expert in multicloud computing and which the leaving VMware "weakened the key competitor in terms of the personnel".

By December, 2020 work experience of Rajiv Ramasvami in the IT industry makes about 30 years. In the past it worked in such companies as Broadcom, Cisco, Nortel and IBM.

I admire Nutanix as the terrible competitor, the pioneer in the field of solutions for hyper convergent infrastructure and the leader in the field of the cloud software long ago — Ramasvami said, commenting on the appointment to the post of the CEO of Nutanix.

He also hoped that he will be able to use the industry knowledge for further development of the company.^[1]

For December, 2020 Rajiv Ramasvami is also the research associate of Institute of electrical and electronic engineers and radio electronics (IEEE) and holds 36 patents, mainly in the field of optical networks.

Rajiv is the correct leader in due time, - the cofounder of Nutanix Diradzh Pandey told. - We have a perspective business model loyal and constantly extending customer base and a strong technology portfolio, I look forward to an opportunity to transfer a steering wheel of management to Rajiv that he headed this improbable command. Ahead decade when it is worth monitoring the company most of which of all appreciates simplicity, reasonableness and reliability. For me was honor to service our clients and partners together with the staff of Nutanix.

Diradzh Pandey will leave Board of Directors since December 14, 2020 to provide succession to the forthcoming annual shareholder meeting Nutanix.

2020: President, CEO and board member of Nutanix

On December 10, 2020 it became known that the Board of Directors of Nutanix appointed Rajiv Ramasvami Prezidentom and the CEO of the company and also the member of council. Ramasvami became the successor of the co-founder of the Pandey's Dirajah company who announced earlier intention to resign as the CEO.

Rajiv is the experienced leader with experience of management and ensuring growth of the portfolio of products and services, - Sokhaib Abbasi, the leading independent director of Nutanix told. - Among other candidates of Rajiv distinguishes a rare combination of operational discipline, a business grasp, technology vision and comprehensive leadership skills. The Nutanix command under the leadership of Rajiv has all opportunities for steady growth, increase in efficiency and consolidation of leadership in emerging market of hybrid cloud infrastructure.

It is disturbing moment - to join Nutanix during big changes for the company and the industry, - Ramasvami says. - In close cooperation with Board of Directors, a team of managers and more than 6000 talented employees worldwide, we will rely on the strong base of Nutanix including innovations, cooperation and satisfaction of customer needs. Together we will seize all opening opportunities for growth and value creation of the company.

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