Nutanix appoints Dominick Delfino as Chief Revenue Officer

Dominick Delfino has been named Chief Revenue Officer of Nutanix, starting December 6, 2021. Delfino will be in charge of the company’s global sales organization, which will include sales engineering, sales operations, inside sales, OEM sales, and channel sales.

“Dom is a talented leader with a proven track record of scaling businesses, has a strong history of delivering on go-to-market strategies and sales growth, and is an ideal fit for our company culture,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, President and CEO of Nutanix.

He added, “Dom’s global sales and industry leadership experience, combined with his innate understanding of what customers want and need, will be invaluable to our continued growth and success as we help our customers navigate to a hybrid multicloud future. I have known Dom for almost twenty years and I look forward to working closely with him as we expand our go-to-market presence, deliver on our long-term financial goals, and drive value for our stakeholders.”

“I have long admired Nutanix for its industry-defining technology, strong customer-centric culture, and large market opportunity,” said Delfino.

He also said, “I’m excited to join this talented team to deliver exceptional customer satisfaction and drive revenue growth. Given the simplicity, flexibility, and resilience of Nutanix’s powerful Cloud Platform, I see tremendous opportunity to build on Nutanix’s strong foundation and continue expanding its loyal partner and customer base.”

Delfino has more than 20 years of international sales experience, having led software sales and system engineering teams at a variety of technology and software firms. Delfino was most recently Chief Revenue Officer at Pure Storage, where he was in charge of overseeing and growing the sales team as well as devising distinctive go-to-market strategies. Delfino formerly worked at VMware for six years, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager of all VMware sales in the Americas. Dominick had a lot of experience marketing VMware’s Cloud Foundation and VSAN technologies while at VMware. Prior to that, he was the global sales leader for VMware’s networking, storage, cloud management, and cloud foundation teams. Delfino previously spent 14 years with Cisco, where he was responsible for worldwide data centre and virtualization technology strategy as well as pre-sales systems engineering. Delfino graduated from the State University of New York Morrisville with a bachelor’s degree in engineering science.