Experts appointed to help Nutanix grow

Nutanix has appointed Mandy Dhaliwal as Chief Marketing Officer and Shyam Desirazu as Head of Engineering. Each brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling high-performing, mission-driven organizations. They will both report to Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami.

“Both Mandy and Shyam are exceptional leaders with proven technological savvy and unique insight into what it takes to build and drive industry leading solutions that meet the needs of the market,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, President and Chief Executive Officer at Nutanix. “The addition of Mandy and Shyam to our organization will be instrumental in driving our vision as Nutanix continues its next phase of growth.”

“I am very excited about the opportunity to take Nutanix’s industry leading cloud platform to market and showcase how we uniquely enable enterprises to modernize their applications and digitally transform their businesses with speed, simplicity and efficiency,” said Dhaliwal. “As we move steadily into a hybrid multicloud era, I will be laser focused on driving long-term sustainable growth for the Nutanix business and tangible value for our customers.”

Dhaliwal brings to Nutanix over 25 years of experience driving growth and innovation strategies across the cloud and software markets, as well as building high-performing, mission-driven organizations. In this role, she will collaborate closely with the company’s executive leadership team to drive a global marketing strategy that will accelerate the adoption of Nutanix’s enterprise hybrid multicloud solutions.

“Many businesses today are grappling with the reality of multicloud deployments,” said Desirazu. “I believe that hybrid multicloud is the future and that Nutanix’s fast-moving culture of innovation is uniquely positioned to help customers navigate today’s cloud complexities, while deploying solutions that help to future-proof IT. The opportunity to lead and build Nutanix’s engineering organization as the industry evolves towards this future is incredibly exciting.”

Desirazu will collaborate closely with Ramaswami and the Nutanix executive leadership team to evolve and drive the company’s technology and platform vision, roadmap, innovation strategy, and R&D investments across the portfolio in this role. He will be in charge of the organization’s engineering function and will play a critical role in driving the company’s future growth.

Desirazu brings deep technical and leadership expertise from positions in early-stage startups, high-growth businesses, and large public enterprises, as well as more than 20 years of experience building and scaling world-class engineering teams. In this capacity, he led the engineering team responsible for the development of VMware Cloud on AWS as well as other cloud solutions. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering at BlueTalon, where he was responsible for establishing the global development organization as well as defining the product design, strategic partnership, and engineering processes. He has also served in engineering leadership roles at Panzura, Zynga, Citrix, and Netapp.