INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
Nutanix names Rukmini Sivaraman as CFO
Rukmini Sivaraman , Chief Financial Officer , Nutanix
Nutanix , a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing , has announced the appointment of Rukmini Sivaraman as Chief Financial Officer , effective May 1 , 2022 . Sivaraman will succeed Duston Williams , who is leaving to become CFO of a pre-IPO company in a different space . Williams will remain with Nutanix through April 30 , 2022 , and work closely with Sivaraman to facilitate a seamless transition .
Sivaraman joined Nutanix in 2017 and currently serves as Senior Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis . In this role , Sivaraman has been responsible for financial and strategic planning , budgeting , capital allocation and business analytics and insights . Sivaraman has held several roles instrumental to the company ’ s growth and transformation , including Chief People Officer – and before that Senior Vice President of People and Business Operations , focusing on revenue growth , capital allocation and all aspects of human resources .
Among her recent accomplishments , she played a leading role in the transaction under which Nutanix received a US $ 750 million investment from Bain Capital in September 2020 . Sivaraman brings a combination of extensive finance and technology experience , having previously spent eight years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York , executing strategic transactions , including IPOs , mergers and acquisitions and debt financing transactions for software companies .
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Veeam bolsters team with John Jester ’ s appointment as chief revenue officer
Veeam Software , a backup , recovery and data management solutions provider that delivers modern data protection , has announced that it has appointed John Jester as Chief Revenue Officer ( CRO ). Jester will lead Veeam ’ s go-to-market growth strategy and help build upon Veeam ’ s position as a leading provider of Modern Data Protection solutions , spanning cloud , virtual , physical , hybrid , SaaS and Kubernetes .
Jester joins Veeam from a successful tenure at Google Cloud where he helped build the go-tomarket organisation through his leadership of the customer experience organisation ; in this role , he drove cloud adoption and business value for customers , supporting Google Cloud ’ s growth to over US $ 23 billion ARR .
Prior to Google , Jester spent 20 years at Microsoft leading sales organisations and reimagining the GTM across the customer life cycle . Specific roles included Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Customer Success , where he established a new organisation to drive adoption of Microsoft ’ s cloud services , Vice President Worldwide Specialist Sales , where he led enterprise sales strategy across the full suite of enterprise cloud services , General Manager UK Enterprise and Partner Group and General Manager of Global Accounts , with responsibility for sales to Microsoft ’ s top 100 enterprise customers . Throughout his career , Jester has worked closely with partners and sees them as integral to crafting solutions for customers .
John Jester , Chief Revenue Officer , Veeam
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