Industry Leaders at .NEXT

Keynote Speakers

José Andrés

Chef, Restaurateur, and Author of
Change the Recipe

Evy Poumpouras

Former Secret Service Special Agent and Interrogator, NBC Law Enforcement and National Security Analyst

Featured Speakers

Rajiv Ramaswami

Chief Executive Officer, Nutanix

Rajiv Ramaswami

Chief Executive Officer, Nutanix

Mr. Ramaswami has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since December 2020. A seasoned technology industry executive, Mr. Ramaswami has more than 30 years of experience spanning software, cloud services, and network infrastructure. He brings to our company a proven track record of building and scaling enterprises and teams, having a strong customer-centric approach, operational execution and developing innovative products and solutions to drive growth and value creation. Prior to joining Nutanix, Mr. Ramaswami served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services at VMware, Inc., a virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions company, from October 2016 until December 2020. From April 2016 to October 2016, Mr. Ramaswami led VMware’s Networking and Security business as Executive Vice President and General Manager. Mr. Ramaswami served as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom, a semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions company, from February 2010 to January 2016, where he established Broadcom as a leader in data center, enterprise, and carrier networking. Prior to Broadcom, he served in multiple General Manager roles at Cisco across switching, data center, storage and optical networking business units. Earlier in his career, he held various leadership positions at Nortel, Tellabs, and IBM. Mr. Ramaswami also served as a member of the board of directors of NeoPhotonics Corporation, a manufacturer of telecommunications circuits, from March 2014 to August 2022. Mr. Ramaswami is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and holds 36 patents, primarily in optical networking. Mr. Ramaswami holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Glenn Allison

Vice President, IT Enterprise AI Platforms & AI Solution Engineering, Tractor Supply Company

Glenn Allison

Vice President, IT Enterprise AI Platforms & AI Solution Engineering, Tractor Supply Company

Glenn Allison is Vice President, Enterprise AI Platforms and AI Solution Engineering for Tractor Supply Company, the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States with more than 2,200 stores in 49 states and 50,000 Team Members. In his role, Glenn is responsible for AI & ML Platforms, TSC & Me AI Platform, LLMOps and MLOps AI Engineering, Data Engineering & Governance, Cloud AI Platforms, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Data Centers & Critical Facilities, Merchandising Systems, Product Information Management, SAP / Finance, Legal, Real Estate, HRIS.
Tractor Supply is frequently recognized as one of the best workplaces for IT professionals, including 2024 CIO 100 award for innovation with AI and Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT.
Prior to Tractor Supply, Glenn worked at Kellogg Company, where he led global architecture and engineering functions to support supply chain modernization. Glenn also previously held several leadership roles at W.W. Grainger, one of the largest eCommerce retailers in the United States.
Glenn received his MBA from the University of Chicago and Master of Science in Information Technology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
He currently serves on the CNBC Technology Executive Council, Technology Leadership Council for the National Retail Federation (NRF), Nashville Technology Council, and is a lifetime member of the FFA. Glenn was named to the “40 Under 40” list by the Nashville Business Journal in 2016.

Tony Bacon

Global Head of Infrastructure, Moody’s Corporation

Manish Bhatia

Executive Vice President, Global Operations, Micron Technology

Manish Bhatia

Executive Vice President, Global Operations, Micron Technology

Manish Bhatia is executive vice president, Global Operations at Micron Technology.
Manish is responsible for the company’s end-to-end operations, delivering industry-leading technology and products at scale. He has a proven track record of driving semiconductor manufacturing excellence with best-in-class supply chain and quality performance. Manish’s scope includes fab and assembly/test manufacturing, packaging & test development, quality, supply chain, procurement, government and public affairs functions, as well as information technology, smart manufacturing and artificial intelligence. He joined Micron in 2017.
Manish has over 25 years of engineering and operations experience. He held several executive roles at Western Digital Corporation, SanDisk Corporation, Matrix Semiconductor, and in consulting at McKinsey & Company.
Manish currently serves on the board of the U.S.-Japan Business Council whose mission is to advance U.S. business interests in Japan and promote stronger economic ties between the United States and Japan.
Manish was awarded Singapore’s Public Service Medal (Friends of Singapore) in 2024 in recognition of his public service and the critical role he has played in securing the country’s position as a critical node in the global semiconductor supply chain.
Manish earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in business administration from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, which he attended as a Leaders for Manufacturing fellow.

Manosiz Bhattacharyya

Chief Technology Officer, Nutanix

Manosiz Bhattacharyya

Chief Technology Officer, Nutanix

Manosiz Bhattacharyya (Mano) is the Chief Technology Officer at Nutanix. He has been in the company for over a decade, and has held various engineering and product management leadership roles. Manosiz started as an individual contributor and an early employee, building the hyper-converged distributed storage stack. He then moved on to lead and run Engineering and Product Management for Nutanix core infrastructure services. Currently, Manosiz leads the future architecture and technology direction for Nutanix, partnering with customers to understand their requirements and use cases and working with them to provide appropriate solutions. His primary interest is in hybrid cloud use cases and new workloads that can run on Nutanix. Before Nutanix, Manosiz held technology leadership roles in the RDBMS kernel group in Oracle, focusing on data and transaction management. While at Oracle, he also worked extensively on the database layer of the Exadata DB appliance - converging the DB compute into the storage layer.
Manosiz is a keen technology enthusiast holding several U.S. patents. He has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Aloe Blacc

Grammy-Nominated and Multi-Platinum Artist

Aloe Blacc

Grammy-Nominated and Multi-Platinum Artist

Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum, singer/songwriter, Aloe Blacc, who is known for major hits such as “I Need A Dollar”, “The Man”, and “Wake Me Up”, pledged early in his career to use his music for positive social transformation. Aloe refers to his style of music as thematic, calling it "A.I.M." which stands for affirmation, inspiration, and motivation.A recipient of RIAA diamond certification, his mega-hit with Avicii, “WAKE ME UP,” has achieved more than 4 billion streams across multiple platforms. Aloe recently released his latest musical project titled “Stand Together”, with a focus on amplifying the mission of non-profit organizations.In addition to music, Aloe is the founder of Major Inc, a biotech company with a drug development platform focused on cancer treatments. With the help of chief scientist, Dr. Gomika Udugamasooriya, the company has conducted promising research to identify medicinal candidates for oncology, infectious disease, and immune dysregulation.

Carol Carpenter

Chief Marketing Officer, Cohesity

Carol Carpenter

Chief Marketing Officer, Cohesity

Carol is a geek with a passion for technology and solving customer problems. She's been in tech marketing for most of her career, starting as a product manager at Apple. She loves building and scaling new products and has done that at large and small companies in varying roles as CMO, GM, CEO and most recently as CMO of Unity, a real-time 3D software engine. Prior to that, Carol was CMO at VMware where her teams helped drive the transformation to a multi-cloud company. She has also held leadership roles at Google Cloud, Trend Micro and more.
She is particularly proud of the high-performance teams she's developed and the fact that many of her prior marketing mavens are all doing impactful work across tech companies. She continues to mentor humans via the HBS women entrepreneurship program and Monte Jade, an AAPI professional organization.

Lee Caswell

Senior Vice President, Product and Solutions Marketing, Nutanix

Thomas Cornely

Senior Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix

Thomas Cornely

Senior Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix

Thomas Cornely is the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Nutanix, leading the company’s product portfolio strategy. He brings more than two decades of experience in product and engineering leadership roles in enterprise infrastructure software, storage, cloud and data management. Before joining Nutanix, Cornely served as Vice President of Product Management at Rubrik. Prior to Rubrik, he was Chief Product Officer at Nexenta Systems (acquired by DataDirect Networks) where he was responsible for product strategy, planning and delivery. He also held senior product leadership roles working on scale-out analytics data platforms at Greenplum (acquired by EMC) and cross platform storage and availability management software (VxVM, VxFS, CFS and VCS) at Veritas (acquired by Symantec). Thomas received his MBA from MIT Sloan in Cambridge, MA and holds a Master in EE/CS from CentraleSupélec in France.

Mandy Dhaliwal

Chief Marketing Officer, Nutanix

Mandy Dhaliwal

Chief Marketing Officer, Nutanix

Mandy Dhaliwal is the Chief Marketing Officer at Nutanix where she oversees the company’s global marketing strategy to accelerate customer adoption of its enterprise hybrid multicloud solutions. Before joining Nutanix, Mandy was the Chief Marketing Officer for Boomi where she was responsible for leading, planning and executing the company's go-to-market, brand presence, product marketing, demand generation, partner marketing, field marketing, customer advocacy, strategic events and corporate communications programs. Mandy has more than 25 years of B2B experience in driving growth and innovation strategies across the cloud and software markets. During her career, Mandy has held senior leadership positions at venture-backed startups and public corporations like Fugue, BlazeMeter, SOASTA, EMC, and Legato Systems. Mandy holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management and Marketing from Simon Fraser University.

Allison Grimes

Vice President of the Strategic Sales Organization, SHI

Annie Headley

Vice President, Global Marketing, Nutanix

Annie Headley

Vice President, Global Marketing, Nutanix

Annie Headley is a senior marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience building and leading global teams across brand, communications, and demand generation. Currently serving as Vice President of Global Marketing at Nutanix, she brings a passion for storytelling, team building, and go-to-market leadership that drives results in fast-paced enterprise environments. Annie has held leadership roles at companies including F5, Alteryx, and HPE, and is known for creating high-impact marketing strategies that align to business goals and accelerate growth. She is also a frequent industry speaker and mentor, and thrives on bringing energy, clarity, and connection to the brands she leads.

Kraig Hufstedler

Team Leader - Platform As A Service, Edward Jones

Kraig Hufstedler

Team Leader - Platform As A Service, Edward Jones

Kraig Hufstedler is a Team Leader at Edward Jones and leads the Platform As A Service team, responsible for on-premises Kubernetes platforms. Kraig has served as an engineering leader for multiple large organizations, both in the application development space and on the infrastructure side. He began his career as a freelance web developer for small businesses, which has given him a unique perspective on delivering value and connecting technology solutions to business need. In his role at Edward Jones, he seeks to help his team build a resilient platform that enables application development teams to quickly and reliably deploy business critical applications.

Diana Kander

New York Times Best-Selling Author and Innovation Consultant

Diana Kander

New York Times Best-Selling Author and Innovation Consultant

A New York Times best-selling author and innovation consultant, Diana Kander has spent her career challenging assumptions and asking big questions - what kind of culture needs to exist in an organization to ensure innovative ideas and practices? How has Snoop Dogg continued to innovate decade after decade to stay relevant to the next generation? What causes name brands to lose relevance with their customers and go out of business? A serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee at the age of 8, she has launched and sold millions of dollars’ worth of products and services. Her first book, All In Startup, has been used by over 100 universities in their innovation courses and countless large organizations to help their employees think more like entrepreneurs. Her second book, The Curiosity Muscle walks readers through a methodology to keep curiosity alive and thriving inside of an organization, ultimately, future-proofing the business.

Maciej Kranz

General Manager, Enterprise, Pure Storage

Bryan Lubeck

Vice President, Americas Marketing, Nutanix

Tarkan Maner

Chief Commercial Officer, Nutanix

Tarkan Maner

Chief Commercial Officer, Nutanix

Tarkan Maner is the Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix where he leads global business development and corporate development efforts, with a focus on strategic partnerships, alliances, system integrators, and service providers. Additionally, his responsibilities include leading critical hybrid cloud-focused strategy and product teams including Nutanix’s core virtualization platform (AHV), software-defined networking, and some of the key hybrid cloud services. Before joining Nutanix, he served as Chairman and CEO at Nexenta Systems, Inc., leading the organization from its open-source focus through its acquisition by DataDirect Networks (DDN) in May 2019. Prior to Nexenta, he was the President and CEO at Wyse Technology, one of the virtual desktop computing pioneers acquired by Dell in 2012. He also held executive roles at Dell, CA Technologies, IBM, and Sterling Software. Tarkan serves and served on the boards of several organizations including Teradici, CloudCheckr, Wheels, and leading non-profit organizations in Silicon Valley. Tarkan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering management, an MBA from Midwestern State University and an AMP from Harvard Business School.

Avinash Shetty

Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix

Avinash Shetty

Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix

Avinash Shetty is Vice President, Product Management at Nutanix. Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, freeing customers to focus on their business outcomes. He has been with Nutanix since 2013 and started out as one of the early Product Managers driving product direction, specifically the NX portfolio roadmap. Over the years, he was responsible for pricing and licensing, sales, operations and helping the company pivot to software and subscription selling. He is focused on the broader Nutanix portfolio strategy, cross product roadmap as well as dissecting the broader competitive landscape. With a background in engineering and Product Management and his ability to work across various teams within the organization, he has worn multiple hats at this time at Nutanix and filled gaps in various domains when needed. He has the rare ability to connect with customers while having a depth of knowledge across multiple disciplines.Before Nutanix, Avinash spent 5 years at Riverbed Technology, working in various roles and working closely with customers and internal organizations with a focus on the networking and storage domains. He helped shape early workloads and use cases for the SteelFusion product line. He also spent 8 years at Cisco Systems, working in the security space on the PIX/ASA product line.Avinash graduated from the University of Southern California with an M.S. in Computer Science. He lives in Palo Alto, CA and likes to tinker with various technologies, stay active and spend time with his two kids.

Inder Sidhu

Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Nutanix

Inder Sidhu

Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Nutanix

Inder Sidhu is the Chief Customer Experience Officer at Nutanix where he leads Global Services, Support, Customer Success and SaaS Engineering. Before rejoining Nutanix, he served as Chief Customer Officer at Innovaccer, a Healthcare technology company. Prior to that, Inder was at Nutanix as the EVP of Customer Experience from 2017 to 2022. Inder’s leadership experience across Engineering, Sales, Services, Support, Customer Success, IT and Strategy includes two decades at Cisco as the leader of Cisco’s $16B Enterprise business, Cisco’s Worldwide Professional Services organization, and the Strategy & Planning organization for Cisco Sales & Services. Prior experience also includes being a consultant with McKinsey, an engineer with Intel, and a developer with a successful Silicon Valley start-up through its IPO. Inder has served on the boards of Goodwill of Silicon Valley, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two business books, including “Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth”, a New York Times bestseller. Inder holds an MBA from Wharton, an AMP from Harvard Business School, MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Rachel Skaff

Managing Director - America's Partner and Channel Sales, AWS

Rachel Skaff

Managing Director - America's Partner and Channel Sales, AWS

Rachel is the Head of North America Partner Sales at AWS, leveraging Partners to accelerate growth, drive innovation and shape the future.
She is a customer-obsessed global leader with 25 years of experience developing, implementing and selling technology. After starting out as an award-winning engineer in heavy highway construction, Rachel pursued computer programming – and realized her skillset was better suited to solving customer problems than writing code.
Before joining AWS, Rachel served as Vice President and General Manager at Intel Corporation, overseeing US Sales Enterprise, Government and Next Wave Cloud Providers. Prior to Intel, Rachel spent nearly a decade at Petsmart as Vice President, IT Global Enterprise Applications and Engineering. Rachel has also held engineering and technology roles at DHL, Fujitsu Consulting, American Express and Analysts International Corporation.
Throughout the twists and turns of her career, one constant has been a deep commitment to inclusivity, diversity and equity. She is passionate about creating high-performing work environments where all employees feel represented, respected, valued and empowered. She is an active supporter of STEM education programs and an advocate for providing the next-up generations with opportunities to build the future we all want to live in. Rachel holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University, an MBA in International Business from Regis University and is an alumna of Columbia’s Graduate School of Business in New York. She lives in the Phoenix area and can be found hiking, boating and going on off-the-beaten-path travel adventures with her four children.

Barrett Sprague

Assistant Vice President, Infrastructure, Cloud Services, Assurant

Mike Taylor

Hospital Ship Joint Task Director, Military Sealift Command and the U.S. Navy

Mike Taylor

Hospital Ship Joint Task Director, Military Sealift Command and the U.S. Navy

A Marine Veteran, Mike Taylor is a proven leader in Information Technology, Communications, and Expeditionary Healthcare, with over 20 years of experience spanning both industry and military healthcare. His career has progressed from Help Desk support to Chief Information Officer, demonstrating a deep technical foundation and strategic leadership expertise.
Currently serving as the Hospital Ship Joint Task Director for Military Sealift Command and the U.S. Navy, Mike plays a critical role in ensuring the operational readiness and effectiveness of maritime medical support missions. His experience in IT strategy and healthcare logistics makes him a trusted leader in high-stakes environments.

Session Speakers

Alex Almeida

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Nutanix

Kapil Anandani

Technical Marketing Engineer, NKP and Cloud Native, Nutanix

Ashok

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Kees Baggerman

Technical Senior Director - Engineering, Nutanix

Kees Baggerman

Technical Senior Director - Engineering, Nutanix

Kees Baggerman is a recognized expert in end-user computing (EUC), healthcare IT, and hyperconverged infrastructure. With over two decades of experience in the IT industry, Kees has helped organizations across various sectors modernize their IT environments to deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and user experiences. Passionate about transforming healthcare through technology, he focuses on enabling secure, efficient, and patient-centric solutions. Kees is also a leader in leveraging hyperconverged infrastructure to simplify IT operations and drive innovation. A sought-after speaker, Kees is known for his engaging presentations that bridge technical depth with actionable insights, empowering organizations to succeed in their digital transformation journeys.

Shan Balasubramanian

DevOps and Server Support Manager, Montgomery County, Maryland

Shan Balasubramanian

DevOps and Server Support Manager, Montgomery County, Maryland

Shan is the DevOps and Server Support Manager for Montgomery County, Maryland, one of the largest counties in the DC area. Shan brings 25+ years of development and platform engineering expertise through extensive experience in managing complex projects. Shan and his team at Montgomery County delivered the migration, overseeing the successful transition of a major U.S. county’s ~1,000 VMs and hundreds of terabytes of file systems to a Nutanix Cloud. As a seasoned leader, he brings a unique perspective to operational strategy and resilience. Shan is excited to share insights, offering practical lessons on streamlining IT operations and fortifying systems against modern threats.

Bob Ball

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Mr. Young J. Bang

Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Army - Acquisition, Logistics & Technology

Mr. Young J. Bang

Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Army - Acquisition, Logistics & Technology

Prior to joining ASA(ALT), Mr. Bang served at the C Suite or EVP level at multiple large and mid size companies leading P&L, building business and growth and product development across services and product companies. He has broad experience in M&A on both buy and sell side and has used his broad knowledge of addressable markets to guide the growth in existing, adjacent and new markets/capabilities. His extensive experience spans commercial and federal consulting covering technology, healthcare, telecom and strategy. From a technology perspective, he has deep expertise in Cutting Edge Technology (Quantum, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, AR/VR/MR/XR etc.) and Digital Transformation (Modern Software Development, Big Data, Cloud, IoT) to drive growth across multiple markets from Army, Navy, Air Force, Joint, Intelligence, Health (Federal and Commercial), DHS, DoJ, DoT and DoS. Mr. Bang has worked in product development in hardware and software, cyber, data and AI as well as startups during the dotcom period. Prior to that Mr. Bang served in the Army in various leadershippositions across Ft Bragg, Korea and Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

Ezequiel Bautista

Senior Systems Engineer, Nutanix

Vivek Baveja

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Vivek Baveja

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Vivek Baveja is a Principal Product Manager leading service provider market at Nutanix. He is an experienced technology and business leader, skilled in developing and launching innovative products and solutions for a variety of market segments. With expertise in product management, he has led teams across multiple roles, including leading product management at AWS, where he drove product strategy and market positioning for cloud-based services and solutions. He has also led product management for data center and cloud networking products at companies like Cisco, Extreme Networks, and Brocade, with a focus on enterprise, service provider (SP), hybrid and multicloud environments.

Reed Beaver

Server Engineer, Dawn Foods Products

Kanuj Behl

Cloud Transformation Architect, Nutanix

Hemant Belbase

Senior Staff Performance Engineer, Nutanix

Mark Belluz

Managing Director, CAS Severn

Jennifer Bergstrom

Vice President, Cloud and Data Solutions, Parsons Corporation

Jennifer Bergstrom

Vice President, Cloud and Data Solutions, Parsons Corporation

Jennifer Bergstrom is an innovative leader with two decades of experience in the public sector. As the VP of Cloud and Data Solutions at Parsons and Technical Fellow, she drives the Federal multi- and hybrid-cloud strategy, heads the Cloud Center of Excellence, and ensures project teams have the tools, processes, and knowledge they need to deliver innovative, efficient, cost-effective, secure, and elegant solutions in the cloud. She is fully certified in AWS and holds multiple certifications in Azure, OCI, and GCP in addition to hands-on experience built over a decade of architecting and developing solutions in cloud. Jennifer combines her deep technical knowledge with broad leadership experience and a strategic mindset to enable mission success. Jennifer is passionate about leveraging cloud, AI, and emerging technologies for intelligent innovation and is a sought-after speaker, mentor, and career coach. Jennifer holds an MS in computer science from Colorado Technical University and a BS in electrical engineering from Utah State University.

Abhishek Bhaiya

Senior Director, Service Provider, Nutanix

Rishi Bhardwaj

Vice President Engineering, Nutanix

Arvind Bhoj

Senior Solutions Architect - Cloud Native, Nutanix

Patricia Bogoevici

Senior Director, Worldwide Channel Systems Engineering, Nutanix

Patricia Bogoevici

Senior Director, Worldwide Channel Systems Engineering, Nutanix

Patricia Bogoevici is the Head of Worldwide Channel System Engineering at Nutanix. In this role, she is responsible for defining, building, and executing the strategy for technical solution selling and enablement for the Nutanix global partner ecosystem, which includes global and regional system integrators, strategic alliances, independent software vendors and distribution and resale channel partners.An experienced IT executive with more than 20 years in the industry, prior to joining Nutanix Patricia was part of the sales leadership at Red Hat and VMware. As a presales leader focusing on large financial services accounts, she had a strong collaboration with global services integrators on digital transformation and application modernization projects, focusing on the adoption of infrastructure-as-code, containers, and platform-as-a-service.

Peter Bom

Advisory Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Peter Bom

Advisory Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Peter serves as the EMEA Solutions Architect for Unified Storage at Nutanix.With over 25 years of experience in Enterprise IT, Peter has worked across operations, architecture, and pre-sales, bringing a wealth of knowledge from diverse industries and leading technology vendors. His expertise spans storage, security, and virtualization, making him a trusted advisor in designing and implementing advanced IT solutions.In his current role, Peter helps customers and partners understand how Nutanix delivers and secures a truly unified storage service for unstructured data. His passion lies in simplifying complex technologies to deliver clear value and tangible outcomes for businesses.

David Brett

Senior Solution Architect, Nutanix

Mat Brown

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Mat Brown

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Based in East London, Mat joined the UK team as a Cloud Architect and Systems Engineer more than five years ago. Before Nutanix, he had IT roles across customers, vendors and service providers, large and small. Most notably, he’s been a Lead Technical Architect at a Global Systems Integrator working on large multi-supplier transition projects, and a Technical Architect at a Nutanix customer that ran a SaaS service for the legal industry. Two years ago, Mat joined the Technical Marketing Engineering team, initially to focus on customer’s sustainability challenges in the data center. He now splits his time between this and how hybrid multicloud can address a multitude of business challenges for customers all around the world, including those of energy use and physical footprint.

Chris Brown

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Nutanix

Peter Bryant

Analyst, Canalys

Tommy Burke

Senior Manager, Channel Systems Engineering, Nutanix

Tommy Burke

Senior Manager, Channel Systems Engineering, Nutanix

Tommy Burke is a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience in solution architecture, channel systems engineering, and partner enablement. As a Senior Manager of Channel Systems Engineering at Nutanix, Tommy drives engineering strategies across North America and LATAM, fostering executive alignment, developing partner ecosystems, and advancing AI and DevOps initiatives. Prior to Nutanix, Tommy held key leadership roles at Red Hat and Hewlett Packard, consistently exceeding revenue targets and mentoring high-performing teams. Tommy is recognized for his strategic vision and technical expertise and is passionate about building innovative solutions and strong industry partnerships.

Nick Burnett

Infrastructure Operations Manager, London Gatwick Airport

Jason Burns

Director, NCI Technical Marketing Management, Nutanix

Todd Burris

Expert Systems Engineer, CSC

Todd Burris

Expert Systems Engineer, CSC

Todd Burris is an Expert Systems Engineer at CSC, a leading provider of business administration and compliance solutions. With over 20 years of IT experience, he has focused on virtualization and hyperconverged technologies. In his current role, Todd is recognized as a subject matter expert in the virtualization discipline, with expertise in managing enterprise environments.
He has supported complex virtualization environments in the following industries: higher education, health care, data analytics, SaaS providers, and more. He has been able to consistently reduce complexity, improve stability, and increase reliability in the environments he has managed.
Todd's passion for automation extends to both his personal and professional life. He leverages tools like PowerShell and Home Assistant to streamline processes at home and work, improving efficiency and reducing complexity.
Throughout his career, he has achieved numerous certifications, including the Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX) #79. Todd is also an active participant in the Nutanix Technology Champion program, Nutanix User Group leader, and a member of the Nutanix Technology Advisory Board.

Steve Carter

Product Marketing Management Director - NCI, Nutanix

Steve Carter

Product Marketing Management Director - NCI, Nutanix

Steve Carter has dedicated over a decade to pioneering and advancing hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making cloud architectures accessible to Enterprise IT organizations. Having left Salesforce in 2011 to join Nutanix, he started out in engineering, and quickly turned his attention to educating the market about HCI as a transformational model for IT. He has worked directly with customers on the design and implementation of large-scale deployments, and has recently focused on articulating the unique benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure and Nutanix specifically to the broader market. Steve has a Computer Science degree from the University of California in Santa Barbara.

Nuthawin (Joe) Charoensri

Senior IT Technical Specialist, Labcorp

Michael Chavez

Chief Technology Officer, IBC Bank

Sachin Chheda

Senior Director, Business Development and Strategic Partnership, Nutanix

Sachin Chheda

Senior Director, Business Development and Strategic Partnership, Nutanix

Sachin Chheda is responsible for Service Provider and System Integrator partnerships at Nutanix. He has long been involved with the IT infrastructure, cloud and AI/ML space for over two decades with roles in engineering, product management, go-to-market, sales, and business development. His previous professional experience includes roles at Hewlett Packard, NetApp, Nimble Storage, and WEKA. Sachin holds masters and bachelors degrees in electrical and computing engineering with a specialization in business and economics from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Sachin has long been a believer in building better outcomes takes a strong community and applies this to his personal and professional life.

Dan Ciruli

Senior Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Patrick Coke

Senior Virtualization Engineer, Pearson

Luke Congdon

Senior Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Luke Congdon

Senior Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Luke Congdon is a Senior Director of Product Management at Nutanix and leads the product team for Nutanix Enterprise AI (AI/ML), AHV, the Nutanix native hypervisor, and end-user computing. Prior to Nutanix, Luke has built and brought numerous products to market, including start-up MVPs and billion-dollar product lines at seminal Silicon Valley technology companies, including VMware, NetApp, and Sun Microsystems. Luke received a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut. He also attended Harvard University’s Leadership for Senior Executives program. He has been embedded in Silicon Valley technology companies since 2000.

Jirah Cox

Principal Cloud Transformation Architect, Nutanix

Jirah Cox

Principal Cloud Transformation Architect, Nutanix

Jirah serves on the Cloud Transformation Architects team at Nutanix covering the Americas. In this role, he supports field teams on the largest and most complex of deals, works with Product Management on aligning feature development to customer needs, and coaches customers on deploying the full Nutanix stack at scale to operationalize their hybrid multicloud. He has been at Nutanix over seven years, all in the SE organization, and lives in the Raleigh, North Carolina area with his family. In prior roles, Jirah has spent time at a VAR in both professional services and presales SE roles, and has been a virtualization and storage admin dating back to the ESX 4.0 era.Find him at .NEXT to discuss which is the superior Star Trek series - Jirah promises to remain open minded.

Aniket Daptari

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Joshua Darrin

Chief Operating Officer, Data Canopy

Luke Davis

Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Nutanix

Jeneé Davis

Integrated Launch Manager, Nutanix

Bhavik Desai

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, NCI and AOS, Nutanix

Riya Dhar

Member of Technical Staff - 3, Nutanix

Vimal Dharmavarapu

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Daniel Dislers

Principal Strategic Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

John Dodds

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Camilo Duran

Senior Manager, System Engineering, Nutanix

Debojyoti Dutta

Chief AI Officer, Nutanix

Dan Fallon

Director, Sales, Nutanix

Dan Fallon

Director, Sales, Nutanix

Dan Fallon is the Director of the Nutanix U.S. Federal Special Programs team, with over 20 years of experience serving the unique technical requirements of the Federal government. He leads a group of dedicated individuals that support the technical implementation and advisory requirements of Federal agencies and the Systems Integrators that support them. Dan’s early experience includes serving as the lead VDI architect for some of the largest multi-level virtual desktop deployments in the DoD and IC. He earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, and his master’s degree in IT from the University of Maryland Global Campus. In addition, Dan holds industry certifications from CompTIA, VMware, Citrix, and Nutanix; including VCP, multiple CCAs, the CCEE, and NCP #9.

Andre Fiano

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Chewy

Kenneth Fingerlos

Director, Global Practices - Services, Nutanix

Felipe Franciosi

Senior Director, Engineering, Nutanix

Nick Franklin

Infrastructure Engineer, John Deere

Lars E. Fuerst

Systems Analyst, ONEOK

Lars E. Fuerst

Systems Analyst, ONEOK

Lars E. Fuerst is a seasoned Systems Analyst at ONEOK, where he leads enterprise infrastructure modernization, including the migration from VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV and the implementation of container-ready platforms. His recent focus has been on designing and deploying infrastructure to support Kubernetes and OpenShift, helping drive ONEOK’s transition to containerized applications. With over 20 years of experience in UNIX/Linux environments, Lars blends deep technical expertise with strategic vision to deliver scalable, cost-effective solutions. He holds a Master of Engineering in Information Technology and brings strong proficiency in automation, hyperconverged infrastructure, and infrastructure as code.

Leah Gabbert

Global Director of Industries Solutions Marketing, Nutanix

Matt Garren

IT Automation Lead, CoLinx, LLC

Matt Garren

IT Automation Lead, CoLinx, LLC

Matt has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Clemson and a Master’s in Computer Science jointly through the College of Charleston and the Citadel. He started at CoLinx in 2013 as a Linux Systems Administrator and is currently the team lead for the IT Automation team. They have responsibility for all Linux Systems, Kubernetes, logging, messaging, build pipelines and related infrastructure. Their goal is to support their internal development team through deployment and sustaining apps while minimizing downtime using as much automation and repeatability as possible. Matt started using Kubernetes in 2017 with hand-built clusters and has been involved with their migrations to and use of hand-built clusters, kubespray clusters, kops clusters, Amazon EKS, VMWare Tanzu, and now Nutanix NKP clusters.

Sam Ghardashem

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Sam Ghardashem

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Sam is a Principal Product Manager at Nutanix for Flow Network Security, bringing nearly two decades of experience in the networking and security industry to his role. His career has spanned a diverse range of companies, from dynamic startups to established leaders like VMware and Cisco, where he has specialized in developing and managing advanced security solutions. At Nutanix, Sam leverages his extensive expertise to enhance product offerings and address the ever-evolving challenges of network security through innovative initiatives. As a speaker, he shares practical insights and valuable lessons from his broad experience, aiming to inform and educate audiences on effective cybersecurity strategies and best practices.

Kaushik Ghosh

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Rajat Ghosh

Staff Data Scientist, Nutanix

Jarian Gibson

Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Jarian Gibson

Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Jarian Gibson is a Senior Staff Solutions Architect for Solutions and Performance Engineering – End-User Computing (EUC) team and has been with Nutanix since 2018. In this role, Jarian researches best practices for running VDI and RDSH-based workloads along with related technology components, writes reference architecture and validated designs, and helps design, test, and build EUC solutions on top of the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Platform. Jarian has a strong background in end-user computing. Jarian has presented EUC-related content at various events and conferences along with being a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), co-host of the Frontline Chatter podcast, and is chair of the World of EUC community.

Deepak Goel

Senior Director, Engineering, Nutanix

Christian Goffi

Vice President, Americas Channel Sales, Nutanix

Christian Goffi

Vice President, Americas Channel Sales, Nutanix

Christian has been with Nutanix for four years and serves as Vice President of Americas Channels. Christian is responsible for the strategic direction of Nutanix’s extended ecosystem, fostering strategic relationships, developing strategic sales programs for value-added resellers (VARs), distributors, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), global system integrators (GSIs), and XSP partners. Prior to Nutanix, Christian spent five years at Juniper Networks as Head of Channels and Distribution for the Americas. Christian has also held multiple sales and leadership roles at Cyan Inc, Avaya and Nortel over his 20+ years career. Originally from Argentina, Christian lives in South Florida with his wife and three children.

Jose Gomez

Director, Technical Marketing Engineering, NKP and Cloud Native, Nutanix

Jesse Gonzalez

Staff Solution Architect - Cloud Native, Nutanix

Gaby Grau

Advisory Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Cristina Greysman

Worldwide Head of Nutanix Market Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cristina Greysman

Worldwide Head of Nutanix Market Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cristina Greysman brings over 20 years of technology leadership experience across startups and large corporations. Her expertise spans business development, strategic alliances, channel partnerships, and partner program management. After 18 years as an Amazon customer, Cristina became an employee in 2018!
Cristina joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector team, where she established the first partner community for US State and Local Governments and educational institutions on the East Coast. She later served as Americas Head of AWS for SAP Alliance and Partner Community, leading teams to migrate and modernize SAP software on AWS. Currently, she develops new market strategies as part of the global alliance with Nutanix, a hyperconverged infrastructure software provider.
Cristina actively champions women in technology and the channel including serving as the chairwoman of the Advancing Women in Technology community at CompTIA, an IT trade association. Her contributions to the technology industry and community service have earned her several distinctions: Philadelphia Business Journal's Woman of Distinction, Women We Admire's Top 50 Women Leaders of Pennsylvania, and recurring recognition in CRN's annual Women of the Channel list for her channel partner expertise.

Mayank Gupta

Director Product Marketing Management - NCM, Nutanix

Pranav Yogesh Gupta

Vice President, Engineering, Nutanix

David Gwyn

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels, Nutanix

David Gwyn

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels, Nutanix

Dave Gwyn is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels at Nutanix, managing global routes-to-market via more than 7,000 Nutanix partners. Nutanix relies on its Channels organization to drive sales, services, and effective adoption throughout the customer subscription lifecycle. Prior to joining Nutanix in 2012, he held leadership positions in sales and consulting at VMware, BEA, Plumtree, Silverstream, and Sybase. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and spent the early part of his career as a programmer, including four years on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope program. He was named one of the “Trending 40”, voted one of DC’s leading innovators, and was named one of Channel Futures’ Top 20 Cloud Channel Leaders for 2022. He lives in Potomac, Maryland with his wife and four children.

Paul Harb

Vice President, Solutions and Performance Engineering, Nutanix

Arijit Hawlader

Principal Product Manager for Solutions & Ecosystem, Nutanix

John Hayes

Senior Director, Digital Workplace Strategy and VDI, Verizon

Sampanna Hegde

Group Product Manager, Nutanix

Sampanna Hegde

Group Product Manager, Nutanix

Sampanna Hegde is a Group Product Manager at Nutanix, where he leads the strategic vision and execution for Automation and Orchestration within Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). With over 13 years of experience in enterprise software, his expertise spans billing, telecommunications, and private cloud solutions. Sampanna has been with Nutanix for over seven years, playing a key role in driving innovation and product development. Prior to Nutanix, he held impactful roles at Oracle and Intuit, contributing to enterprise-grade product advancements. He holds an MBA from the University of Georgia and brings a deep understanding of cloud automation, orchestration, and business strategy to his work.

Roy Hercules

Senior Cyber Engineer, ManTech Contractor at a Large US Federal Agency

Vincent Hetsberger

Vice President Manager-Systems Engineering, Moody's

Vincent Hetsberger

Vice President Manager-Systems Engineering, Moody's

Vincent Hetsberger is a seasoned professional currently serving as VP Mgr-Systems Engineering at Moody's with extensive experience in systems engineering. Vincent has played a pivotal role in managing and optimizing Moody's virtualization and automation operations. He is known for his collaborative approach, working closely with executives, upper management and his business partners. Vincent's expertise extends to leading projects and engagements, including most recently the Dell / Nutanix Beta program, where he has been instrumental in the deployment and functional testing of the platform. His contributions have been vital in ensuring the successful implementation and management of advanced technologies within the organization. Vincent is based in New York City and continues to drive innovation and efficiency in Moody's systems engineering initiatives.

Tony Holland

Principal Cloud Transformation Architect, Nutanix

Sven Huisman

Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Wolfgang Huse

Senior Manager, Solutions and Performance Engineering Cloud Native Nutanix

Andy Ibarra

CE Manager, Austin Energy

Bruce Jacobs

Global NKP Category Leader, Nutanix

Christophe Jauffret

Principal Solutions Architect - Cloud Native, Nutanix

Sujaikumar Jayarao

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Raghu Jha

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Dom Johnston

IT Manager, Golding Contractors

Chris Jones

Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Laura Jordana

Director, Technical Marketing, Nutanix

Elliot Kam

Senior Director Business Development Manager, Cloud Partners, Nutanix

Elliot Kam

Senior Director Business Development Manager, Cloud Partners, Nutanix

Elliot Kam is the Senior Director of Business Development for Cloud Partners at Nutanix. He is responsible for existing hyperscaler partnerships for Nutanix as well as exploring new opportunities with cloud service providers. Elliot has been at Nutanix for over nine years and worked in Nutanix PreSales Engineering and Global System Integrator organizations prior to his current position.Before joining Nutanix, Elliot had technical, management, and business development roles at System Integrators in both the US private and public sectors. Elliot began his career as a systems administrator before specializing in computer networking and later, virtualization. While not currently active, Elliot has previously held CISSP, CCNP, PMP, and other certifications.

Anya Kane

Senior Director Solutions Strategy and Transformation, Nutanix

Krishna Chakra Karanam

Senior Product Manager, Nutanix

Parag Karnik

Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Platforms, Nutanix

Parag Karnik

Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Platforms, Nutanix

Parag Karnik is the CTO of Enterprise Platforms at Nutanix, where he leverages his extensive industry experience to inform strategy and align positioning within major IT organizations. He brings over 30 years of engineering and operational leadership in global enterprises, with deep expertise in technology products, platforms, and capabilities across highly regulated industries, including Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Financial Services.Prior to Nutanix, Mr. Karnik served as Managing Director at Credit Suisse, leading infrastructure services, platform engineering, and architecture as a centralized global shared service. He spearheaded a multi-year digital transformation program focused on value acceleration and risk control framework modernization. Before Credit Suisse, he was Vice President at Johnson & Johnson, leading global hosting and data platform services across all business lines. In this role, he designed and implemented an enterprise-level hybrid multi-cloud and data strategy, delivering a hybrid AI/ML platform, a multi-region S/4 HANA platform, Software Deﬁned Data Center and edge modernization for R&D labs, manufacturing and warehouses.Mr. Karnik's career began as a developer, progressing through increasingly senior roles at Express Scripts/Medco over 21 years, culminating in leadership of large global teams. During this time, he was instrumental in driving digital transformation, notably the $26B merger of Medco and Express Scripts Specialty Pharmacy business.Beyond delivering business value at these organizations, Mr. Karnik has a proven track record of transforming global infrastructure engineering and operations organizations into agile, future-ready entities, with a focus on developer and data scientist experience. His background includes a strong focus on business value and adaptability, complemented by a startup mindset. He currently advises EsperHealth, a healthcare AI startup.He is a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, engineers, architects, and operations teams aligning programs, objectives and execution with strategic priorities, focused on delivering business value.

Paul Kofoid

Senior Consultant - NetSec Cloud and Virtualization, Palo Alto Networks

Jon Kohler

Principal Engineer, Nutanix

Swapna Kotagiri

Principal Product Manager for Solutions & Ecosystem, Microsoft

Harsha Kotikela

Senior Director of Product and Solutions Marketing, Nutanix

Artur Krzywdzinski

Director, Solutions Engineering, Nutanix

Gautam Kulkarni

Group Product Manager, Nutanix

Ratan Kumar

Director Product Management, Nutanix

Nimal Kunnath

Technical Marketing Engineer, NKP and Cloud Native, Nutanix

Nimal Kunnath

Technical Marketing Engineer, NKP and Cloud Native, Nutanix

Nimal Kunnath is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix, specializing in the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and its ecosystem of solutions. He helps organizations adopt modern infrastructure and data services for Kubernetes through Nutanix’s comprehensive portfolio and strategic partnerships. Nimal shares his knowledge at various events globally, contributing to discussions on Kubernetes and cloud native technologies. He creates valuable technical resources, including test drives, reference architectures, and best practice guides, designed to empower sales teams, customers, and the broader community. With a strong background in virtualization, containerization, storage, and distributed systems from his roles at Nutanix and Cisco, he combines technical expertise with practical insights to support successful cloud native initiatives.

Derrick Ladd

Principal Architect, Duke Health

Jason Langone

Senior Director, Global AI Business Development, Nutanix

Sam Larson

Principal Technologist, Expedient

Jeremy Launier

Senior Principal Product Manager II, Nutanix

Dwayne Lessner

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Gary Little

Principal Performance Engineer, Nutanix

Steve Lohr

Founder & CEO, Evolve Cloud Services

Mark Longo

Senior Manager, Business Development Cloud and Database, Nutanix

Mark Longo

Senior Manager, Business Development Cloud and Database, Nutanix

Mark is a seasoned business development professional in the enterprise software industry, actively engaged with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and AWS. He focuses on expanding partnerships and collaborations with channel partners, specifically VARs and GSIs, to help them build and scale their NC2 on AWS cloud practices. Committed to driving cloud adoption, Mark works to enable partners to deliver innovative solutions that accelerate customer transitions to the cloud. His efforts are focused on increasing revenue opportunities for both partners and clients, ensuring that businesses can leverage the full potential of cloud technology while driving growth and enhancing customer value. Mark’s expertise in strategic alliances positions him as a key player in shaping the future of cloud adoption and practice development.

Leandro Lopes

Director, Systems Engineering, Nutanix

Jayakrishna Mada

Senior Product Manager, Cisco

Aarthi Mahesh

Product and Solutions Marketing Specialist, Nutanix

Marty Martin

Director, Process Control Technology, Air Liquide

Marty Martin

Director, Process Control Technology, Air Liquide

Marty is an international technical leader in the field of control system automation and advanced process control for Air Liquide. He is a regular presenter at control industry forums and conferences, covering automation cybersecurity and process control topics. He has spent the past 38 years in the process control and automation field providing unique and innovative solutions for the air separation, biotech (applying batch and advanced control solutions for mammalian cell culture bioreactors), and specialty and commodity chemical industry sectors. His current passion is helping to make the world of virtualization common place in the industrial process control area. He was honored by Smart Industry as one of the top 50 Digital Innovators for 2017.

Steve McElfatrick

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Mike McGhee

Director Technical Marketing Management - NC2, NUS, NDB, Nutanix

Igor Menezes

Senior Systems Engineer, Nutanix

Marlon Menezes

Advisory Systems Engineer - Commercial, Nutanix

Austin Miller

Chief Technology Officer, Maryland Transit Administration

Austin Miller

Chief Technology Officer, Maryland Transit Administration

Austin Miller is the Chief Technology Officer for the nation's 12th largest transit agency (MDOT Maryland Transit Administration). He is an integral part of the executive leadership and principal technical expert for MDOT MTA's $900 million operating and 6-year capital budget of over $3 billion. With an Information Technology Department staff of 100 supporting the agency's 3,500 employees, he oversees a $10 million operating budget and a $15+ million capital budget. He is responsible for the design and implementation of technology for the Purple Line, a new, 16-mile light rail line outside of Washington, D.C., the nation's most significant transit public-private partnership. In 2018, Austin was recognized as a top transit professional in Mass Transit Magazine’s 40 under 40. He holds a bachelor's in business management and an Associate of Applied Science in Electronics, Computers, and Telecommunication Technology. Also, Austin is a graduate of the competitive programs Leadership Baltimore County and Leadership Maryland.

Sonali Mishra

Senior Product Manager, Nutanix

Rilwan Musa

Lead - Database Services, Enterprise Data Strategy & Governance, TDECU

Rilwan Musa

Lead - Database Services, Enterprise Data Strategy & Governance, TDECU

Rilwan Musa is a data aficionado with over 15+ years of experience in data architecture and a deep dive into machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI); He has honed his expertise in creating innovative data solutions. Recently, he has been consulting in the financial sector, optimizing data strategies, and implementing AI-driven decision-making tools. As a startup entrepreneur, he drives technological innovation and create impactful solutions. Additionally, he is passionate about helping people transition into the IT field, providing training, guidance, and support to those seeking to build successful careers in technology.

Manoj Naik

Distinguished Engineer, Nutanix

Saji Nair

Principal Engineer, Nutanix

Chris Nelson

Principal Portfolio Architect, Nutanix

Bill O'Donnell

Senior Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Sean O'Dowd

Head of Global Financial Services Strategy & Solutions, Nutanix

Sean O'Dowd

Head of Global Financial Services Strategy & Solutions, Nutanix

Sean O'Dowd leads Global Financial Services Solutions and Strategy for Nutanix, driving industry go-to-market, strategic partnerships, and customer adoption of cloud and AI technologies.Previously, Sean held senior roles at Proofpoint, MapR (HPE), and Teradata, leading initiatives in AI/ML, analytics, big data, security, compliance, and cloud transformation. Earlier in his career, he worked in capital markets and asset management as a portfolio manager, equity researcher, and trader at IDC, State Street, and alternative investment funds.An expert in financial services market structure, regulation, and technology innovation, Sean's insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Institutional Investor, and more.

Kelly Olivier

Systems Architect, Nutanix

Caleb Ondrusek

Senior Vice President IT Operations, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

Caleb Ondrusek

Senior Vice President IT Operations, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

Caleb Ondrusek is a results-driven technology executive with a strong focus on IT strategy, data leadership, and enterprise transformation. As SVP of IT Operations at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp, he leads strategic initiatives that modernize infrastructure, unify and unlock enterprise data, and drive innovation across critical business functions. With nearly two decades of experience across financial services and healthcare, Caleb has successfully built and mentored high-performing teams, led large-scale cloud and data platform migrations, and delivered technology solutions that improve efficiency, compliance, and decision-making.Known for his ability to bridge the gap between technical execution and strategic vision, Caleb brings a thoughtful, business-aligned approach to solving complex challenges. His leadership style emphasizes collaboration, accountability, and long-term value creation, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable outcomes and support organizational growth.

Tunde Oni-Daniel

Head of Technology Operations and Engineering, OneMain Financial

Tunde Oni-Daniel

Head of Technology Operations and Engineering, OneMain Financial

Tunde is currently the Head of Technology Operations and Engineering at OneMain Financial. Before this, he held the role of VP/SMD Head of Cyber Technology at OneMain Financial from January 2020 to July 2022. Previously, Tunde was the Global Head of IT Security Engineering at Deutsche Bank, where he harmonized business needs with technical security solutions and acted as the primary advocate for cybersecurity engineering in a highly regulated industry.Prior to that, Tunde served as the Director of Information Security (CISO) at Perdue Farms Inc. With extensive experience in leading information technology, information security, and cybersecurity in global enterprises, Tunde now oversees OneMain's Technology operations which includes Cyber Technologies. His responsibilities include managing the organization's first-line cybersecurity functions, such as security architecture, engineering, security operations, identity and access management, as well as OneMain's infrastructure, network, and production operations. Tunde ensures that OneMain deploys the necessary technologies and processes to detect and respond effectively to cybersecurity risks.

William Parks

Senior Product Marketing Manager - AHV, Nutanix

Ty Peavey

Director of Infrastructure Services, Dartmouth College

Rahul Phadke

Director of Product Management, F5

Marsha Pierce

Global NDB Category Leader, Nutanix

Gopal Pingali

Managing Director, Global Hybrid Cloud Leader, Accenture

Gopal Pingali

Managing Director, Global Hybrid Cloud Leader, Accenture

Gopal Pingali is a seasoned technology and innovation executive with extensive experience in in driving digital transformation across multiple industries with Cloud, AI, and IT services. He is currently the Global Managing Director and CTO for Hybrid and Private Cloud at Accenture guiding customers in their Cloud transformational journey. Previously, he held leadership roles at IBM, including VP of Cloud Transformation and VP of Global Technology Services Labs.Over his career, Gopal pioneered innovations in many areas including Multicloud Management, Intelligent Automation, Continuous Security, Real-time Video Tracking Systems, Autonomous Vehicles, and Nanotechnology and has filed over 60 patents. Gopal holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in AI from the University of Michigan.

Steve Pitcher

Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Architect, Close Brothers

Sean Poeschl

Senior Portfolio Specialist – NC2, Nutanix

Chris Porter

Advisory Solutions Architect, Hybrid Multicloud, Nutanix

Chris Porter

Advisory Solutions Architect, Hybrid Multicloud, Nutanix

Chris Porter is an Advisory Solutions Architect at Nutanix, specialising in hybrid cloud. He helps customers and partners use Nutanix technologies to integrate with the public cloud, helping them adopt AWS and Azure for use cases such as rapid migrations, burst capacity, and elastic disaster recovery. In his 25 plus years of industry experience, he has spent countless hours designing, implementing, testing and invoking disaster recovery solutions, as well as architecting pioneering uses of the public cloud for expedited recovery. Prior to his time at Nutanix, Chris was a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, and before that spent 17 years working in financial services as an infrastructure architect. He is certified in Nutanix, AWS, Azure and VMware, including VMware's highest certification level, VCDX (#281).

Ramya Prabhakar

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Lakshana Rajendran

Technical Marketing Engineer, NCM, Nutanix

Mark Rein

Chief Technology and Security Officer, Virginia Retirement System

Mark Rein

Chief Technology and Security Officer, Virginia Retirement System

Mark Rein is a decisive leader with clear business and technology vision, leveraging extensive experience in both public and private sectors to achieve organizational excellence. As an accomplished technology strategist, Mark has demonstrated leadership and technical expertise, cultivating positive relationships to achieve organizational goals. With a background in international and domestic information technology, healthcare, finance, and telecommunications, Mark has successfully aligned business and technology to drive innovation and efficiency.He is currently serving as the Chief Technology and Security Officer with Virginia Retirement System. Previously, he held key positions as VP, Chief Information Officer at the International Development Finance Corporation, and Chief Information Officer at the National Institutes of Health. He has held key technology roles with healthcare systems in the Washington, DC and Baltimore areas. Mark thrived in the venture capital communities in Europe and Asia with various telecommunications startups.Mark led digital business transformations, directed cybersecurity initiatives, and implemented innovative technology solutions to support diverse customer missions. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from Bellevue University, a Certified ScrumMaster and a Disney Leadership Graduate. Mark served on the technical advisory boards of Palo Alto Networks, Airespace and Consentry Networks.

Ashley Reyes

Senior Global Product Manager, Infrastructure Managed Services, Rockwell Automation

Robbi Richmond

Advisory Portfolio Specialist - NDB, Nutanix

Joe Rizkallah

Senior Product Manager, Nutanix

Jeremy Ross

Global NC2 Category Leader, Nutanix

Kostadis Roussos

Distinguished Engineer, Nutanix

Kostadis Roussos

Distinguished Engineer, Nutanix

Currently, Kostadis is a Distinguished Engineer, with a broad responsibility for the management and control planes in particular how Nutanix scales them to the global enterprise. He joined Nutanix in January of 2025. His goal at .NEXT is to learn what the challenges customers are facing, and how he can help them.

In the past decade, he was Principal Engineer/Multi-Cloud Architect and vCenter Lead Architect at VMware. He identified opportunities for VMware in Edge computing and proposed architectural changes to core products. Key initiatives include integrating Kubernetes into vSphere (Supervisor Project), leading hybrid cloud efforts for vCenter, and addressing critical data integrity issues. Kostadis also began rebuilding the VCF product during the COVID-19 pandemic and mentored multiple individuals to senior roles.

Prior to VMware, he held leadership roles at Juniper Networks, Zynga, and NetApp. At Zynga, they re-architected backend systems and led DevOps. At NetApp, led the design of storage management software and developed the SnapManager for VMware product.

Jennifer Rowland

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Arjoyita Roy

Senior Product and Solutions Marketing Manager, Nutanix

Ellie Ruano

Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Nutanix

Ranjit Sawant

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Ranjit Sawant

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Ranjit Sawant is the Director of Product Management at Nutanix, responsible for the Prism Central and Nutanix Central products. He has more than 20 years of successful product launches in variety of domains: cloud services, small business, social, developer services, education etc. Before joining Nutanix, Ranjit was a Group Product Manager at VMware (acquired by Broadcom) where he was responsible for VCF ™. Prior to VMware, he was Product lead at CA Technologies (acquired by Broadcom). Before that, Ranjit has been a founder at a mobile social networking startup and has held senior product and engineering roles at Intuit, Microsoft and Siemens Communications. Ranjit received his MBA from UNC Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler Business School), and holds a bachelor's in electronics and communication engineering from Karnataka University in India.

Christian Schmidt

Senior Manager, Infrastructure & IT Service Delivery, B&G Foods, Inc.

Anindo Sengupta

Vice President, Product Management, Nutanix

Parham Shabaniani

Service Provider Solution Architect, Nutanix

Gustavo Sosa

Advisory Systems Engineer, Nutanix

David Stein

Enterprise Architect, Spencer Gifts

Cameron Stockwell

Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Yannick Struyf

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

David Teague

Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Joao Pereira Teixeira

Principal Global Practice Lead - Enterprise Architecture, Nutanix

Rishi Thaper

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Rishi Thaper

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Introducing Rishi Thaper, a seasoned product manager with over 19 years of extensive expertise in Data Protection, Information Governance, User Behavior Analytics, and File Analytics. With a rich background in combating cyber threats, Rishi brings a wealth of experience to the forefront of discussions on Ransomware and other threats.Having previously served pivotal roles at industry giants Symantec and Veritas, Rishi has been at the forefront of driving innovative solutions to combat evolving cyber threats and compliance requirements. Notably, he is spearheading the Go-to-Market strategy for Data Lens, a ground-breaking platform empowering organisations to harness the power of data for informed decision-making.Rishi holds an Executive MBA from the Indian Institute of Management focusing on strategy and marketing, complemented by a master's degree in computer science from Pune University, offering a unique blend of technical acumen and strategic vision. This diverse skill set enables him to navigate the complex intersection of technology, security, and business with ease.With a passion for staying ahead of the curve in cybersecurity trends and a commitment to driving impactful change, Rishi is poised to deliver invaluable insights and perspectives at the conference. Attendees can expect to gain profound insights into mitigating ransomware threats, leveraging advanced analytics, and fortifying data protection strategies in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Jeroen Tielen

Trainer, Consultant, Troubleshooter, Architect, Tielen Consultancy BV

Raghav Tulshibagwale

Senior Technical Manager, Nutanix

Mike Umphreys

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix

Ashwini Vasanth

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Venu Vuppalapati

Senior Staff Global Practice Lead – Database, Nutanix

Sherry Walshak

Director, Public Sector Industry Solutions Marketing, Nutanix

Oscar Wahlberg

Senior Director, Product Management, Nutanix

Marc Waldrop

Principal Product Manager, Nutanix

Eric Walters

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, NCI & Security, Nutanix

Michael Webster

Principal Solutions Architect - Engineering, Nutanix

John Wei

Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Integreon

John Wei

Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Integreon

John is an accomplished technology and business leader, as well as a C-suite executive. He has a proven track record of delivering transformational results in highly regulated industries and is known for his ability to build strong teams and relationships. John has extensive leadership experience in growth strategy, P/L accountability, digital transformation, architecture, and operations. His technical expertise includes Al/ML, Generative AI, cloud, cyber security, and regulatory compliance. He has worked in the banking, insurance, and commercial technology and software product industries.
Currently, John is the EVP and CTO at Integreon, a global leader in AI/Generative AI-enabled legal, compliance, creative, and business solutions. Integreon is owned by Eagle Tree Private Equity and has 3,500 employees. Reporting to the CEO, John leads the CIO, CISO, and Product Engineering teams to advance AI/Gen AI solutions to transform our services offerings and delivery capabilities.
Before Integreon, John was the CTO and SVP of Comerica Bank, which is one of the top 20 banks in the United States. In this role, he was responsible for enterprise-wide technology architecture, infrastructure, operations, transformation, innovation, and technology compliance. Prior to that, John served as CTO and Managing Director for a $9B+ insurance, health, and software technology firm, Emergent Holdings. There, he led cloud transformation, M&A integration, and the launching of technology platforms for joint ventures, along with regulatory and compliance responsibilities. Before Emergent, John was the CTO, Industry Leader, and Distinguished Technologist for DXC Technology and Hewlett Packard (HP), where he headed client executive partnerships, cloud strategy, and solutions development and delivery.
John is a Board Director at the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce (APACC), a member of the IBM Financial Services Cloud Council, and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from the University of Detroit Mercy and has completed undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin. John is also a Harvard Business School alumni and graduate of the PLDA program.

Greg White

Senior Director, Strategic Marketing, Nutanix

Kelly Willis

Solutions Architect, Nutanix

Larry Witte III

Vice President - IT Operations, ADS | USMED Supply

Larry Witte III

Vice President - IT Operations, ADS | USMED Supply

Larry Witte is an accomplished professional with extensive expertise within the technology and healthcare sectors. His passion and dedication are focused on enhancing customer experiences through strategic planning, development, and collaborative execution aimed at driving Customer Service Excellence. Mr. Witte's distinguished career includes his current role as Vice President of IT Operations with ADS | USMED Supply, along with senior leadership roles across various industries, such as healthcare transportation, vision care, orthotics, and prosthetics. He brings substantial experience in IT Operations, encompassing infrastructure management, data security, technical support, and operations. His adept application of ITIL best practices aligns seamlessly with IT modernization and digital transformation initiatives. His robust foundational experience includes critical data center operations within logistics and healthcare environments, underscoring his respected status as a leader in the field.

Craig Wuerzberger

IT Manager – Infrastructure Services & Data Center Operations, Sub-Zero Group, Inc.

Craig Wuerzberger

IT Manager – Infrastructure Services & Data Center Operations, Sub-Zero Group, Inc.

Craig Wuerzberger has dedicated the past 25 years to Sub-Zero Group, Inc., a privately held company based in Madison, WI, renowned for manufacturing luxury appliances. Throughout his career, Craig has specialized in various areas including storage, backup, virtualization, security, server administration, data center administration, directory services, and IT Architecture. In the past two years, Craig has taken over the management of the IT infrastructure team, which includes the network, systems, and cloud engineering teams as well as all data center operations for the company. Craig holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh and holds Foundations of Management and Advanced Management and Leadership certificates from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is actively involved in several Wisconsin user groups focused on server and storage administration, virtualization, and Enterprise Architecture. In addition to his professional achievements, Craig is an accomplished singer and currently performs with the Madison Symphony Chorus at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, WI.

Eric Zacher

Infrastructure Engineer, John Deere

Jae Zayed

Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Southwest General Health Center, Ohio

Jae Zayed

Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Southwest General Health Center, Ohio

Jae Zayed is a dynamic technology executive known for driving innovation at the intersection of healthcare and information systems. Jae specializes in building digital ecosystems that improve clinical outcomes, empower care teams, and elevate the patient experience.
Drawing on a global career spanning nearly two decades, Jae has led transformative programs in diverse healthcare environments, including academic medical centers, large hospital networks, government health systems, and community hospitals. His expertise includes strategic IT planning, transformation, decision support, and enterprise system optimization.
He envisions a future where healthcare is driven even more by bold innovation, intelligent systems, and an AI-empowered workforce, enabling clinicians, caregivers, and administrators to deliver extraordinary care.
Outside the office, Jae is a passionate advocate for mentoring the next generation of technology leaders and enjoys discovering new places with his family.

David Zoerb

Staff Solutions Architect, Nutanix