Cohesity, one of the pioneers of hyperconverged secondary storage, announced it has added two important new team members with deep industry experience – former NetApp President Rob Salmon, and former VMware President and Chief Operations Officer Carl Eschenbach.
Salmon will serve as Cohesity’s first president and chief operating officer, overseeing sales, marketing, and support divisions. Eschenbach, now a partner with Sequoia Capital, will join the company’s board.
Salmon previously worked as president and head of go-to-market operations for the data storage giant NetApp, and was responsible for all customer-facing functions. Before NetApp, he worked in sales roles at Sun Microsystems and Data General Corporation. He serves on the board of Special Olympics Northern California, and as an advisor to the Asian American Donor Program (AADP) for the National Bone Marrow Registry.
Eschenbach joins Bill Coughran in representing early investor Sequoia on the board. At Sequoia, Eschenbach focuses on infrastructure and SaaS and provides operating expertise to the firm’s portfolio companies. As the president and chief operations officer of VMware, he helped architect the company’s go-to-market strategy and increase its revenue from $31 million to more than $6 billion. He has also served as vice president of North America Sales at Inktomi, and held various sales leadership positions with 3Com, EMC, and Lucent Technologies.
“Rob and Carl will add important insight and guidance to Cohesity’s leadership team based on their impressive tenures working with two of the most successful data storage and management companies in the world,” said Mohit Aron, chief executive officer and founder, Cohesity. “Having the privilege to bring on such respected executives is a testament to the transformative value of Cohesity’s innovations, and we look forward to rapidly expanding on our early success.”
Salmon earned his B.S. in computer science from Chico State University.