Vasu Murthy SVP and Chief Product Officer, Cohesity

Cohesity, Inc. appointed Vasu Murthy as SVP and chief product officer.

He is a veteran with over 25 years of experience building enterprise software at scale. He has successfully led software launches at companies ranging from day-zero start-ups to large, global brands, with strengths in driving rapid growth and managing complex multi-product scaling efforts. He will bring this experience in data protection, security, and analytics to further its industry-leading AI-powered data security portfolio.

He joined from Rubrik, where he was VP of products and was responsible for the company’s core product, platform, and technology partnerships. He helped grow Rubrik’s ARR tenfold over 6x years to IPO while navigating transformation across 3 fronts: software to subscription, on-prem to cloud, and backup to data security.

Prior to Rubrik, he was VP of products for the analytics platform at Oracle, launching several $100 million+ products while driving market-leading innovation and cloud transformation. He joined via its acquisition of DataScaler, an in-memory database company he co-founded. He is an IIT Kharagpur graduate based in the Bay Area.

“Vasu’s strong experience supporting organizations through significant growth and transformational change with a customer-first mindset, as well as his deep domain expertise, made him the perfect fit for Cohesity,” said Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO. “Vasu has consistently delivered exceptional results in his past experiences, shaping product portfolios to meet customer needs while driving business evolution and transformation. His data protection, security, and analytics expertise will help us further extend our innovations as we enter a new era of Cohesity in the coming years.”

“Cohesity has taken an aggressive and innovative approach to leveraging AI to strengthen the security of its platform and offer customers new insight into their business data. And combining Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business will only bring more resources to develop new products at scale, something I’m deeply excited about,” said Murthy. “Cohesity has a differentiated vision and platform that has the potential to transform the industry completely. As we scale our R&D investments and build best-in-class offerings to support global customers, I look forward to partnering with the team to make a bigger impact. I’m thrilled to join Cohesity in their journey as we enter the next growth phase.”