Tarkan Maner Joins Nutanix as Chief Commercial Officer
November 18 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Executive Brings Over 25 Years of Industry
Experience and a Deep Commitment to the Saying “Partners Are
Customers”
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing,
today announced that it has appointed Tarkan Maner as Chief
Commercial Officer, where he will lead Nutanix’s global business
development and corporate development efforts, with a focus on
strategic partnerships, alliances, system integrators, and service
providers.
“Nutanix’s DNA is rooted in disruptive innovation on behalf of
its customers. I am delighted to partner with Dheeraj and the
executive team to accelerate Nutanix’s position as a leader in
enterprise cloud computing,” said Maner. “Nutanix has accomplished
so much over the past ten years, but there’s so much potential to
go even further. I am excited to charge ahead and play a critical
role in helping realize Nutanix’s vision of making computing
invisible, anywhere.”
Maner’s responsibilities will 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: End User Computing (Xi
Frame), Database-as-a-Service (Era), DR-as-a-Service (Xi Leap), Xi
Partner Network (XPN), and Solutions Engineering.
Maner brings more than 25 years of experience as an executive at
disruptive technology companies in the IT infrastructure space.
Most recently, 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. Maner served on the boards of several
organizations including Teradici, CloudCheckr, Wheels, and leading
non-profit organizations in Silicon Valley.
“Tarkan brings an entrepreneurial mindset and an acute awareness
of the computing landscape to lead Nutanix in its second decade,”
said Dheeraj Pandey, Chairman, Founder and CEO at Nutanix. “His
authentic leadership style, a clear bias for action, and a broad
industry network have helped him create high-energy companies, as
I’ve observed him from afar. Given his deep sense of commitment to
company-building, I look forward to this new partnership to build
Nutanix into a hybrid cloud powerhouse.”
About Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged
infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that
IT can focus on the applications and services that power their
business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility
across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run
any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost
of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver
a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application
owners a true cloud-like experience. Learn more at www.nutanix.com
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