VMware makes new appointments to serve as new Senior VPs

VMware has appointed Shekar Ayyar and Sanjay Mirchandani to serve as corporate senior vice-presidents, effective immediately.  Both will report to VMware’s President & Chief Operating Officer, Carl Eschenbach.

Ayyar joined VMware in June 2007 and leads the company’s strategic and corporate development efforts. In this role, Ayyar is responsible for aligning strategy and long-term planning across VMware businesses as well as managing the company's mergers and acquisitions, and strategic investments. Under his leadership, the company has executed on over 30 acquisition and investment transactions, including Nicira and Airwatch, both of which are key ingredients to VMware’s strategy. Prior to joining VMware, Ayyar held senior roles at BindView, Instantis and Lucent, spanning product management, marketing and business development, and was also a consultant with McKinsey. With his new appointment, Ayyar will also lead the development of a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) vertical market team within VMware. As the pioneer in virtualization, VMware is engaging with CTOs and CIOs to deliver a program designed to help the telecommunications industry accelerate innovation and launch new services faster, easier and with less expense through virtualization of telecommunications core networks and network functions. Mirchandani joined VMware in October 2013 and leads the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, bringing more than 25 years of international business, IT and consultancy experience to the company. He is responsible for driving growth and developing strategic business plans and relationships across APJ. Prior to joining VMware, Sanjay spent seven years at EMC, where he was most recently EVP of Global Enterprise Services. Also at EMC, he was CIO of the company and COO of their Global Centres of Excellence. He has also held senior positions at Microsoft.