Palo Alto, Ca., USA - March 2, 2016, Palo Alto, Ca., USA - VMware, Inc., a software company, announced the appointment of Maurizio Carli to executive vice president, worldwide sales.
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Mr. Carli will be responsible for Americas, APJ and EMEA as well as pre-and post-sales engineering, and all worldwide channels.
Mr. Carli most recently led VMware's Americas region overseeing strategic planning, business operations and the management of key functions including sales, channels, services and field marketing.
Prior to the Americas role, Mr. Carli spent seven successful years leading the VMware EMEA region. He also spent five years at Business Objects as senior vice president and general manager, EMEA, and 19 years at IBM.
Carl Eschenbach, president and chief operating officer, has resigned from his operational role to pursue a new career opportunity.
Mr. Eschenbach will continue formally as strategic advisor to CEO Pat Gelsinger, the VMware Board of Directors and the executive team.
Mr. Eschenbach's current responsibilities will be assumed by other members of VMware's leadership team:
Peter McKay will lead the Americas field organization moving forward.
Mr. McKay most recently led the Americas Enterprise Segment and previously was COO for the Americas. He joined VMware as part of the Desktone acquisition in 2013.
Ray O'Farrell has been promoted to executive vice president and will be expanding his role as chief technology officer and chief development officer to include responsibility for VMware's Global Services and Customer Advocacy.
Mr. Farrell has enjoyed a distinguished career as an engineer and software developer, including leadership positions with Mentor Graphics and Improv Systems.
He joined VMware in 2003 and has led VMware engineering for many years, primarily focused on cloud infrastructure and VMware's software-defined data center portfolio.
Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, will expand his role to also lead the company's worldwide marketing and communications functions. ■