1. Tarkan Maner
Chief Commercial Officer
Fiscal 2020 Total Compensation: $16,404,489
Nutanix hired Tarkan Maner as its new chief commercial officer in November 2019, tasked with leading the company’s global business and corporate development with a focus on partnerships, system integrators and service providers. He is also responsible for leading Nutanix’s hybrid cloud strategy and product teams including AHV, software-defined networking and cloud services.
Maner previously served as chairman and CEO for Nexenta Systems, one of the groundbreaking developers of software-defined storage technology, which was acquired last year by DataDirect Networks (DDN). Prior to Nexenta, he was president and CEO of virtual desktop computing pioneer Wyse Technology that Dell bought in 2012.
When he was hired in November, Maner’s base salary was initially set at $450,000. With the voluntary COVID-19 related salary pay reduction, Maner received a total of $299,489 for his salary in fiscal year 2020. Maner generated a total of $15,955,000 in stock awards in fiscal year 2020. Additionally, Maner received a $150,000 bonus during fiscal year 2020, bringing his total compensation to roughly $16.4 million.
Stock compensation included in the proxy statement for Maner are ratable over four years provided he remains with Nutanix.
