
VMware’s Biggest Recent Hires And Departures
As VMware continues to search for a new CEO, several of the company’s top leaders and longtime executives have departed VMware over the past few months.
Many of these executives were a staple inside VMware for over a decade and were leading key market segments such as cloud and 5G. However, the Palo Alto, Calf. -based virtualization and software superstar has been able to hire some serious talent recently hailing from the likes of Google Cloud and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
VMware generated a total of $11.8 billion in total revenue during its fiscal year 2021, which ended last month, representing a 9 percent sales jump annually. The hybrid cloud and Kubernetes standout is transforming itself to make Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and subscription sales a larger part of its overall revenue. SaaS and subscription sales were up a whopping 38 percent in fiscal year 2021 at $2.6 billion.
As VMware shakes up its executive bench, CRN breaks down the most significant VMware executives who recently left as well as some of the company’s most important new hires.