Cloud infrastructure
10 VMware operations leaders
These ten people hold or have held operations leadership roles at VMware, from a chief operating officer and operations vice presidents to directors of revenue, professional services and business operations. A reader can learn how operations leaders build and run their teams in cloud infrastructure companies.
Professionals to explore
01—10Christopher Dials
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Global Go-to Market Operations · VMware
Former Vice President Global Go-to Market Operations at VMware (2015–2019); the profile says the role led global GTM operations during a period of significant transformation and growth, including helping drive a large merger integration. Vice President, Global GTM Operations & Field Enablement at Zoom since 2025, and former Vice President Global Go-to Market Operations at Zendesk (2021–2025).
Joe Lee
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, GTM & Commercialization Strategy and Business Operations · VMware
Vice President, GTM & Commercialization Strategy and Business Operations at VMware since 2013; the profile describes leading a team of business and pricing strategists, cloud technologists and operations execution professionals. Former Vice President, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, HP Cloud at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2011–2013).
Julie Oh
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Strategy Planning and Operations · VMware
Former Senior Director, Strategy Planning and Operations at VMware (2023–2024), in the Office of CEO for Product and Cloud Services, responsible for strategy planning, business operations, employee engagement and communication according to the profile. Former Director, Strategy Planning and Operations rows at VMware (2021–2022 and 2022–2023). Senior Director, Chief of Staff at Equinix since 2025.
Kristen Jenkins
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Revenue Operations · VMware
Senior Director, Revenue Operations at VMware since July 2022; the profile describes leading a global team and redesigning system functionality and close procedures to align to updated corporate policies. Former Director, Revenue Operations (2012–2022) and Manager - Senior Manager, Revenue Operations (2004–2012) at VMware.
Louise Shaw
LinkedInExperience: Director, Worldwide Professional Services Operations · VMware
Director, Worldwide Professional Services Operations at VMware since July 2023; the profile says the role supports the Worldwide Professional Services SVP and is responsible for AMER, APJ, EMEA and centralised consulting centre professional services operations. Former Director, EMEA Professional Services Operations at VMware (2020–2023).
Rajiv Ramaswami
LinkedInExperience: COO, Products and Cloud Services · VMware
Former COO, Products and Cloud Services at VMware (2016–2020), a role the profile describes as co-leading all the business units developing products, cloud services and cloud operations for VMware. Former EVP/GM, Networking & Security at VMware (2016). President and CEO of Nutanix since December 2020.
Scott Magrath
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Business Operations and SaaS Transformation · VMware
Vice President of Business Operations and SaaS Transformation at VMware since December 2017, according to the listing, which also shows a vice president of Operations row at Socialcast since 2011 with no end date. Based in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Sonali Naik Pandit
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Business Strategy, Planning and Operations Leader in Office of the CEO · VMware
Sr. Director, Business Strategy, Planning and Operations Leader in Office of the CEO at VMware since December 2020, per the listing. Former Director, Business Transformation and Strategic Operations at VMware (2016–2020). The listing also shows Head of Engineering Services and Strategic Operations, VMware Cloud Foundation at Broadcom since November 2023.
Thomas George
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Operations · VMware
Former Vice President, Operations at VMware (2015–2019), based in Singapore according to the profile. Former Sr. Director, Worldwide Operations (2012–2015) in Bengaluru and Director, Sales Operations (2007–2012) at VMware, and former Director, India Operations at Hyperion Solutions (2006–2007).
Vyjayanthi Kuchibhatla
LinkedInExperience: Director of Operations, Storage and Availability · VMware
Director of Operations, Storage and Availability at VMware since July 2020, a Director-level role in the Operations department. Former Director of Product Operations, Lodging Partner Services, Expedia Group at Expedia (2018–2020) and former Head of Product Operations, IoT Platform Products at Cisco (2017–2018).
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Match the person's area to your question, since go-to-market and business operations leaders see different problems than revenue, professional services or product unit operations leaders. Check each person's dates so you know whether their VMware experience is current or from an earlier period.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a software company organize go-to-market operations across sales, partners and regions?
- 02What does a strong operating cadence look like for a large product business group?
- 03How do you keep revenue operations and close processes stable through a major acquisition or reorganization?
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