Wednesday Aug 24, 2022

Ep. 12 - ’A lot of times people are trying to solve a problem that isn’t a problem,’ warns Rajiv Ramaswami – Great Business Minds

Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure.

Great Business Minds is brought to you in partnership with Portman Partners, the premier executive search firm for the digital infrastructure industry.

This week we are joined by cricket and tennis player Rajiv Ramaswami, who is also an accomplished Indian entrepreneur and chief executive of American cloud computing company Nutanix, a role he took on during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

He joined Nutanix from VMware, where he served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services.

Prior to this role, Rajiv led VMware’s Networking and Security business, one of the fastest-growing units in the company, as executive vice president and general manager.

Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom, where he established Broadcom as a leader in data center, enterprise, and carrier networking.

In his prior General Manager roles at Cisco, he led multibillion-dollar product lines in switching, data center and storage, and optical networking.

Earlier in his career, he held various leadership positions at Nortel, Tellabs, and IBM.

Rajiv earned his BTech in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and his Master’s and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California in Berkeley.

He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and holds 36 patents, mostly in optical networking, and joins GBM from his home in the Sunny State.

Here at the GBM podcast, we hope you enjoy this episode and do leave us a review and share it with your contacts. We invite you back again for the next episode with another big name in the digital infrastructure space.

If you want to get more from the definitive podcast for the business of digital infrastructure, make sure you subscribe to Great Business Minds.

See you soon!

///////////////////////

This episode features our commercial partner Portman Partners, the leading executive search firm working exclusively in the digital infrastructure sector. Visit www.portmanpartners.com for more information.

Ep. 12 - ’A lot of times people are trying to solve a problem that isn’t a problem,’ warns Rajiv Ramaswami – Great Business Minds

Comments (0)