Cohesity appoints Murthy as new CPO

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Data security provider Cohesity has announced the appointment of Vasu Murthy as its new SVP and chief product officer.

Murthy is a veteran with over 25 years of experience building enterprise software at scale. According to Cohesity he has successfully led software launches at companies ranging from day-zero startups to large, global brands, with strengths in driving rapid growth and managing complex multi-product scaling efforts. Murthy was chosen for his experience in data protection, security, and analytics. He comes to Cohesity from Rubrik, where he was VP of Products and was responsible for the company’s core product, platform, and technology partnerships. He helped grow Rubrik’s ARR tenfold over six years to IPO while navigating transformation across three fronts: software to subscription, on-prem to cloud, and backup to data security.

Prior to Rubrik, Murthy was VP of Products for the Analytics Platform at Oracle, launching several $100M+ products while driving innovation and cloud transformation.

“Vasu’s strong experience supporting organizations through significant growth and transformational change with a customer-first mindset, as well as his deep domain expertise, made him the perfect fit for Cohesity,” said Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO, Cohesity. “Vasu has consistently delivered exceptional results in his past experiences, shaping product portfolios to meet customer needs while driving business evolution and transformation. His data protection, security, and analytics expertise will help us further extend our innovations as we enter a new era of Cohesity in the coming years.”

“Cohesity has taken an aggressive and innovative approach to leveraging AI to strengthen the security of its platform and offer customers new insight into their business data. And combining Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business will only bring more resources to develop new products at scale, something I’m deeply excited about,” said Murthy. “Cohesity has a differentiated vision and platform that has the potential to transform the industry completely. As we scale our R&D investments and build best-in-class offerings to support global customers, I look forward to partnering with the team to make a bigger impact. I’m thrilled to join Cohesity in their journey as we enter the next growth phase.”