VMware, Inc. announced that its board of directors has appointed Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram as member of the board of directors, effective June 1, 2021. An industry veteran, Raghuram is a strategic business leader who currently holds the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services at the company. Since joining the company in 2003, Raghuram has helped steer the company’s strategic direction and its technology evolution throughout the company’s rich history. He helped grow the core virtualization business, drove the company’s software defined data center strategy, constructed and guided the company’s cloud computing business and SaaS transformation efforts, played a pivotal role in the company’s M&A strategy, and has been key in driving partnerships with Dell Technologies, hyper-scalers and other strategic partners. The company also announced that Sumit Dhawan has been named President, leading all go-to-market functions including Worldwide Sales, Worldwide Partner and Commercial Organization, Customer Experience and Success (CXS), Marketing, and Communications. With his broad experience building and scaling subscription businesses and his customer-centric orientation, Dhawan is ideally suited to take on leadership of these teams. Dhawan currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at the company where he has helped design the business strategy for emerging multi-cloud and subscriptions offerings, transforming how the company’s customers can consume the company’s services.