New Virtana president and CEO Shaikh, who was most recently global vice-president and general manager for the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions business at Dell Technologies, will look to maximise cloud optimisation services for Global 2000 companies.
The new chief spent nearly four years at Dell, leading the business units through transformation and re-engineering of investments, and helping to drive growth of 28%.
Prior to joining Dell, Shaikh held vice-president positions at Ruckus Wireless (now part of Commscope), and Riverbed Technology (acquired by Thoma Bravo), as well as leadership roles at HPE.
Earlier in his career, Shaikh held marketing and engineering leadership roles at Cisco and Nortel Networks, and for the last five years, he has sat on the board at non-profit organisation Ignited, which provides professional development opportunities for teachers, employers and researchers.
All chief executive and CEO appointments covered in 2020
“Virtana is poised for accelerated growth as it extends its competencies in data center and private cloud optimisation to new hybrid and multi-cloud environments,” said new Virtana president and CEO Shaikh.
“The company’s Global 2000 customers have long valued Virtana as a partner in optimising and managing their on-premises and private cloud infrastructure.
“We now have the unique opportunity to use the rich data sets coming from our AI-powered, high-performance monitoring tools to help customers and partners efficiently and effectively move to the public cloud and manage cloud resources for cost, performance, and availability.”
Ron Sege, executive chairman of Virtana, commented: “As an executive with a proven track record of business transformation in data centre and cloud markets, Kash is the right person to lead Virtana as we help our Global 2000 customers and their partners use our high-fidelity data sets to plan and optimise their hybrid cloud migrations for cost, capacity, and performance.
“He has hands-on experience in every aspect of the business necessary to our success and is known for building and motivating great teams.”
