Raghu Raghuram joined VMware in 2003 and currently serves as the company's CEO. During his tenure at VMware, Raghuram has held multiple leadership roles, most recently Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services, where he had responsibility for all of VMware's product and service offerings and centralized services, support and operational functions. Prior, he led the company's software-defined data center business as the executive vice president and general manager, where he was responsible for the division's strategy, business and product planning and engineering execution. Before, he led the company's cloud infrastructure and management business as the general manager, and led worldwide product marketing, product management and business planning for the company, and served as part of the leadership team that took the company through its initial IPO. Raghuram began his career at VMware running product management for ESX and vSphere.
