Nutanix,
the web-scale converged infrastructure company, today announced the
appointment of Sunil Potti to the position of senior vice president of
engineering and product management. With more than 20 years of
datacenter and networking experience, Sunil joins Nutanix from Citrix, where he led the Citrix NetScaler business for over five
years of record growth. Throughout his career, he has built
industry-leading products and scaled teams against intense competition
from large incumbent players. At Nutanix he will oversee all product
functions including product strategy, development, and quality.
“Sunil is an entrepreneur at heart who has both built and scaled
successful enterprise businesses,” said Dheeraj Pandey, co-founder and
CEO, Nutanix. “The coming five years of Nutanix require people like
Sunil who bring together the ‘why’ of Product Management with the ‘how’
and ‘what’ of Engineering. He is a world-class product executive who is
broad and customer-centric. I am delighted he is here to build on our
Act II.”
Overseeing Citrix’s NetScaler business, Sunil was responsible for record
growth over five consecutive years and cementing NetScaler as a
respected datacenter infrastructure solution powering many of the
world’s largest clouds, Internet properties, global enterprises and
service providers. He joined Citrix from F5 Networks, where he was vice
president of the acceleration and virtualization group. Prior to F5, he
co-founded and led all product efforts for application-oriented
networking at Cisco. Previous to this, Sunil was an early employee at
Synchrony, a CRM startup acquired by Divine, where he headed products
and engineering. Sunil holds a master’s degree in computer science from
Pennsylvania State University.
“Nutanix is upending the market by providing truly innovative web-scale
technology to enterprises and global service providers,” said Sunil
Potti. “I have always been passionate about working on fast growing and
innovative technologies, and Nutanix has the most impressive combination
of market transformation opportunity, disruptive technology and world
class talent I have seen. In a relatively short period of time, Nutanix
has built strong brand equity and inspired delight with over 1000
customers worldwide by being the only solution to make datacenter
infrastructure truly simple. To be joining the company at this stage is
very exciting.”