Cohesity today
announced it has added Silicon Valley veteran Robin Matlock to its
board of directors. Matlock brings more than 30 years of marketing,
sales, and business development experience to the board spanning a
variety of markets including enterprise software, cloud services, and
security.
Matlock
most recently served as chief marketing officer (CMO) at VMware, a
position she held for seven years. During her eleven years with the
company, she helped shape the company's business and go to market
strategy and played a key role in scaling the company's revenues from
$2B to $11B.
Before
joining VMware, Matlock was executive vice president and general
manager at the data security company Imperva. Prior to that, she spent
more than five years at McAfee, serving in several roles including vice
president of product marketing and senior vice president of field
marketing. Matlock currently serves as an independent director with
information management company Iron Mountain. She is an executive
advisor to People.ai, a revenue acceleration startup, and Calamu, a
disruptive data security company.
"I
am excited to join the Cohesity Board of Directors at this unique point
in the company's journey," said Matlock. "The company continues to
experience rapid growth and adoption at an impressive pace. At the same
time, Cohesity is poised to gain tremendous market share as it rapidly
scales its portfolio to include data management innovations in cloud,
SaaS, compliance, and security. I've been fortunate to help lead other
companies through periods of substantial growth and look forward to
bringing ideas and experiences to Cohesity."
"We
are thrilled to add Robin to our board of directors as she brings
extensive expertise and a long track record of success in areas that are
highly relevant to our business," said Mohit Aron, founder and chief
executive officer, Cohesity. "She will play a key role in helping guide
Cohesity in the next phase of our growth as we continue to disrupt the
data management market and grow our as a service offerings."
Matlock
joins Cohesity's board as the company continues to bring new and
innovative data management capabilities to market. Most recently,
Cohesity announced a strategic collaboration with AWS to
bring to market Data Management as a Service -- a set of SaaS-based
offerings that provide customers with another simple way to back up,
secure, govern, and analyze their data, all managed directly by Cohesity
and hosted on AWS.