# Prashanth Shenoy

> Prashanth Shenoy is the CMO and vice president of marketing for Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation division, where he leads strategy and execution across a cloud infrastructure and AI software portfolio. An engineer by training, he began at Cisco in 2000, crossed into marketing in 2005, spent more than 22 years there, and joined VMware in 2022. His current work centers on making the case for a unified private-cloud platform as enterprises weigh AI costs, control, security, and data sovereignty.

- **Role:** CMO and Vice President, Marketing, VMware Cloud Foundation Division at Broadcom
- **Organizations:** Broadcom, VMware, Cisco, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Texas A&M University
- **Education:** MBA, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, MS in Computer Science, Texas A&M University
- **Known for:** Built a career spanning more than 20 years across software engineering, product management, and marketing., Led marketing for Cisco's enterprise, data center and cloud networking, IoT infrastructure, and developer solutions business., Led a global Cisco marketing team of 80 people across 25 countries, according to CRN.

## Career timeline

- **2000** — Joined Cisco as a senior software engineer.
- **2005** — Moved into his first marketing management role at Cisco.
- **2004-2007** — Completed an MBA at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
- **2020-2022** — Served as a Cisco vice president of cloud and networking marketing and global marketing head for its cloud infrastructure and software portfolio.
- **2022** — Joined VMware as vice president of Cloud Platform, Infrastructure and Solutions Marketing.
- **2023** — Continued with VMware after it became part of Broadcom, leading product marketing for the VMware Cloud Foundation division.
- **2025** — Served as CMO and vice president of marketing for the VCF division as VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 launched.
- **2026** — Led VCF marketing around private cloud, production AI, application modernization, platform engineering, and VCF 9.1.

## Achievements

- Built a career spanning more than 20 years across software engineering, product management, and marketing.
- Led marketing for Cisco's enterprise, data center and cloud networking, IoT infrastructure, and developer solutions business.
- Led a global Cisco marketing team of 80 people across 25 countries, according to CRN.
- Helped launch Cisco's Future Cloud hybrid-cloud automation offering and Cisco Plus services.
- Took responsibility at VMware for product and technical marketing across private, hyperscaler, and service-provider clouds.
- Now oversees marketing strategy and execution for Broadcom's VCF cloud infrastructure and AI software portfolio.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Published 'The Platform Imperative,' arguing that AI readiness depends on modernized applications, mature private cloud, and aligned platform-engineering and infrastructure teams.
- **2026-06** — Promoted Private Cloud Outlook 2026 findings from a survey of 1,800 IT leaders, including growing production-AI use on private cloud and workload repatriation interest.
- **2026-05** — Discussed VCF 9.1's focus on infrastructure resiliency, AI project scale, and hardware supply constraints in a product briefing.
- **2026-05** — Published guidance on adapting infrastructure and patching practices to faster AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.
- **2026-02** — Appeared with VMUG executive director Brad Tompkins in a Visionary Voices interview about VCF 9, private-cloud momentum, and enterprise AI.

## Links

- Website: https://www.broadcom.com/company/news/author/prashanth-shenoy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashanthshenoy

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Last updated: 2026-08-17