Sanjay Poonen is the CEO and President of Cohesity, the data security and management company that absorbed Veritas' enterprise backup business in late 2024 to become the largest data protection vendor in the world. A Dartmouth-Stanford-Harvard alumnus who arrived in Boston at 18 with fifty dollars, he previously helped double revenues at both SAP (from ~$10B to ~$20B) and VMware (from ~$6B to ~$12B), where as COO he architected the landmark VMware-AWS partnership and the AirWatch acquisition.
Vikas J. Parekh is a Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, where he helps oversee the SoftBank Vision Fund's investment activities. He focuses on enterprise technology, healthcare, and AI investments. Parekh serves on the board of Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM), a warehouse automation company, and has been involved with SoftBank's investments in companies like Cohesity. He previously worked at Morgan Stanley and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.