Amanda Blevins is a senior director and chief technologist in the Office of the CTO at VMware. She enables customers and partners to achieve their business objectives by co-creating a comprehensive technology strategy with executive leaders. She focuses on cloud, edge, and emerging technologies. Amanda collaborates with VMware’s R&D Business Units to ensure VMware’s portfolio meets the strategic needs of its customers and the industry.

Kit is CTO of the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware. Previously, Kit was VP/GM of Cloud Native Apps, CTO for End-User Computing, chief architect and principal engineer for Workspace Portal, and the lead management architect for the vRealize Operations Suite. Kit began his career as the technical lead behind the creation, development, and delivery of the vMotion and Storage vMotion features in vSphere. He holds a ScB in Computer Science from Brown University.

Duncan Epping is VMware’s chief technologist for HCI. In this role, he serves as a partner and trusted adviser to VMware’s customers and partners. He is responsible for ensuring that VMware’s HCI future innovations align with essential customer needs, as well as translating customer problems into opportunities. Duncan has 6 patents granted and 5 patents pending on the topics of availability, storage, and resource management.

Tom Gillis is the SVP/GM of NSBU at VMware. Tom’s background gives him a keen understanding of the direction of cloud, security, and enterprise computing, making him an ideal leader to drive VMware’s networking and security strategy. Prior to joining VMware, Tom was CEO of Bracket Computing. Before starting Bracket, Tom was VP/GM of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems. He was also VP of Marketing and part of the founding team of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007.

Cameron serves as VMware CTO for the Americas. In this role, he is responsible for helping to drive the execution and communication of the Office of the CTO’s vision, internally and externally, supporting VMware’s Americas field teams on all CTO evangelism and representing VMware’s technical vision to customers, partners and analysts. Prior to VMware, Cameron was a Vice President in Gartner where he earned a Gartner Thought Leadership award and held various roles at BMC Software and IBM.

Cody Hosterman is the Technical Director of VMware Solution Engineering at Pure Storage and is in charge of the technical VMware strategy for the FlashArray and Cloud Block Store product lines. This includes best practices, VMware product integration, co-engineering projects, and VMware/Pure ecosystem architectures. Cody has been a VMware vExpert since 2013, his blog was voted a #7 vBlog in 2019, and was named a VMworld Distinguished Speaker in 2020.

Shankar Iyer is the SVP and GM of End User Computing at VMware Inc. This responsibility includes overall business strategy and performance, product management and marketing, R&D, market positioning, and customer success.

Previously, Shankar ran the Desktop business as part of EUC and as the SVP and GM of Desktop products. Prior to VMware, Shankar was the VP of Products and Engineering for Enterprise Mobility at Citrix Systems, where he was instrumental in building the XenMobile business and products from the ground up.

Before Citrix, Shankar was at WebEx as VP of Products and Engineering. He was responsible for WebEx’s next generation platform and ecosystem and continued that role as part of the Cloud Application Services group at Cisco Systems. Shankar has also held executive management roles at Tibco Software as VP of Products and at GemStone Systems as EVP of Products before its acquisition by VMware. He has an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MS from the Ohio State University, and a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.

Joe Kinsella is the CTO and VP of CloudHealth by VMware, a division focused on enabling customers to transform their businesses by delivering on the promise of multi-cloud management.

Joe was previously the founder of CloudHealth Technologies, which was acquired by VMware in 2018. Prior to that, Joe served as VP of Engineering at the Amazon-backed cloud archiving company Sonian, where he pioneered using multiple public clouds at scale.

Greg Lavender joined VMware in January 2018 and currently serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer. His main area of focus is to ensure VMware’s long-term technology leadership through research and innovation programs, with the primary goal of positively impacting and shaping the future of VMware, its ecosystem, and its customers.

Lavender has over 35 years of experience in software and hardware product engineering and advanced R&D in industry research labs and academia. Before joining VMware, he was managing director and CTO for Cloud Architecture and Technology Engineering at Citigroup, where he led the global transformation of Citi IT to adopt modern mobile technology, cloud IaaS and PaaS, big data and advanced analytics, high performance computing, and agile software development models.

Previously, Lavender was corporate vice president of Network Software Engineering at Cisco, he led network operating system engineering and platform independent protocol engineering for both enterprise and data center switching and routing products, including the next generation virtualized multi-core network operating system for software-defined networking. Prior to Cisco, Lavender worked at Sun Microsystems in various engineering leadership roles, including VP of Engineering for the Solaris Operating System.

Lavender holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Science and PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Lakshmi Mandyam serves as the Vice President of Product Management. Prior to VMware, she was the Director of Server Systems and Ecosystems at ARM, where she led ARM’s initiatives on Servers. She was at ARM for more than 4 years where she led ARM’s market initiatives for Enterprise Networking and Wireless Infrastructure, Set-top-Boxes and Storage. Prior to ARM, Lakshmi worked in engineering, marketing, and management roles at various companies, including Freescale Semiconductor and ColdWatt, building technology for enterprise applications. She has a BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin.

Christina has a background leading Pre-Sales System Engineering teams at VMware, including the End User Computing and Internet of Things Business Units, as well as at Google Cloud. Prior to EUC Technical Marketing, she led Technical Marketing and Technical Program Management for New Product Introduction within the VMware Edge and IoT business. Christina holds a bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from The University of Georgia and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.

Under Patrick Morley’s leadership, Carbon Black has grown from niche startup into endpoint security leader. He joined the company as CEO in 2007 and, since then, has led the team through several major milestones including: a merger with Bit9, three acquisitions, a company transition to a SaaS model, a successful IPO on NASDAQ (in 2018) and, most recently, a $2.1 billion sale to VMware. Patrick now serves as the General Manager for VMware’s Security Business Unit. He has been recognized as one of the industry’s most thoughtful and reputable leaders.

Jason has diverse company experience from founding two successful startups to building and running a $1B portfolio for an industry-leading public company. He has defined, launched and marketed hundreds of products across the cloud, networking, and security space. He is a top-rated company spokesperson with worldwide experience reaching business and technical audiences across enterprise, telco, web-scale companies.

Ajay Patel is the GM of the Modern Applications Business Unit at VMware, setting the course for VMware Tanzu and guiding customers on their cloud native journey.

Raghu Raghuram joined VMware in 2003 and joint responsibility with Dr. Rajiv Ramaswami for all of VMware’s product and service offerings and centralized services, support, and operational functions. In this role, Raghuram’s primary focus is on VMware’s cloud services offerings.

During his tenure at VMware, Raghuram has held multiple leadership roles. Most recently, 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. He has led the company’s cloud infrastructure and management business as the general manager, and led worldwide product marketing, product management and business planning for VMware's virtual infrastructure. Raghuram began his career at VMware running product management for ESX and vSphere.

Prior to VMware, Raghuram held product management and marketing roles at AOL, Bang Networks, and Netscape. Raghuram holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Kyle Ruddy is a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager for HashiCorp, where he focuses on Terraform. Kyle is also a Microsoft MVP and long-term VMware vExpert whom can be found blogging on his personal blog, https://www.kmruddy.com, and the HashiCorp blog. His Twitter: @kmruddy

Allwyn Sequeira serves as SVP and GM Platform & Services Telco Edge Cloud at VMware. Prior Sequeira was SVP & GM of VMware’s Cloud, vCloud Air. Prior, Sequeira was VP R&D and CTO, Network & Security BU, responsible for R&D and delivery of vSphere Networking, vCloud Networking & Security, and the industry leading network virtualization platform NSX, including integrating the Nicira R&D team.

Sequeira joined VMware in 2008, via the acquisition of the leading security virtualization company, Bluelane, where he served as SVP Products & CTO. From 2000, Sequeira was EVP/CTO and Board member at internet route control company netVMG, acquired by InterNap in 2004. From 1993, Sequeira was founder, EVP/GM Products, and Board member at data/video/voice networking company First Virtual Communications, which had a successful IPO in 1998.

Sequeira has more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry and is a recognized leader in the areas of cloud infrastructure, virtualization, network & security, and internet solutions. Sequeira has led several industry innovations, including hybrid cloud platforms, SDN (NSX, VXLAN), distributed routing, firewalls & load balancers, and security virtualization (vShield). Sequeira holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Katherine joined VMware PSO in 2016 and helps customers in the Northern EMEA region get more from the Automation and Orchestration toolsets. Katherine is also active in mentoring and volunteering in the local community: A member of the Women in Brunel Engineering and Computing (WiBEC) program, she mentors a female engineering student and volunteers at a local technology club for 8-11 year- olds. In 2020, Katherine was accepted into VMware’s CTO Ambassadors program.

Joshua Spencer is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect for End User Computing at VMware. He is responsible for developing content for new product releases and technology integrations. Before joining VMware in 2010, Josh spent 12 years in IT. With a decade of hands-on experience with desktop and app virtualization, he presents on these topics locally and internationally. Josh holds a B.S. focused on technology in business and a M.Ed. in educational technology from the University of Toledo.

David Stamen is a Field Solutions Architect focused on VMware and Cloud solutions at Pure Storage.

Sanjay Uppal, SVP and GM of VeloCloud, now part of VMware, has over twenty years of experience in bringing innovative networking products to market. He is also experienced in growing successful business organizations, as well as in product definition, development, marketing and delivery of software, security, mobile applications, and networking products. In 2012, Sanjay co-founded VeloCloud, Inc., serving as its CEO until it was acquired by VMware in 2017.

James Watters is the CTO of the Modern Application Platforms BU at VMware. James works with customers to integrate VMware Tanzu to accelerate their time to market by modernizing their applications and infrastructure.

Prior to VMware, James was the SVP of Strategy at Pivotal. James worked closely with Pivotal's enterprise customers to shape the product and go-to-market strategy for Pivotal Cloud Foundry and its internally and externally- built ecosystem. James has been responsible for the Cloud Foundry platform strategy since the technology's early incubation at VMware. From the beginnings of Pivotal's founding, James held leadership responsibilities for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Spring, and RabbitMQ products, field engineering, overlay sales, marketing, partner development, and engineering.

Chris leads the Advanced Technology Group in the VMware Office of the CTO. The Advanced Technology Group is responsible for delivering off-roadmap innovations inclusive of new products and technologies on a sub three-year horizon.

Susan is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in VMware's Networking and Security Business Unit. She is the co-author of "Service Mesh for Dummies" and "Network Automation for Dummies" books. Previously, Susan led product and technical marketing roles at Sun/Oracle, Canonical, Docker, Citrix, and Midokura (SDN startup now Sony Group). She is a frequent speaker at conferences such as OSCON, Open Source Summit, Container World, Interop, Open Networking Summit, and VMworld.  Twitter @susanwu88  Github.com/susanwu88