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Nutanix Strengthens Leadership Team Accelerating Growth in EMEA

Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), the next-generation enterprise cloud platform company, today announced that it has bolstered its EMEA team with three major appointments. Chris Kaddaras joins as Vice President and Head of EMEA, Patrick Cowden takes up the role of Vice President for Central Europe/DACH region and Emerging Markets, while Mark Lewis has been appointed Senior Director of EMEA Marketing. Their roles are effective immediately.

Nutanix says that the new arrivals will sharpen it’s focus on EMEA growth as the business looks to capitalise on the soaring opportunity of cloud with its Enterprise Cloud Platform.

Chris was with EMC for 15 years, where he held positions including Vice President of Sales and Presales across EMEA. With a 24-year track record in IT and a passion for developing strategies to help business successfully articulate its proposition to customers and partners, his insight on leadership, operational efficiency, performance and communications is regularly shared with peers and customers through industry events.Reporting to Chris, Patrick will draw upon his extensive experience from senior management responsibilities at Hitachi, Dell and EMC. A German-American, Patrick is a known author and presenter in both English and German languages.

With a target-driven approach across a number of verticals including telco, finance and government, Mark has successfully delivered messaging and communication strategies for a number of blue chip companies including Cloudera, EMC and Riverbed.

“We empower our people to interpret and adapt our values to best fit their needs across EMEA and beyond.” said Sudheesh Nair, President of Nutanix.

Nair added: “The new strategic hires will have a pivotal role to play, as our growth has been accelerated due to a rapid increase in customers, partners and employees. Chris, Patrick and Mark will not only drive our enterprise cloud solutions to new markets, but also cement our approach as a global company committed to local markets.”

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualisation and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

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