VMware Appoints Ben Fathi as CTO – former Cisco Exec
VMware has appointed Ben Fathi to the role of chief technology officer, replacing Steve Herrod who served as VMware’s chief technology officer since 2008.
Fathi most recently served as senior vice president, R&D, at VMware and has been with the company since 2012. Prior to joining VMware, Fathi served as a senior vice president at Cisco leading the operating systems and networking protocol teams. Prior to Cisco, he held multiple roles at Microsoft over 12 years, most recently as corporate vice president of development for the Windows core operating system division.
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VMware has appointed Ben Fathi to the role of chief technology officer, replacing Steve Herrod who served as VMware’s chief technology officer since 2008.
