Robin Purohit President and CEO, Clustrix

Clustrix, Inc. announced the appointment of Robin Purohit as president and CEO.

 Purohit has led more than 20 acquisitions and was an executive leader for three successful exits of Mercury to HP (2007), Veritas to Symantec (2005), and CANSTAR Communications to HP (1994).

Purohit succeeds Paul Mikesell, co-founder of Clustrix, who will serve as vice president of strategy and technology.
 
Purohit came to Clustrix from HP, where he was a vice president and general manager of HP‘s three-billion-dollar portfolio of IT management, information management, and application security products. He joined HP through the Mercury Interactive acquisition; at Mercury, he was vice president of product management and marketing. Prior to that, Purohit was a vice president of product management and marketing at Veritas Software, where he led a two-billion-dollar product line for storage software, backup and recovery, cluster computing, and utility computing.

He holds a bachelor’s degree of applied science, Engineering/Physics, from the University of Waterloo.
 
"We are pleased to have Robin join the Clustrix team to help accelerate corporate growth for one of our portfolio companies," said Greg McAdoo of Sequoia Capital, a Clustrix investor. "His remarkable management experience and industry insight in the enterprise and service provider markets make him the perfect leader to guide Clustrix through its next expansion phase."
 
"I am thrilled to be here at Clustrix today," said Robin Purohit. "Clustrix has world-class investors, an amazing parallel database architecture that is customer proven, and a team with a track record of creating new markets. We have reinvented the relational database from the ground up to support the most demanding ‘big data’ Internet applications with transactional workloads. Our customers realize significant cost and time savings with our combination of simplicity, unmatched performance, scalability, and MySQL compatibility."