Inder Sidhu EVP of Customer Success and Business Operations, Nutanix

Nutanix, Inc. appointed Inder Sidhu as EVP of global customer success and business operations.

In this position, he will draw on his expertise in business strategy, digital transformation and business operations to help drive the next phase of growth at the company.

“With 30 years of technology industry experience, including a 20-year track record of success in driving global go-to-market and customer success at Cisco, Inder brings a wealth of business knowledge and experience to Nutanix. I’m delighted to have him join our team at a critical point in our journey to becoming a major force in enterprise technology,” said Dheeraj Pandey, CEO, Nutanix. “Inder’s addition to the team further strengthens our exceptional executive bench, and will help us expand and deepen our customer relationships and grow our business in the multi-cloud era.“

Accelerating Customers’ Digital Transformations
Sidhu will lead a team that will be focused on customers’ success throughout their engagement lifecycle with Nutanix. He will also lead the company’s business operations, strategy, and planning teams, working with the company’s sales, marketing and finance leaders.

He brings industry knowledge, customer experience, strategic insight and operational expertise to the company.

As SVP of strategy and planning for worldwide sales at Cisco, he architected Cisco’s global go-to-market engine that helped the company grow from $1 billion in annual revenue to $50 billion.

He co-led Cisco’s highly-profitable $16 billion enterprise business, its growing $7 billion emerging countries business, and its 1,200-person digitally-driven worldwide professional services business. He also spearheaded the company’s digital transformation initiatives. Prior to Cisco, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, an engineer with Intel and an entrepreneur at Excelan, a successful Silicon Valley start-up, through its IPO.

He is also a New York Times author of the books The Digital Revolution: How Connected Digital Innovations are Transforming Your Industry, Company, and Career and Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth.

He is a frequently speaker, and has taught at Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and UC Berkeley.

“A digital revolution is taking place, and Nutanix is at the forefront in leading this revolution,” said Sidhu. “Nutanix customers love how its enterprise cloud platform allows them to transform IT so they can focus on improving business outcomes. My role is to expand and scale our customer success, while ensuring continued operational excellence, so that we can become even more deeply involved in accelerating our customers’ digital transformation initiatives.“