Weka Appoints Shanta Kohli Chief Marketing Officer

Weka, a AI data and memory infrastructure company, announced the appointment of Shanta Kohli as CMO. A veteran marketer, she brings more than 25 years of B2B enterprise industry experience spanning data infrastructure, cybersecurity, and cloud technologies to Weka. Reporting to company co-founder and CEO Liran Zvibel, Kohli will be responsible for Weka’s global marketing function, fueling its brand and demand-generation engine, and driving its growth trajectory.

“The convergence of inference economics, agentic workloads, and infrastructure modernization creates a set of challenges few companies are positioned to solve. Weka is defining a new category of AI data and memory infrastructure built for this moment,” Zvibel said. “Shanta brings impressive experience to Weka. She is a customer-focused growth architect who has built demand-generation engines from the ground up, helping companies at our stage triple their ARR. Equally, she understands what it takes to move a technical brand through a crowded market and turn attention into revenue by reaching and engaging buyers navigating the same complex business and technology challenges our customers face. We’re thrilled she’s here.”

Kohli joins Weka from Sysdig, where she spent nearly six years building and leading the company’s global marketing organization, progressing from VP, marketing and demand generation, to CMO. Prior to Sysdig, she led product and integrated marketing for Palo Alto Networks’ network security business. Before Palo Alto Networks, she served as VP, corporate marketing, Nimble Storage, where she led the company’s go-to-market transition from SMB to enterprise and managed its marketing integration with HPE following its 2017 acquisition. She has also held senior leadership roles at Blue Coat Systems, HP Software, and other companies. Kohli holds a bachelor of science in business administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

“The AI industry has reached an inflection point where the infrastructure layer is no longer a background decision – it’s a critical architectural choice that has lasting implications for your business,” said Shanta Kohli, CMO, Weka. “What drew me to Weka was the chance to build a category-leading brand and growth engine for a company solving the toughest challenges enterprises face in running AI at scale. Weka has a product that actually delivers on its promises, devoted customers, a massive market opportunity, and a team with the ambition to match. My job is to make sure the world can’t look away.”