Sanjay Mirchandani to lead VMware APJ market

PALO ALTO, USA: VMware, Inc. announced the appointment of Sanjay Mirchandani to the post of senior VP and GM to lead the VMware Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) business, effective October 14, 2013.

Mirchandani succeeds Andrew Dutton, who will continue to lead VMware APJ until October 14, 2013 after which he will partner with Mirchandani for the remainder of the year to facilitate smooth transition of leadership.

Mirchandani has 25 years of international business, IT and consultancy experience, including 11 years spent in APAC. He joins VMware from EMC, where he most recently served as executive VP, global enterprise services.

He joined EMC in 2006 and has played roles that have included CIO, aggressively leading the company on a multi-year journey to 92 per cent virtualization and a state-of-the-art private cloud. During the same timeframe, he was the COO of seven of EMC's Global CoE. Prior, as president of EMC's emerging markets and international development, he championed global growth opportunities with a focus on rapidly-growing markets.

Earlier in his career, Mirchandani served as Microsoft's regional VP, Enterprise Services in Asia, working with the region's largest customers and partners. He also held many other management positions at Microsoft that included president, APAC Region; president, South Asia; and MD, India.