Guru Venkatachalam Promoted to VMware’s Chief Technology Officer for APJ

VMware has elevated Guru Venkatachalam to Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific & Japan. He most recently served as VMware’s Vice President of Cloud Architecture for Asia Pacific and Japan, as well as a Member of the Office of the CTO. He previously served Citi over the course of two decades in roles of increasing IT leadership capacity, ultimately as Managing Director / Global Engineering Head of End User Computing & Asia CTO, Architecture & Engineering. He has also held positions with Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), Packard Bell, and Pertech Computers.

VMware is a software company that provides cloud computing and virtualization software and services based in Palo Alto, CA. With a workforce of 31,000 employees, VMware’s revenue for fiscal year 2020 was $10.81 billion.