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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cohesity, a leader in next-gen data management, today announced that Karen Egan has joined the company as chief customer experience officer. Based in Cork, Ireland, Egan has global responsibility for the company's customer experience, including Professional Services, Success, and Support teams.
The technology and support veteran brings more than 27 years of experience in the software and IT industry, with 20 years in technical support. In addition, people and culture are always at the top of Egan's mind and she is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Before joining Cohesity, Egan served as a SVP of Global Support at VMware, where she was responsible for global support of new and strategic products, all customer escalations, and customer success for VMware's solutions. Under her leadership she led the team to ensure a seamless and excellent support experience for enterprise, commercial, and SMB customers across all product suites including on-premises, SaaS and hybrid offerings. Egan also drove and implemented the transformation across VMware's support operations to align with the company's transition from perpetual license to subscription and SaaS offerings. Prior to her 15- year tenure at VMware, Egan held roles at Motorola and Apple.
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"Karen's proven leadership, deep understanding of customer management and support, her laser focus on customer relationship management, and her extensive background in software infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and SaaS makes her the ideal choice for this role," said Mohit Aron, founder and chief technology and product officer, Cohesity. "Karen also understands how impactful a strong company culture can be in terms of employee engagement, and has a flair for leadership-generating motivation and enthusiasm across all levels of the organization. We're thrilled to have Karen on our executive leadership team.
"I'm excited to join Cohesity's seasoned leadership team and take the amazing global customer experience team to the next level," said Egan. "Thousands of customers rely on Cohesity solutions to manage, secure, protect, and recover data in multicloud and hybrid environments all on one unique platform. Through our customer experience team, I'm thrilled to help customers advance data security and accelerate their move to the cloud, while providing best-in-class support and professional services."
About Cohesity
Cohesity radically simplifies data management. We make it easy to protect, manage, and derive value from data – across the data center, edge, and cloud. We offer a full suite of services consolidated on one multicloud data platform: backup and recovery, disaster recovery, file and object services, dev/test, and data compliance, security, and analytics – reducing complexity and eliminating mass data fragmentation. Cohesity can be delivered as a service, self managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner.
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© 2022 Cohesity, Inc. All rights reserved. Cohesity, the Cohesity logo, Helios, and other Cohesity marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cohesity, Inc. in the US and/or internationally. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
Contacts
Media:
Michael Thacker
Sr. Director, Global Public Relations
michael.thacker@cohesity.com
415-205-8326
Highwire Public Relations for Cohesity
Kelly Promes
cohesity@highwirepr.com
The technology and support veteran brings more than 27 years of experience in the software and IT industry, with 20 years in technical support. In addition, people and culture are always at the top of Egan's mind and she is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Before joining Cohesity, Egan served as a SVP of Global Support at VMware, where she was responsible for global support of new and strategic products, all customer escalations, and customer success for VMware's solutions. Under her leadership she led the team to ensure a seamless and excellent support experience for enterprise, commercial, and SMB customers across all product suites including on-premises, SaaS and hybrid offerings. Egan also drove and implemented the transformation across VMware's support operations to align with the company's transition from perpetual license to subscription and SaaS offerings. Prior to her 15- year tenure at VMware, Egan held roles at Motorola and Apple.
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"Karen's proven leadership, deep understanding of customer management and support, her laser focus on customer relationship management, and her extensive background in software infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and SaaS makes her the ideal choice for this role," said Mohit Aron, founder and chief technology and product officer, Cohesity. "Karen also understands how impactful a strong company culture can be in terms of employee engagement, and has a flair for leadership-generating motivation and enthusiasm across all levels of the organization. We're thrilled to have Karen on our executive leadership team.
"I'm excited to join Cohesity's seasoned leadership team and take the amazing global customer experience team to the next level," said Egan. "Thousands of customers rely on Cohesity solutions to manage, secure, protect, and recover data in multicloud and hybrid environments all on one unique platform. Through our customer experience team, I'm thrilled to help customers advance data security and accelerate their move to the cloud, while providing best-in-class support and professional services."
About Cohesity
Cohesity radically simplifies data management. We make it easy to protect, manage, and derive value from data – across the data center, edge, and cloud. We offer a full suite of services consolidated on one multicloud data platform: backup and recovery, disaster recovery, file and object services, dev/test, and data compliance, security, and analytics – reducing complexity and eliminating mass data fragmentation. Cohesity can be delivered as a service, self managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner.
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© 2022 Cohesity, Inc. All rights reserved. Cohesity, the Cohesity logo, Helios, and other Cohesity marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cohesity, Inc. in the US and/or internationally. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
Contacts
Media:
Michael Thacker
Sr. Director, Global Public Relations
michael.thacker@cohesity.com
415-205-8326
Highwire Public Relations for Cohesity
Kelly Promes
cohesity@highwirepr.com
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