Cohesity, experts in data security and management, has announced the appointment of Kit Beall to the role of Chief Revenue Officer.
A business development and enterprise tech veteran, Kit brings more than 30 years of relevant experience to Cohesity, with expertise in software, cloud, security, artificial intelligence (AI), and managed services. In this role, Kit will utilise his international experience in overseeing all sales and partner functions worldwide.
Prior to joining Cohesity, Kit was Senior Vice President of Global Accounts and telcos at VMware, where he was responsible for managing, growing, and advising VMware’s largest and most strategic global accounts, including some of VMware’s key verticals such as financial services. Prior to that, Kit was Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Field Sales at Uhana, an AI platform for 5G mobile networks. Uhana was acquired by VMware in 2019. Kit also spent 12 years at Cisco, most recently as Vice President of Sales for the company’s cloud and managed service business.
Kit said, “I’m thrilled to join Cohesity at this important juncture of the company’s evolution. I have long regarded Cohesity as having the best technology in the space, and deeply respect their CEO, founder, board, and management team.
“Cohesity sits at the junction of three of the highest priority business issues today – security, cloud, and data management, and it provides a radically simple yet highly differentiated approach to securing, protecting, and deriving value from data. I look forward to helping customers and partners succeed and working with this incredibly talented team.”
Kit has a strong reputation for helping customers and partners deliver on business outcomes by embracing technology and cloud services that can play a key role in addressing critical business challenges. He also is known for building and scaling high-performing, diverse teams.
Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity added, “I’ve known Kit for many years, and respected his track record of understanding customer pain points and connecting them to technology innovations that drive strong business outcomes. He is results-oriented, an entrepreneurial change agent, and brings strong customer and partner relationships to Cohesity. Beyond that, Kit has the unique gift of being both strategically relevant to a customer, while also being deep in operational details - a valuable skill in leading a modern-day field operation. Kit will be a key member of my leadership team, and I’m delighted to have him on board.”
