Chief Evangelist and VP Customer ExperienceIn his role as Chief Evangelist, ‘Pai’ is focused on the largest global customers to ensure the best customer experience while ensuring that they have the broadest depth and knowledge of what Nutanix can do help them drive business transformation. Pai previously launched and led Alliances and Business Development to scale up their OEM, technology and vertical partner ecosystems to transform Nutanix into a platform company. In addition to bringing a wealth of tribal knowledge within Nutanix as well as the broader market and global customer install base, he is an accomplished executive speaker able to seamlessly weave a vision around Nutanix’s products, technology, and strategy with customers. Through his tenure at Nutanix, Pai has built strong executive relationships with key customers and leading conversations and discussions in Customer and Executive Advisory Boards to address the needs of critical and high potential accounts while working closely with field and product teams to influence and drive product and engineering strategy. He brings over 35 years of experience across varied disciplines from his time at many startups and tenure at Riverbed, Brocade and Hitachi Data Systems.