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Burt Toma leads the Tanzu product portfolio, providing vision and direction for the product roadmap and Tanzu’s go-to-market strategy.
Toma is focused on the development of software solutions that help customers accelerate app development and delivery. With over 20 years of experience leading product teams in the software industry, Toma is passionate about simplifying the application development process, and magnifying the effectiveness of IT platform engineering.
Prior to Broadcom, Toma was Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Automation at VMware where he led cloud operations, infrastructure, and security for VMware’s Aria Automation product line. He has also held leadership and product roles at startups and established firms, including BMC Software, MokaFive, and Opsware (acquired by HP).
Toma holds a BS and MS from MIT, and an MBA from University of California at Berkeley. He resides in the California Bay Area with his wife Christina.

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Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&amp;A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk.

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Purnima Padmanabhan is Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Tanzu Division. Prior to joining Broadcom, she was Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s Modern Applications &amp; Management Business and was responsible for application modernization, cloud native application development and multi-cloud management. She previously led the company’s Cloud Management Business.

Ms. Padmanabhan has extensive experience building and launching innovative products in cloud infrastructure, security and enterprise mobility. Prior to joining VMware, she was CEO of Cavirin, a cloud security company, where she drove a turnaround. She was previously COO of MokaFive, a desktop virtualization company, and was responsible for global product operations.

Ms. Padmanabhan holds an MBA from Stanford University and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California.

Purnima Padmanabhan

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