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Ahmar is Vice President for Partners and Advanced Solutions Sales at Broadcom, leading strategic partnerships to drive growth, innovation, and market leadership with the partner ecosystem, across Cloud Service Providers, OEMs, Hyperscalers, and Technology Alliances.
Prior to this role, Ahmar led the Global Transformation Office at VMware, where he orchestrated the company's evolution from a software-centric model to a cloud and subscription-focused organization. His responsibilities encompassed the development and execution of various initiatives, including standardized go-to-market plays, multi-cloud offerings, and subscription conversion programs. Under his leadership, VMware witnessed significant strides in transforming to the subscription licensing model, aligning business strategies with market trends and customer needs. In past roles at VMware, Ahmar has been responsible for VMware Cloud on AWS, AWS Sales Synergy, and Cloud Economics business development. His efforts were instrumental in accelerating cloud sales motions, fostering strategic partnerships, and delivering compelling value propositions to customers. Bringing over 24 years of cloud industry experience, Ahmar has led several business development, sales, and marketing teams at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, prior to joining VMware. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Ahmar holds majors in Information Systems and Decision Sciences.

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Krish Prasad is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation Division where he oversees the company’s multi-cloud Infrastructure software portfolio that spans Private Clouds and Clouds from Service Provider partners and Hyperscalers.

Before joining Broadcom, Mr. Prasad served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) and previously led the VMware vSphere business. He drove the strategy, roadmap and delivery of the SDDC cloud platform that powers VMware Cloud and led a wide range of functions including Product Management, Engineering, Cloud Operations, SRE and Product Marketing.

Mr. Prasad has more than 30 years of experience in the enterprise software business across both R&amp;D and general management. Prior to VMware, he held senior and executive management positions with HPE and BMC Software.

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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.

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Rasmus Holtet Rüsz is leading Broadcom’s VCF Solution Architects Organization across Asia-Pacific &amp; Japan and is responsible for aligning the wider Solution Architect community and leading global engagement for APJ, building out Broadcom's strategy for technical solutions selling. Bringing greater consistency and optimizing our efforts across our strategic customer’s delivering outcome &amp; drive innovation. Rasmus' experience in technical leadership roles and collaboration, having lived and worked across EMEA and Asia place him well to support the Business Model Transformation to Consumption.

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Sylvain Cazard is the President for Asia Pacific and Japan, Broadcom. In this role, Cazard oversees the Broadcom software portfolio of business-critical enterprise software that modernizes, optimizes, and protects the world’s most complex hybrid IT environments. A 15-year VMware veteran and joining Broadcom through the acquisition of VMware, Cazard has held various senior leadership roles in both Asia Pacific and Japan as well as Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With more than 25 years’ hi-tech experience, Cazard started his career with SAP Business Objects in Europe, progressing through various management and sales positions in France and Iberia. Cazard graduated from the École Centrale with a degree in engineering, mechanics and computer science. He also holds an executive MBA in general management from Stanford University.

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