health | January 08, 2026

Rajiv Ramaswami: Everything To Know About Nutanix New CEO

A seasoned technology industry executive, Rajiv Ramaswami joins the team of Nutanix as its new President and CEO, effective December 14, 2020. Prior to this, he held senior executive roles at VMware, Broadcom, Cisco, and Nortel. Regarded as an accomplished leader, Ramaswami began his career at IBM. As of today, Ramaswami has an impressive 30+ years track record of building and scaling businesses in software and network infrastructure.

For the past four years, he served as the CEO at VMware, the biggest competitor of Nutanix. After much analysis, the Board of Directors at Nutanix appointed Ramaswami as its new CEO.  Under his leadership, the team at Nutanix aims to seek sustained growth and improved efficiency in the emerging hybrid cloud infrastructure category. Listed below are a few facts about Nutanix’s new CEO. 

NameRajiv Ramaswami
Birthday1967
Age53
GenderMale
Height
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCEO of Nutanix
Net Worth$50.2 million
Salary$12,946,900 (annual)
Married/SingleMarried
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Twitter@RajivRamaswami

Great seeing @vmwarecloudaws showcased at AWS #reInvent. Lots of exciting momentum this year, including continued 100% YoY revenue growth. Thanks to the entire @AWScloud team for the great partnership!

— Rajiv Ramaswami (@RajivRamaswami) December 2, 2020

10 Facts on Rajiv Ramaswami

  1. Rajiv Ramaswami is a well-settled married man. However, information about his wife is yet to surface on public platforms.
  2. According to market screener, Rajiv Ramaswami is 53 years of age. It could mean that the business leader was born around the year 1967
  3. As reported, Rajiv Ramaswami has an estimated net worth of $50.2 million as of 30 November 2020. A large factor contributing to his income is his stock ownership. 
  4. Additionally, his previous employer VMware paid him a handsome salary of $12,946,900 per year. His pay structure at Nutanix is currently undisclosed.
  5. Wikipedia hasn’t featured the prominent leader on its content yet. A lot about him is recounted on the CRN website.
  6. Moving on to his education, Rajiv graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
  7. He is active on Twitter with 1688 followers. Now that he’s become the new CEO of Nutanix, his following may also increase rampantly. 
  8. Currently, Ramaswami resides in Palo Alto, California. 
  9. Apart from being an avid reader, Rajiv enjoys playing tennis and is a bridge fan.
  10. The executive succeeded Dheeraj Pandey as Nutanix’s new CEO. Pandey had previously announced his plans to retire after the appointment of a successor.