VMware names India-born Raghu Raghuram as CEO from June

Cloud and virtualisation software company VMware has named India-born company veteran Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram as its next CEO from June.

The development may have triggered the exit of his India-born colleague Sanjay Poonen, who said he was quitting after seven years at the Dell-owned company.

Raghuram and Poonen were chief operating officers at VMware and both had been in the race for the top job, which fell vacant after former CEO Pat Gelsinger joined chip maker Intel as chief executive in January.