Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a ‘strategic review’ of end-user compute and Carbon Black products
VMware president Sumit Dhawan has left the newly-acquired org to join security software vendor Proofpoint as its CEO.
Proofpoint announced the appointment on Tuesday, praising Dhawan’s track record.
Proofpoint’s previous CEO, Ashan Willy, stepped down « to pursue an opportunity outside of the cyber security space » in October. CFO Rémi Thomas occupied the big chair until Dhawan’s appointment.
Dhawan is not the only departure from VMware. The Register has read many social media posts in which staff let go since the close of the Broadcom acquisition lament their departure, and those who remain celebrate what VMware achieved.
Some layoffs have been made official: the State of Colorado real-time list of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices – filings required of companies that make redundancies – mentions 184 job losses at VMware’s Broomfield offices. Accounts we’ve read suggest Broadcom has given workers 60 days’ notice – so at least the Christmas/New Year period won’t be entirely wretched for those let go.
