Sirish Raghuram

Sirish Raghuram is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Platform9. He is also an angel investor. Having experienced virtualization, IaaS and cloud-native industry transitions first hand Sirish believes that open-source represents the future of enterprise hybrid clouds. Sirish's priorities are ensuring that customers are successful with their cloud initiatives, the Platform9 team - across employees and partners, scales to build an industry leading company, and Platform9's product evolves to enable new possibilities with hybrid clouds. Prior to founding Platform9, Sirish was an early engineer at VMware who went on to technical and management positions. His work at VMware led to several products, features and patents. Outside Platform9, Sirish follows cricket, makes his kids laugh, and builds his collection of fast lenses and unprocessed photos. His favourite books include the Harry Potter series, Blue Ocean Strategy, Inbound Marketing and Innovator's Dilemma.