Raghu Raghuram is the CEO of US-based VMWare, a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps. As of 1st April 2021, his estimated net worth is at least $82.6 Million dollars, according to media reports. Raghu Raghuram’s annual salary as the new CEO is around $1 million as per VMware 8-K filing with the SEC.
He was born in India. Raghu completed his graduation from IIT Bombay and moved to the USA for further studies. Raghu Raghuram completed his Master's in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the year 1996 and also holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the (IIT Bombay) Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
He joined VMware’s Server Business unit in 2003 when the company was a 5-year-old startup. Raghu has replaced the company’s former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who contributed a lot to the organization, however, left it to take up Intel’s CEO job on 15th February.
Before the VMware company, Raghu worked in management and marketing roles at Netscape and Bang Networks, Inc.
Raghuram has roughly 30,777 Vmware stock units valued at around $29,944,312. In addition, he has sold VMW shares for $38,622,065 in the previous eight years (per wall mine). Raghuram was awarded Restricted Stock Unit and Performance Stock Unit awards with a total target value of $8 million in April 2021, as reported by LifestoryWiki.
He held multiple product management and solutions marketing positions from September 2003 to December 2009. Later he served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, and Enterprise Products, from December 2009 to March 2012. Eventually, he became the Executive Vice President of the company.
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