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Sanjay Poonen

CEO and President (Cohesity, parent of former Veritas data protection business), Veritas Data Protection Business Now Part Of Cohesity

Search every verified Sanjay Poonen interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sanjay Poonen, CEO of Cohesity, recently spoke at the Atlanta High Tech Prayer Breakfast on September 16, 2026, where he delivered a keynote titled "Dare To Be A Daniel." During the address, he discussed his personal background, including his family's Christian faith in India and his father's work as a church planter. He also spoke about leadership principles, describing what he called "servant leadership" and stating that the most important people in his company are those serving customers directly, such as salespeople and engineers, while characterizing management roles as "bureaucracy." In an August 28, 2026 conversation with The Cube, Poonen discussed Cohesity's recent activities and industry positioning. He mentioned the company's Maestro product, announced in June, and described Cohesity as a leading cyber resilience and AI company. Poonen noted that the company has 200 exabytes of data from large customers across sectors such as banking, public sector, healthcare, and telecommunications, and he stated that Cohesity was the first in its space to have its code tested within Glasswing, with binaries already tested by some customers. He also discussed the company's scale-out architecture, which he said allows it to serve environments ranging from small manufacturing plants to large banks.

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“We have 200 exabytes because the largest companies in the world rely on us. They back up their data years and years and years. Banks, public sector, healthcare, telcos, so on and so forth. So that 200 exabytes of data has a lot of context in it.”

“this bank individual told me that he thinks he may change the priority from innovation to cyber protection because he doesn't know what mythos he's going to So I don't know I know Methos has not been rolled out to every bank. I know some joint customers are really close stages of of doing no I think this is wise advice and uh I think you know it is going to move the security discussion from not just detection and pre”

“IPO is an important milestone, but not the destination. It's really important first off for employees to realize yes we get liquidity but that comes with also some downsides. We have a bad quarter, stock may go down. Doesn't make us less of a company.”

“The beautiful thing about the US financial service financial system is if you can show cash flow which we are doing and you have an incredible story which the team really put together this combination is better than either two companies could have been on their own.”

“We can play cyber defense really well, but we have ideas in cyber offense. You don't want all of us going on offense against a country. We need the government to play cyber offense. And on his first point, what I was really delighted about was the point in the paper that talk about the government now playing a lot more on cyber offense.”

“Yea, if you back up for a second, Cohesity's mission has been to protect, secure, and provide insights into the data. We kind of think about it as in those three stages. And protection is all about building that zero trust platform, which got Cohesity started. We invented the way in which you could store, make that data the platform immutable, and protect it from ransomware attacks. Security, we announced some import”

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