Next-gen data management provider Cohesity has selected Kevin Delane, a veteran high-growth tech exec with IPO experience, to lead its revenue organization.
As the SoftBank-backed company’s Chief Revenue Officer, Delane will lead Cohesity’s sales and partner functions as it gears up for a potential IPO later this year. CEO Mohit Aron hinted that the company’s plans to go public were “not far off” in a March 2021 interview with Bloomberg.
Delane brings over 30 years of experience to his new role and most recently served as the VP of Worldwide Sales at Pure Storage. While with the data storage hardware and software tech company, he led go-to-market strategy, sales, and systems engineering functions and proved to be a central figure in its successful IPO in 2015. Before that Delane spent over 18 years at EMC, where he held leadership roles on the company’s sales team.
In Cohesity's hiring announcement, Aron highlighted Delane’s international business expertise and success in advancing global go-to-market strategies and stated he will be a key figure in accelerating the company’s global momentum.
In April 2020, Cohesity raised $250 million in a Series E funding round and a few months later the company announced a $3.7 billion valuation following a $147 million tender offer to employees who wanted the option to sell a portion of their equity. At the time of its Series E, the company said the funds would be used to build out R&D to better serve global companies and expand both its reach and awareness at home and abroad.
As the company gears up for an IPO it has brought on board a wealth of talent in the past few months with public company experience including a new CISO from Splunk and a Chief HR Officer with experience at Symantec (now NortonLifeLock), Cisco, Disney, and other major companies.
