Mohit Aron

Mohit Aron
Born
Pathankot, India
Alma materIIT Delhi
Rice University
TitleFounder & former CEO of Cohesity
Co-Founder & former CTO of Nutanix

Mohit Aron is an Indian-American computer scientist, businessman and entrepreneur.

Early life and education

Aron was born about 1973 and grew up in Chandigarh.[1] to a Bania family. He graduated with a bachelor of technology in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1995.[2]

Aron graduated with an MS in 1998 and a PhD in computer science from Rice University in 2001 with a focus on distributed computing.[3] His advisor was Peter Druschel.[4]

Career

In 2000 Aron joined a company called Zambeel. He was a developer on the Google File System engineering project from 2003 to 2007.[5] He then worked at Aster Data Systems from 2007 to 2009. [6]

Aron is a promoter of the term hyper-converged infrastructure.[7][8]

Aron co-founded Nutanix in 2009.[9] He left in 2013 to found Cohesity.[10] Aron left Cohesity company in 2022.[11]

Awards and recognition

Aron was recognized by CRN Magazine in 2012 as one of the Top 25 Innovators of 2012.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rich Karlgaard (December 10, 2020). "How Mohit Aron's Indian Hometown Inspired His Unicorn Company". Forbes. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  2. ↑ "In step with the times, IITs accept stocks as alumni donations". The Indian Express. November 5, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Entrepreneur Mohit Aron '98 Announces New Data Storage Startup". Rice University. June 17, 2015. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  4. ↑ Carlyn Chatfield (December 12, 2017). "Mohit Aron: Learning to Invent Knowledge". Rice University CS department. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  5. ↑ Garry Kranz (October 19, 2015). "Cohesity founder: Secondary data needs a new approach". TechTarget. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ Bort, Julie (March 1, 2017). "Why This Entrepreneur Left His Company Before Its $2 Billion IPO". Inc. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
  7. ↑ Bob Brown (June 21, 2015). "Happy Father's Day, from the Father of Hyperconvergence". Network World. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ Bob Brown (June 17, 2015). "Google-infused storage startup Cohesity reveals itself". Network World. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  9. ↑ Kevin McLaughlin (June 29, 2016). "Storage Startup Cohesity Says It's Attracting Enterprises, Unveils Wave Of Features To Get More On Board". CRN Magazine. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Company Overview of Cohesity, Inc". Bloomberg. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  11. ↑ Novet, Jordan (August 2, 2022). "VMware veteran takes helm of pre-IPO software company Cohesity, though market debut is on hold". CNBC. Retrieved June 30, 2026.
  12. ↑ Jack McCarthy (March 16, 2012). "The Top 25 Innovators Of 2012". CRN Magazine. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
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