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Home > Cloud Computing > VMware appoints Kit Colbert as CTO

VMware appoints Kit Colbert as CTO

VMware announced that the company has appointed Kit Colbert as the company's next Chief Technology Officer.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
September 14, 2021
2 min read
Kit Colbert, CTO of VMware

Enterprise software provider, VMware announced that Kit Colbert has been named VMware’s next Chief Technology Officer. Colbert joined the company in 2003 as the technical lead behind the creation, development, and delivery of the vMotion and Storage vMotion features in VMware vSphere.

Technical vision for the company

Raghu Raghuram, CEO of VMware
Raghu Raghuram, CEO of VMware

During his time at VMware, he served in multiple roles, including VMware’s Cloud CTO, General Manager of VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps business, CTO for VMware’s End-User Computing Business, and as the lead architect for the VMware vRealize Operations Suite. Raghu Raghuram, CEO of VMware said,

“It is with great pleasure that we welcome Kit into the position of CTO at VMware. Kit’s passion, proven technological savvy and excellent leadership capabilities will be instrumental in advancing our innovation engine and research and development efforts.”

In his new role, Colbert will be responsible for shaping the technical vision for the company, and the transformation to a cloud and subscription-centric R&D organization. His oversight includes advancing research and development efforts, overseeing the VMware Engineering Services team, the Design/UX team, and the company’s ESG commitments.

Who is Kit Colbert?

Kit Colbert, CTO of VMware
Kit Colbert, CTO of VMware

Kit Colbert is the new CTO of VMware. He holds a ScB in Computer Science from Brown University. He has worked as VP & GM of Cloud-Native App at VMware previously. He drived strategy and product development of third platform application solutions across the company.

He was also CTO of VMware End-User Computing business unit, Chief Architect and Principal Engineer for Workspace Portal, and the lead Management Architect for VMware vSphere Operations Suite. He is interested in politics, running and snowboarding.

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Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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