Mohit Aron

Mohit Aron (born 1973), is a businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Cohesity, Inc. and was previously the co-founder and CTO of Nutanix.
Early life and education.
Aron graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University with a focus on distributed systems. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi India.
Career.
Aron has been attributed as the father of hyper-converged infrastructure and has over 15 years of experience in building scalable, high-performance distribution systems. Aron founded Cohesity in 2013 and co-founded Nutanix in 2009. Prior to co-founding Nutanix, Aron was at Google as a lead developer on the Google File System engineering project.
Aron was recognized by CRN as The Top 25 Innovators Of 2012 during his time at Nutanix. In July 2016, CRN recognized Cohesity on the list of 10 Storage Emerging Vendors You Need To Know and listed as one of the Top 25 Disruptors of 2016 in August 2016.