Proofpoint Snags Former VMware President Sumit Dhawan as CEO

Dhawan Is Proofpoint's 3rd CEO Since March 2022; Interim Leader Thomas Back as CFO
Proofpoint landed top VMware lieutenant Sumit Dhawan as its new chief executive just days after the cloud and virtualization giant was acquired by Broadcom. The Silicon Valley-based email security firm said it liked Dhawan's track record of building security, cloud and end-user computing businesses.

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