Mohit Aron

Mohit Aron
Born	1973 (age 43–44) Pathankot, India
Residence	Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Rice University
Years active	1997–present
Title	Founder & CEO of Cohesity Co-Founder & CTO of Nutanix

Dr. 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.

Aron graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University with a focus on distributed systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi India.

Aron has been attributed as the father of hyperconvergence 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.

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