Mumbai, India – February 20, 2025 – Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, announced the appointment of Mayank Mishra as the new Regional Director of Sales for India and SAARC. In his new role, Mayank will lead Cohesity’s overall business strategy, sales operations, and growth strategy across India and the SAARC region.
Before this appointment, Mayank was the regional director of West and North India for Veritas. In his 17-year tenure with Veritas, Mayank held numerous leadership positions in enterprise sales across the financial, telecom, and pharmaceutical sectors. With his extensive industry experience, Mayank has led the successful delivery of several large and highly complex data protection deals in the South Asia region. Under his leadership, the enterprise sales team consistently exceeded their business revenue targets. Before Veritas, Mayank had successful roles in multi-national firms, including Oracle, Acision, and Tata Teleservices.
“By combining Cohesity’s scale-out architecture and strong AI-powered data security capabilities with Veritas’ broad workload support and partner ecosystem, our customers will gain more from the new combined portfolio offerings. We are committed to prioritizing our customers’ needs to providepeace of mind for their investments in our solutions,” said Mayank Mishra, Regional Director of Sales – India and SAARC, Cohesity.
“Mayank’s appointment comes at a defining moment as we continue to drive innovation and leadership in AI-powered data security and cyber resilience. With his strong track record in delivering business results and proven ability in leading high-performance teams to address pertinent cyber resiliency issues facing customers, I am confident that we will continue to be the preferred choice for data security with differentiated AI capabilities in India and SAARC region,” said Johnny Karam, Managing Director and Vice President of International Emerging Markets, Cohesity.