Mohit Aron

Dr. Mohit Aron is the Founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer of Cohesity. Widely recognized in enterprise computing as the pioneer of hyperconverged infrastructure, Aron earned his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 1995, followed by a Master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University in 2000 specializing in distributed operating systems. From 2003 to 2007, Aron served as a lead software engineer at Google, where he co-architected the foundational Google File System (GFS) that underpinned Google's distributed web indexing and processing clusters. In 2009, Aron co-founded Nutanix and served as its Chief Technology Officer, revolutionizing data center architectures by collapsing enterprise compute, storage, and virtualization into hyperconverged appliances. Recognizing that secondary enterprise data—encompassing backups, archives, file shares, and analytics—remained paralyzed by 'mass data fragmentation,' Aron stepped down from Nutanix in 2013 to found Cohesity. Serving as CEO for nine years and later transitioning to CTPO in 2022, Aron designed SpanFS and steered Cohesity into a global enterprise resilience titan protecting over 10,000 customers worldwide.