Mohit Aron
Indian businessman
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Mohit Aron is an Indian-American computer scientist, businessman and entrepreneur.
Rice University
Mohit Aron | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pathankot, India |
| Alma mater | IIT Delhi Rice University |
| Title | Founder & former CEO of Cohesity Co-Founder & former CTO of Nutanix |
Early life and education
Aron was born about 1973 and grew up in Chandigarh.[1] to a Bania family. He graduated with a bachelor of technology in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1995.[2]
Aron graduated with an MS in 1998 and a PhD in computer science from Rice University in 2001 with a focus on distributed computing.[3] His advisor was Peter Druschel.[4]
Career
In 2000 Aron joined a company called Zambeel. He was a developer on the Google File System engineering project from 2003 to 2007.[5] He then worked at Aster Data Systems from 2007 to 2009. [6]
Aron is a promoter of the term hyper-converged infrastructure.[7][8]
Aron co-founded Nutanix in 2009.[9] He left in 2013 to found Cohesity.[10] Aron left Cohesity company in 2022.[11]
Awards and recognition
Aron was recognized by CRN Magazine in 2012 as one of the Top 25 Innovators of 2012.[12]