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Nutanix Appoints Eric Whitaker As Chief Legal Officer
[September 17, 2014]

Nutanix Appoints Eric Whitaker As Chief Legal Officer


(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 17 September 2014 Release date- 16092014 - SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Nutanix, the web-scale converged infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Eric Whitaker to the position of chief legal officer.



Eric is a high profile award-winning general counsel with more than 20 years experience in a range of industries. He joins Nutanix from SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK), where he was senior vice president and chief legal officer of the Fortune 500 company. Over his career, he has managed one of the top ranked patent portfolios in the world and developed an intellectual property strategy that resulted in more than $750 million in licensing revenues.

'Eric has extensive experience with all types of strategic transactions, securities compliance, litigation, intellectual property and international expansion - an invaluable range and depth of knowledge that will support us as we continue our rapid growth,' said Duston Williams, CFO, Nutanix. 'Eric brings a deep insight into the management and control of highly ambitious companies, and he will be a huge asset to us.' Eric joined SanDisk from Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) where he was general counsel and corporate secretary. Following the company's IPO, he structured and negotiated major corporate transactions, developed Tesla's intellectual property portfolio and formulated strategies for international growth. Prior to Tesla, Eric spent seven years as executive vice president of corporate strategy and general counsel at Lexar where he led all legal aspects of the company's rapid growth.


'Nutanix has already delivered massive advancements in converged infrastructure, and to be joining the company at this exciting stage in their development is a challenging and very exciting opportunity for me,' said Eric Whitaker. 'I am passionate about working with fast growing companies with pioneering technology, and look forward to overseeing a legal strategy that continues to drive Nutanix forward.' Eric was recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the '25 Leading General Counsel' in California in 2011. In 2012, he received the Legal Department of the Year award for his leadership of the legal team at Tesla Motors. In 2013, he received the Legal Department of the Year award for his leadership of the legal team at SanDisk. Eric also serves on NASDAQ's Silicon Valley Advisory Committee and the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School.

About Nutanix Nutanix delivers web-scale converged infrastructure to medium and large enterprises with its software-driven Virtual Computing Platform, natively converging compute and storage into a single solution to drive unprecedented simplicity in the datacenter. Customers can start with a few servers and scale to thousands, with predictable performance and economics. With a proprietary elastic data fabric and consumer-grade management, Nutanix is the blueprint for application-optimized and policy-driven infrastructure. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow up on Twitter @nutanix.

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