Fathi will report directly to CEO Pat Gelsinger and be responsible for the company’s product development and programs, academic partnerships and R&D community, VMware said Wednesday.
Gelsinger said Fathi will work to help the company address information technology demands across VMware’s data center for customers.
The 30-year computer industry veteran most recently led a team of product developers at VMware.
Fathi served as an SVP at Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) with responsibility in operating systems and networking protocol before he joined VMware in 2012.
Prior to joining Cisco, he worked at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for 12 years and his time there included service as corporate VP of development for the Windows operating system division.