Monica Kumar leads the global marketing of Hitachi Vantara. She is a champion of synergy, focused on growth and go-to-market strategies that spotlight how Hitachi Vantara is the trusted partner for achieving business, transformation, and sustainability objectives.

Monica has more than 20 years of enterprise software and services experience including product marketing, partner marketing, and technical marketing to database and cloud marketing. Prior to joining Hitachi Vantara, Monica was SVP, Global Marketing and Cloud GTM at Nutanix. During her tenure at Nutanix, she led the simplification of a complex product and solutions strategy, and the scaling and transformation for a $1B+ cloud portfolio. Previously, Monica spent more than 20 years at Oracle, serving in a wide variety of roles, most notably as the CMO of the multi-billion-dollar Oracle Database business.

A passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, Monica believes empathy is critical for creating innovation that matters to communities, customers, and partners. She works with several non-profit organizations, is one of the board of directors at Watermark and City Year Silicon Valley/San Jose and is a Founding Circle Member of Neythri.