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Publication Date: 2025-09-19 07:00:00
Former Intel Executive Vice President and CTO Greg Lavender left his role at the chipmaker in June. On Thursday, he was named to Nutanix’s board of directors.
Nutanix has added engineering heavyweight Greg Lavender—a veteran of some of the largest technology vendors—to its board of directors.
Lavender has designed hardware and software products for Intel, VMware, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Citi. He also serves on the board of Arista Networks.
In a statement, Nutanix President and CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said Lavender can help the company achieve its vision of becoming the de facto platform for running applications and AI and managing data anywhere.
“Greg has a deep engineering background with experience from both the vendor and customer perspective,” Ramaswami said. “He is a technology visionary who has a strategic understanding of the tech stack, generative AI and other modern, cloud native-based applications, as well as a practical knowledge of how to best serve customers. He will undoubtedly prove invaluable as a member of our board.”
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Lavender most recently worked as CTO of Intel, where he was hand-picked by former CEO Pat Gelsinger to lead the chip giant’s Software & Advanced Technology Group,…
