They told her the staffing budget is to be cut 50%, and she didn't want to have spent the last few years building a team only to destroy now it.
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Wonder how many of the Cork team she will take to Cohesity?
Leaked VMware memo reveals its global support VP is the latest exit in an employee exodus amid the Broadcom buyout
- by Jessica Xing and Jacob E. Robbins, Aug 28, 2022*
- Karen Egan, VMware’s vice president of global support, is leaving the company after 15 years.
- Egan’s resignation comes amid an employee exodus triggered by Broadcom’s $61 billion buyout.
- Sales and support VP Shekar Ganapathy will take over for Egan while the firm finds a replacement.
Another high-level executive has announced their departure from cloud computing firm VMware. It’s the latest in an exodus of employees following chip giant Broadcom’s $61 billion planned acquisition of the firm.
Karen Egan, a 15-year veteran of VMware and senior vice president of global support, announced on Thursday that she was leaving the cloud computing firm, according to a leaked email seen by Insider. Egan is leaving to take a role as a chief customer officer at an undisclosed firm.
“It is important to reiterate that global support is on the right path,” she wrote, “this does not change with my departure,” Egan wrote.
Egan is the most recent high-profile departure since vice president of global and partner sales Sandy Hogan left in June. Shekar Ganapathy, a vice president of sales and support, will take over for Egan during the search for a replacement, the email said. Mark Fitzgerald, a senior director of support, will take on additional tasks to support Ganapathy.
In her role as senior vice president of global support, Egan oversees critical customer accounts and support escalations for all VMware clients. Egan has been at VMware for over 15 years, joining from mobile phone firm Motorola where she was a customer support manager. Her final day will be on September 30.
The Broadcom-VMware buyout agreement is currently being reviewed by European Union regulators, but expected to close sometime next year. VMware did not respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/vmware-vice-president-global-support-leaving-leaked-email-karen-egan-2022-8
For those asking, Karen worked in the LIGMA BU
Can anyone explain who is Karen? Which BU does she belong to? What kind of team does she lead? An SDE team? An SRE team? or some other kind of team?
How much staff do you need to email a customer "Please send logs" every two days until they figure out how to fix the issue themselves?
Just keep ignoring the signs around you its ok.... you will be ok i am sure of it!
We should just ask Karen and then believe the complete opposite (don't forget she's with us in the broadcom acquisition for the long haul)
@nle+1isYiYdz. keep your head in the sand....
This can’t be a serious statement… clearly the person can’t reveal the source because that puts them at risk of getting fired.
There are a whole bunch of things that people here have said can’t be true because there’s no source, that have ended up being true. i.e. there were no bidders against Broadcom during the go-shop, Broadcom has been getting involved in and blocking certain deals, etc.
I have no doubt that this is the case here too.
I heard the same from well known sources and other VPs were told the same.
who's karen?
You know, people may as well stop posting stuff like this as people won’t believe it without source anyway.