VMware has submitted a lawsuit in opposition to its former main functioning officer Rajiv Ramaswami in excess of his modern exit to consider up the main govt role at Nutanix.
Ramaswami moved to Nutanix previously this month, on the other hand VMware alleges he breached “legal and contractual obligations and obligations” to it in doing so.
“For at the very least two months ahead of resigning from [VMware], at the similar time he was working with senior leadership to shape VMware’s crucial strategic vision and direction, Mr. Ramaswami also was secretly assembly with at the very least the CEO, CFO, and apparently the overall board of directors of Nutanix to become Nutanix’s main govt officer,” VMware stated in a statement.
“He joined Nutanix as its CEO only two days right after leaving VMware.”
Ramaswami officially joined Nutanix on December nine, succeeding co-founder Dheeraj Pandey as CEO.
VMware claimed Ramaswami “demonstrated very poor judgement and experienced a distinct and extended interval of conflict of interest.”
“He really should have disclosed this conflict of interest to VMware so that the company could have taken measures to defend by itself, but he did not notify VMware, and thus deprived the company of the means to do so by concealing his Nutanix-connected things to do,” VMware billed.
VMware stated it anticipated employees to “honour their commitments to the company”.
“Executive officers really should be held to an even larger common,” it stated.
VMware additional that it experienced attempted to keep away from litigation but claimed Ramaswami and Nutanix “refused to engage … in a satisfactory fashion.”
The seller stated it was making an attempt to defend its brand and the “billions of dollars” expended on its roadmap and R&D.
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Nutanix stated it and Ramaswami experienced “absent previously mentioned and past to be proactive and cooperative with VMware all through the changeover”.
“VMware’s lawsuit seeks to make interviewing for a new career wrongful,” Nutanix stated in a statement.
“We view VMware’s misguided action as a response to shedding a deeply valued and revered member of its leadership staff.
“It is disappointing to see VMware’s management sue him just simply because he selected to go after an prospect to become a community company CEO.
“We feel that VMware’s action is practically nothing additional than an unfounded attempt to damage a competitor and we intend to vigorously defend this issue in court docket.”