Cohesity today has announced that Kirk A. Law has joined the company as senior vice president of research and development (R&D). In this role, Law has global responsibility for engineering, product management, and Cohesity’s ecosystem business.
The tech veteran brings more than 30 years of relevant experience to Cohesity with a passion for developing breakthrough products, scaling high-performing teams, enriching company cultures, and delighting customers and partners.
“Cohesity is a phenomenal company driven by customer-focused innovation, talented employees, exceptional leadership, and strong cultural values,” said Law. “We will continue to deliver next-gen solutions that can help organizations radically simplify data management, improve their security postures in the face of sophisticated ransomware attacks, benefit from AI-powered insights, and do more with data — their most valuable digital asset.”
Law’s technology expertise spans multiple sectors including data management, governance, and security, with an extensive history in systems engineering, intelligent automation software, and enterprise product development for on-premises and cloud deployments.
Before joining Cohesity, Law served as a senior vice president of development at Tableau Software, a Salesforce company. Prior to that, Law was the senior vice president of engineering at Primary Data. He also held leadership roles at SanDisk, NetApp, Cacheflow Systems Inc., and SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics Computer Systems). He began his career at the David Sarnoff Research Center, which at the time was an R&D center for the RCA Corp., where Law received several patents in digital TV processing technologies.
