Shawn Rosemarin

VP, R&D Customer Engineering · Pure Storage

Shawn Rosemarin is currently Vice-President — R&D – Customer Engineering for Pure Storage. In this role Shawn works directly for the co-founder of the company (John Colgrove) focused on collaborating and co-creating with Pure’s largest enterprise customers, delivering customer-centric innovation that further simplifies and optimizes their data estates.

Prior to this role Shawn was the Worldwide Vice-President of Emerging Technology Solutions carrying direct accountability for Pure’s modern application and analytics solution. In addition, Shawn was the Worldwide Vice-President of Systems Engineering.

Prior to joining Pure Storage, Shawn served as the SVP & CTO for Hitachi Vantara and four years as a Chief Technologist at VMware.

Shawn’s passion is working closely with customers to help them transform digitally with everything from private/hybrid/multi-cloud to application modernization and emerging IoT solutions. An active seminar presenter, Shawn enjoys sharing experiences, simplifying complex concepts, and highlighting best practices.

Shawn holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Management Information Systems from Queen’s University in Canada.