Employees at Cray rank Peter Ungaro in the Bottom 35% of CEOs in Seattle. Comparatively, employees at Nutanix rank Rajiv Ramaswami in the Top 10% of CEOs in San Francisco. Employees rate their CEO differently based on the frequency of interaction, ability to affect company culture, and drive measurable results.

Peter Ungaro

CEO of Cray

BIO: Mr. Peter J. Ungaro has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Cray Inc. since August 8, 2005 and March 2005 respectively. Mr.Ungaro served as Senior Vice President for sales, marketing and services of Cray Inc. from September 20, 2004 to August 2005. Mr.Ungaro served as Vice President, worldwide deep computing sales for IBM since April 2003. He led global sales of all IBM server and storage products for high performance computing, life sciences, digital media and business intelligence markets. Mr. Ungaro coordinated IBM solutions teams that included sales, technical, marketing and product development personnel. Mr. Ungaro served as Vice President, worldwide high performance computing sales of IBM since 1999 and before then he held a number of other sales leadership positions after joining IBM in 1991. Mr. Ungaro was responsible for creating and implementing IBM's worldwide marketing and sales strategy, expanding opportunities for current and future Cray products, collaborating closely with product development and other technical leaders and continually enhancing the capabilities of Cray's global sales force. Mr. Ungaro has been a Director of Cray Inc. since August 8, 2005. Mr.Ungaro received a B.A. in business administration from Washington State University in 1990.

Rajiv Ramaswami

CEO of Nutanix

BIO: Rajiv is the President and CEO of Nutanix. He joined in December, 2020 from VMware, where he served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services. Prior to this role, Rajiv led VMware’s Networking and Security business, one of the fastest-growing units in the company, as executive vice president and general manager. Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom, where he established Broadcom as a leader in data center, enterprise and carrier networking. In his prior General Manager roles at Cisco, he led multibillion dollar product lines in switching, data center and storage and optical networking. Earlier in his career, he held various leadership positions at Nortel, Tellabs and IBM. Rajiv earned his BTech in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and his Master’s and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and holds 36 patents, primarily in optical networking.