Dheeraj Pandey

Businessman and philanthropist

Dheeraj Pandey is an Indian-born American businessman. He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of DevRev, a company he co-founded with Manoj Agarwal, since 2020.2

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About

Previously, Pandey was the CEO of Nutanix, a company he co-founded with Ajeet Singh and Mohit Aron, from 2009 to 2020.

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Companies

Holdings

Stock this person has reported owning, from the forms officers and directors file with the SEC. See the biggest insider stakes.

Shares held

  • Adobe ADBE5,920 shares13$1.5M at $254.63Apr 15, 2026

As of each latest filing. The line shows shares held over time.

Recent filings

  • Apr 15, 2026Exercised options 900 shares of Adobe13
  • Apr 22, 2025Exercised options 633 shares of Adobe14
  • Apr 17, 2024Exercised options 836 shares of Adobe15
  • Apr 20, 2023Exercised options 672 shares of Adobe16
  • Apr 14, 2022Exercised options 615 shares of Adobe17

Early life and education

Dheeraj Pandey was born in Bihar, India. His father was a government employee, and his mother was a teacher. He obtained a BS in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1997. Later that year, he moved to the United States and earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Pandey is married and has three children.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson, entrepreneur.8

  • Since 2019Board member, Adobe6
  • 2009 to 2020Chief executive officer, Nutanix3 4
  • 2009 to 2020Board of directors member, Nutanix4 7
  • Date not recordedFounded Nutanix5

Pandey started his career with Trilogy as a software developer. Later in his career, he took on various roles, such as at Oracle Corporation as senior manager for software development, where he managed the storage engine group. He later held the positions of Director and Vice-President of Engineering at Aster Data Systems, which is now Teradata.

In 2009, Pandey, along with Ajeet Singh and Mohit Aron, co-founded Nutanix, a cloud computing company based in San Jose, California. The company went public in September 2016, listing on the Nasdaq. He was Nutanix CEO until 2020, when he retired. During his tenure, Nutanix transitioned from hardware to a software-focused firm in the hyper-converged infrastructure domain.

In 2020, Pandey started a new company, co-founding a CRM company, DevRev, with Manoj Agarwal. He is the CEO of DevRev. In 2024, on raising it's Series A round, DevRev reached unicorn status.

In 2022, Pandey, along with his wife Swapna, gave a gift of $10 million to the University of Texas at Austin for the development of personalized medicine.

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