Omnissa Accelerates Global Market Momentum With Strategic Board Expansion and Executive Leadership Appointment

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Omnissa, a leading digital work platform company, today announced the appointments of Lynne Doherty and John Swainson to its board of directors, adding strategic depth to its board as the company enters its next stage of growth in the digital workplace market.

“Welcoming Lynne and John to the board marks an important step as Omnissa enters its next phase as an independent business,” said Shankar Iyer, CEO of Omnissa. “Their combined experience and expertise scaling global organizations and guiding long-term strategy will help accelerate our execution as the only company delivering a unified, AI-driven digital workspace platform to customers.”

The new board appointments come as Omnissa advances its unified digital workspace platform, reflecting a deliberate investment in board leadership experience to help guide long-term strategy and growth and further its commitment sound governance.

Lynne Doherty is an accomplished go-to-market executive with a proven track record of scaling enterprise technology companies from early growth through global, mass-scale operations. Her deep experience in driving durable revenue growth and organizational transformations across public and private-equity-backed companies brings strategic insight to Omnissa in key areas such as market expansion and operational optimization.

John Swainson brings decades of executive leadership experience, including serving as CEO of CA Technologies and president of the Dell Software group, following a 26-year career at IBM. His extensive background in software, along with service on numerous public and private technology boards, including Visa, provides Omnissa with seasoned guidance on long-term strategy, corporate governance, and innovation.

Establishing a strong foundation in talent and culture

Omnissa also recently announced the appointment of Suni Lobo as chief human resources officer (CHRO), underscoring the company’s continued investment in people and culture.

With more than 20 years of leadership experience, Suni brings a strong focus on building global teams and driving organizational transformation. Her recent experience in AI and transformation at AI-native platforms like Gong and Trustme.ai, combined with her prior experience at Cisco, SVB Financial Group, and Marqeta, offers Omnissa a modern lens on aligning organizational culture to business strategy.

Building on strong innovation

Nearly two years after becoming an independent company, Omnissa is accelerating innovation across the digital workspace market with recent announcements highlighting the availability of AI-driven platform capabilities, a new Vulnerability Defense security offering and technology partnerships that provide customers with more choice of platform integrations.

About Omnissa

Omnissa is the leading digital work platform company, empowering the world’s dynamic workforces to do their best work from anywhere. The company’s AI-driven digital workspace platform helps organizations and their people unlock exponential business value. Trusted by 26,000 customers worldwide and supported by more than 3,500 employees, Omnissa has been defining digital workspaces for more than 20 years. Omnissa was previously the End User Computing business unit of VMware and became an independent company in 2024. For more information, visit www.omnissa.com.