• Title: Chief Technology Officer, Service Provider & Edge Business Unit
• Base of operations: Reston, Virginia
• Start date at VMware: March 28, 2022

I try to lead with empathy. Great leaders lead from the heart and not just the head.

Mariam Sorond, Chief Technology Officer, Service Provider and Edge, VMware

VMware Citizen Philanthropists are active in their communities all year, adapting their efforts based on the needs of the nonprofits they serve and the communities of which they are a part. To celebrate Earth Month, we checked in with some of our colleagues who are Sustainability Ambassadors in their regions, to see what VMware’s culture of service means to them through the lens of community and Sustainability, one of the three main pillars of our 2030 Agenda and ESG commitment.

At South by Southwest (SXSW) 2022, Nicola Acutt, vice president of ESG at VMware, discussed the partnership between the City of Palo Alto and VMware on a prototype that will test the potential of microgrids to advance energy resiliency and sustainability efforts at the community and corporate level.

At VMware, we have established an annual tradition of celebrating Pi Day each March 14 by embracing our core EPIC2 values and getting geeky about giving back. Pi is woven throughout VMware Foundation programs as a way to make them memorable and uniquely VMware. As an example, each VMware person is eligible for $3.14 to $3,141.59 of 1:1 Matching Gifts for their nonprofits of choice each year.