His immediate predecessor was Andrea Lagan who held the same title from March 2028 through April 2019 because she became COO. Lagan left in January 2020 to become chief customer and people officer at BetterWorks. Before Lagan, Adrian Ivanov held the position from April 2016 through April 2017. Bajtos was with VMWare from February 2009. He was chief customer officer from February 2016 until he took the new job.