Forbes Guthrie
Director Of Product Management at Rancher by SUSE
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorForbes Guthrie is a seasoned product management leader with over a decade of experience guiding cross-functional teams from startups to global enterprises. At VMware, he led the vSphere product line as Director (and acting Senior Director), overseeing ESXi and the Kubernetes runtime (TKG), driving a $4B annual revenue pillar and directing security, certification, and compliance programs across vSphere and VCF. In 2021-2022, he led VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with a 16-person PM roster, turning it into a $1B+ run rate product and expanding the customer base to over 1,000. Earlier, as VVD lead, he helped align VVDs with VCF, promoted three times, and boosted VCF revenue while achieving an NPS of 90%. As of 2024, he joined Rancher by SUSE as Director of Product Management, steering Harvester and Longhorn and shaping SUSE's virtualization strategy for on-prem and cloud-native workloads. Based in California, Forbes also contributed to virtualization education as the long-standing vReference blogger, blending deep technical know-how with strategic product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (36)
vms9
virtualbox9
hci9
citrix8
baremetal8
cloud-init8
sdn7
libvirt7
virtualization7
openstack7
k3d7
kubernetes6
hybrid-cloud5
infrastructure5
todolist5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
forbesguthrie/vReferenceCards
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
forbesguthrie/forbesguthrie.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:35 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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