Forbes Guthrie
Director Of Product Management at Rancher by SUSE
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolForbes Guthrie is a product leader with 11+ years in product management and a track record of scaling enterprise infrastructure products from inception to multi‑billion dollar run rates. He has led large, deeply technical PM organizations at VMware—serving as Head of Product for vSphere and driving VMware Cloud Foundation to $1B+—and now directs product strategy for Harvester, Longhorn and SUSE’s virtualization efforts at Rancher by SUSE. Forbes combines hands‑on infrastructure engineering roots with cross-functional GTM orchestration, partner integrations (OEMs, cloud providers) and security/compliance leadership across complex releases and ecosystems. He’s known for translating messy technical constraints into unified, industrialized platforms and for repeatedly earning internal promotions through measurable revenue and customer growth. A former military troop commander with formal leadership training from Sandhurst, he brings disciplined program execution and mentorship to product teams. Based in California, he balances deep knowledge of hypervisor, Kubernetes runtimes and hardware partnerships with a founder‑style appetite for new challenges.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Commissioning Course Military and Strategic Leadership, Commissioning Course Military and Strategic Leadership at Royal Military Academy SandhurstMathematics for Business Analysis Computational and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics for Business Analysis Computational and Applied Mathematics at Glasgow Caledonian UniversityTroop Commanders Course Military Signals Communications, Troop Commanders Course Military Signals Communications at Royal School of Signals
Github Skills (32)
vms9
virtualbox9
hci9
citrix8
cloud-init8
sdn7
libvirt7
virtualization7
openstack7
k3d7
kubernetes6
hybrid-cloud5
infrastructure5
todolist5
translation4
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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