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Leaked email shows the top executives leading VMware's edge unit after Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition

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Sanjay Uppal, a vice president and general manager at Broadcom. VMware
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After Broadcom closed its $69 billion acquisition of VMware on November 22, it also did some reorganization.

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told employees in a recent email that VMware would operate with four divisions going forward: VMware Cloud Foundation, Tanzu cloud applications, Software-Defined Edge, and Application Networking and Security.

The Software-Defined Edge division is set to be led by Sanjay Uppal, a vice president and general manager. In an email viewed by Business Insider, Tan also named other top executives who are expected to report to Uppal and help lead the division.

Broadcom did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Broadcom laid off employees on Monday following the deal closing, BI previously reported. VMware already started cutting jobs prior to that.

You can read a full copy of the email about the Software-Defined Edge division below:

To Software-Defined Edge employees,
With Broadcom's acquisition of VMware now complete, I'm pleased to announce that Sanjay Uppal, Vice President and General Manager, will lead our Software-Defined Edge (SDE) Division.
SDE will focus on providing a distributed software stack to run edge workloads, and delivering software-defined WAN and cloud security services, for 5G/Telcos and distributed enterprises.
Direct reports to Sanjay will include:
•      Steve Wehrend, Technology
•      Saadat Malik, Technology
•      Chris Hill (UK), PS & Support Services
•      Aengus Linehan, Support
•      Tal Klein, Marketing
•      Sonali Bhatnagar, Product Services
•      Nick Watkins, Sales
•      Steve Woo, Technology Product Management
I look forward to working closely with our leaders in their new roles, and I appreciate all the hard work from both companies in planning for integration.
Regards,
Hock Tan

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Rosalie Chan is a senior editor for Business Insider's tech team. Previously, she covered cloud computing and enterprise tech, reporting on companies like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba Cloud, Atlassian, GitHub, VMware, Broadcom, and more. She has written extensively on topics including cloud computing, developer companies, open source, and sexism and sexual harassment in the tech industry. She has received the San Francisco Press Club award for continuing coverage for her reporting on sexism and sexual harassment in Silicon Slopes and the Excellence in Business / Consumer / Tech Reporting award from the Asian American Journalists Association for her investigation into the coding boot camp Holberton School. Most recently, she was an editor on the Business Insider investigative package, The True Cost of Data Centers, which received a George Polk Award and an honorable mention from SABEW.Rosalie joined Business Insider after working as a software engineer and freelance journalist. She studied journalism, computer science, and technology and business law at Northwestern University. Her work has previously appeared in TIME, the Huffington Post, VICE, Pacific Standard, Inverse, Chicago magazine, the Chicago Reporter, and more. She's based in San Francisco.