Carl Eschenbach

Carl Eschenbach is the Chief Executive Officer of Workday and a Venture Partner at Sequoia Capital, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to joining Workday as Co-CEO alongside Aneel Bhusri in December 2022, he spent fourteen years at VMware, ultimately serving as President and Chief Operating Officer. During his executive tenure, he helped scale the virtualization software provider from 200 to 20,000 employees and increased annual revenue from $31 million to over $7 billion. As a General Partner at Sequoia Capital from 2016 to 2022, he focused on growth-stage enterprise investments and held board seats at prominent public technology firms including Snowflake, Zoom, and Palo Alto Networks. After assuming the sole CEO role in February 2024, Eschenbach currently focuses on expanding Workday's enterprise cloud platform through artificial intelligence monetization and global go-to-market operations.