Nicola Peill-Moelter

Director - Sustainability Innovation, VMware

Nicola leads sustainability innovation at VMware in the Office of the CTO developing capabilities that help customers reduce the cloud infrastructure needed to run their data center workloads resulting in less energy use, carbon emissions and electronic waste. This enables VMware to have global-scale sustainability impact through aggregation across our worldwide customer base. Her role is the culmination of a 25-year career in high-tech industry (Akamai Technologies, TRW, Air Products & Chemicals) and academic training in engineering (Chemical Engineering/Computer Science Manhattan College) and environmental engineering science (PhD Caltech) that has evolved her belief that we can make the fastest progress addressing the world’s most urgent sustainability issues when sustainability and business value are aligned.

Prior to VMware, Nicola worked at Akamai Technologies in various positions including senior product manager, principal solutions engineer and senior director of environmental sustainability.