Sumit Dhawan (MBA ’03) | July 2025

Dhawan was elected to the Moody’s Corporation Board of Directors, effective July 16, 2025. He will join the Board’s Governance & Nominating and Compensation & Human Resources committees. With the election of Dhawan, Moody’s Board will consist of ten directors.

Dhawan has over 25 years of experience building and leading security, cloud and end- user computing businesses. Dhawan has been the CEO of Proofpoint, Inc., a cybersecurity and compliance company, since November 2023. Prior to that, he held several senior executive positions at VMware, Inc., a cloud software company, culminating with his role as President. Previously, he served as CEO of Instart, a technology company that delivered web application performance and security services.