Virtana Appoints Daniel Raskin as Chief Marketing Officer

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2026--

Virtana, provider of the deepest and broadest observability platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, today announced the appointment of Daniel Raskin as Chief Marketing Officer. Raskin brings more than 25 years of enterprise marketing leadership to Virtana at a time of significant momentum, as Global 2000 enterprises accelerate investment in AI infrastructure and demand observable, accountable operations at scale.

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“Daniel brings a rare combination of founder instinct, enterprise marketing leadership, and product operating experience,” said Paul Appleby, CEO of Virtana. “He has built and scaled marketing functions in some of the most demanding categories in enterprise technology, while directly shaping product strategy and growth. That combination is essential at this stage. As Virtana enters a period of accelerating market opportunity, his ability to translate complex, AI-driven infrastructure into clear, outcome-focused narratives will sharpen our market position and strengthen how we communicate value to customers, partners, and investors.”

Most recently, Raskin co-founded Mperativ, a venture-backed company that applied agentic AI to go-to-market data and marketing attribution, helping enterprises connect marketing investment directly to pipeline and revenue outcomes. Following Mperativ’s acquisition by Lative, Raskin joins Virtana to lead global marketing strategy, brand development, and demand generation.

Prior to Mperativ, Raskin held senior leadership roles at Sun Microsystems, McGraw-Hill, ForgeRock, and Kinetica. At ForgeRock, he led both marketing and product, joining when the company had $4M in ACV and playing a key role in scaling the business through its high-growth phase, prior to its public market debut at a $3B valuation. His track record spans enterprise middleware, identity and access management, cloud, and AI-powered data platforms, including building high-performing global teams, launching new business lines, and driving demand across startup and large-scale enterprise environments.

“Virtana is addressing one of the defining infrastructure challenges of this decade,” said Raskin. “As organizations forge into the AI era, applications have become distributed systems and AI workloads are proliferating rapidly, making observability the central control point for visibility, governance, and resilience at scale. Legacy application monitoring solutions cannot keep pace. Virtana delivers end-to-end observability with the data and context required to power agentic AI, enabling smarter automation, stronger resilience, and disciplined performance as enterprises scale AI.”

Raskin joins a Virtana executive team that includes Appleby, Chief Product Officer Amitkumar Rathi, who leads the company’s product strategy, and veteran CFO David Stack who joined Virtana in 2025 from Hubspot. He joins as the company accelerates its momentum in AI and hybrid cloud observability, helping drive awareness around several major announcements, including the launch of Virtana’s System-Aware MCP Server, AI-Native Application Observability, the extension of AI Factory Observability to Nutanix agentic AI environments, AWS Bedrock Guardrails environments, the Dell AI Factory and new research revealing that 75% of enterprises report double-digit AI failure rates as fragmented observability hits its breaking point. The company was also recently named Best Hybrid Cloud Solution by The Cloud Awards, recognizing its platform’s unmatched breadth and depth across hybrid enterprise environments.

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Virtana delivers the deepest and broadest observability platform for hybrid and multi-cloud, with full-stack AI observability spanning applications, services, data pipelines, GPUs, CPUs, networks, and storage. Powered by high-fidelity data and agentic AI, Virtana provides unmatched visibility across end-to-end IT services and AI workloads, correlating health, performance, cost, and user impact in real time. With advanced event intelligence and autonomous insight generation, Virtana delivers clarity no other provider can match. Trusted by Global 2000 enterprises and public sector organizations, Virtana helps IT operations and DevOps teams reduce risk, strengthen resilience, improve efficiency, and modernize with confidence across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Learn more at virtana.com.

Daniel Raskin joins Virtana as CMO to lead global marketing strategy, brand development, and demand generation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist who has said Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store 30 years ago, lied during the course of civil litigation against the Republican president, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The person who confirmed the existence of the investigation was not authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing inquiry and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The perjury investigation is being led by the federal prosecutors’ office in Chicago, and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has had no involvement because of his prior work as Trump’s personal attorney, the person said.

Lawyers for Carroll did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press on Thursday.

It’s the latest in a series of investigations the Trump administration Justice Department has opened into perceived adversaries of the president. The actions, including securing an indictment last month against former FBI Director James Comey, have raised alarm from Democrats and former officials that an institution meant to make prosecutorial decisions independent of the White House is being weaponized.

Carroll has said a flirtatious, chance encounter with Trump in 1996 at Bergdorf Goodman’s Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan ended violently. She said Trump slammed her against a dressing room wall, pulled down her tights and forced himself on her. Trump has called the allegations a “made-up scam," and he has attacked her motivations, saying they were politically driven or arose from a desire to promote her memoir.

A jury in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, awarding her $5 million. The following year, another jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in a defamation case related to Trump's social media attacks on her.

The Justice Department is scrutinizing a statement Carroll made in the course of the civil litigation that no one else was paying her legal fees. It later became public that a Chicago-based organization backed by Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, had helped fund Carroll's case. Trump's lawyers in the civil case accused Carroll of concealing that information, which they said called into question whether the case was politically motivated.

A court entry earlier this month said Trump won’t have to pay the award until the U.S. Supreme Court gets a chance to review the case or reject an appeal. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a request by one of Trump’s lawyers that it let the president delay the payment to Carroll, though it required that he post a $7.4 million bond to cover any additional interest costs, a request Carroll’s attorney had made.

The Carroll investigation was first reported by CNN.

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FILE - E. Jean Carroll exits the New York Federal Court after former President Donald Trump appeared in court, Sept. 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)