Omnissa appoints Amit Singh as Chief Executive Officer

Omnissa has appointed Amit Singh as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Shankar Iyer, who stepped down.

Singh takes over at the privately held software company, which focuses on digital workspace and endpoint management tools and serves 26,000 customers worldwide with a workforce of 4,000 employees.

His appointment puts a veteran enterprise technology executive at the head of a company seeking to strengthen its position in software for managing devices, virtual desktops, applications and digital employee experience tools. He will assume the role immediately.

Before joining Omnissa, Singh was President of Palo Alto Networks. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly a decade at Google, where he was a co-founder and President of Google Cloud, and more than 20 years at Oracle in product, engineering, sales and strategy roles.

His arrival comes as workplace technology and cybersecurity software groups respond to the spread of artificial intelligence tools in large organisations. Omnissa has recently introduced a new set of AI-focused products aimed at giving customers more oversight of increasingly autonomous workplace systems.

Omnissa says it serves more than 15,000 enterprise customers and manages tens of millions of endpoints, while its broader customer base totals 26,000 worldwide. Its platform spans unified endpoint management, virtual desktops and applications, digital employee experience and endpoint security.

Market focus

Endpoint management has become a closely watched part of the enterprise software market as companies seek tighter control over employee laptops, phones and other connected devices. That focus is widening as businesses test AI agents that can act using a worker's identity, access rights and data.

Omnissa argues that the endpoint will become a main control point for companies trying to manage the operational and security risks of those systems. Singh made that case in his first comments as Chief Executive Officer.

"I am thrilled to join Omnissa at such a pivotal moment for the company and the industry," said Amit Singh, Chief Executive Officer of Omnissa. "Omnissa has established itself as the clear leader in digital workspace technologies, with a world-class platform, an incredible team, and a customer base that includes some of the world's most demanding enterprises. The shift to agentic AI is transforming how work gets done, and the endpoint is at the center of that transformation. I look forward to leading this team as we continue innovating and delivering products that will help our customers and partners manage and secure this next era of work."

He then outlined a more detailed view of how AI agents could change endpoint management requirements inside large companies.

"Within a year, every laptop and phone an enterprise manages will be an agentic endpoint, running dozens of AI agents acting with the identity and permissions of the person they work for," Singh said. "The last time a new kind of actor arrived uninvited in the form of phones and personal devices, enterprises extended the management platform they already had rather than building a new one. Agents are a similar shift. Omnissa already has the agent on the device, the credentials, the traffic, the telemetry and the remediation; our job now is to extend all of it to the agent and make it safe for CIOs and CISOs to say yes."

Board backing

Omnissa's board cited Singh's record at larger technology groups as a reason for the appointment. The company is backed by KKR, whose representative on the board said Singh had helped build major enterprise software platforms over the past two decades.

"Amit has helped build two of the defining enterprise platforms of the last 20 years," said Angad Singh, Co-Head of Software Private Equity in North America at KKR and a member of Omnissa's Board of Directors. "Omnissa manages the devices where enterprise work happens. The company is uniquely well positioned as AI agents increasingly handle that work and every enterprise considers how to safely harness AI technology. Amit is the right leader to help Omnissa make the most of this tremendous opportunity."

At Palo Alto Networks, Singh was part of a period of sharp expansion in which the cybersecurity company launched several businesses that each reached more than USD $1 billion in annual revenue. During his tenure, Omnissa said, the group's market value increased fivefold and it became the first cybersecurity company to reach USD $100 billion in value.

That background may prove relevant as the boundary between workplace software and security software becomes less distinct. Device management vendors have been moving beyond administration into compliance, visibility and threat response, particularly as employees work across multiple devices and locations.

Omnissa said its products were recently ranked first across four use cases in Gartner's inaugural Endpoint Management Tools 2026 report: endpoint management, virtual desktops and applications, digital employee experience and endpoint security. The company has presented that breadth as a differentiator in a market where customers increasingly want to reduce the number of software suppliers they use.

Singh also founded abovecloud9.ai, a business that applies AI to meditation and mental well-being programmes in partnership with the Art of Living Foundation. He holds a master's degree in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.

Omnissa's immediate task under its new Chief Executive Officer will be to show that established endpoint management software can adapt to a workplace in which AI systems take on a larger operational role while still meeting the control and security demands of large corporate technology teams.