Omnissa names Amit Singh CEO as it talks up agentic endpoint push

Omnissa has appointed Amit Singh as chief executive, putting a heavyweight cloud and security executive in charge as the digital work platform vendor leans into what it calls the era of “agentic endpoints”.

The company announced the move in a PR Newswire release dated 28 September 2026. Singh’s appointment is effective immediately, according to Omnissa. He succeeds Shankar Iyer, who the company said recently stepped down as CEO to pursue other opportunities.

The primary company announcement describes Singh as a former president of Palo Alto Networks and a co-founder and former president of Google Cloud. Omnissa said he has more than 35 years of experience and has helped build major enterprise technology platforms.

That is the headline move. The subtext is AI.

Omnissa is pitching the endpoint, laptops, phones and managed devices, as a key control point for the next wave of enterprise automation. Its announcement says Singh will accelerate the company’s momentum and lead it into an “era of agentic endpoints”.

A secondary report from IT Europa, also dated 28 September 2026, framed the appointment as Omnissa hiring a new CEO to tackle the challenges of AI. The report described Omnissa as a workspace optimisation and end-user computing company.

IT Europa reported that Omnissa was previously VMware’s end-user computing business unit, and was spun out in 2024 after Broadcom acquired VMware. The same report said the company is “said to” serve more than 15,000 enterprise customers and tens of millions of endpoints. That customer and endpoint figure is attributed to the secondary account, not independently verified here.

According to IT Europa, Omnissa’s platform spans unified endpoint management, virtual desktops and applications, digital employee experience, and endpoint security.

In comments reported by IT Europa, Singh said Omnissa was at a pivotal moment for the company and the industry. He said the shift to agentic AI was changing how work gets done, and that the endpoint was at the centre of that transformation.

The report also quoted Singh arguing that within a year, every laptop and phone managed by an enterprise would be an agentic endpoint, running dozens of AI agents with the identity and permissions of the person they work for. He compared the shift to the arrival of phones and personal devices in the enterprise, when organisations extended existing management platforms rather than building entirely new ones.

That is a bold thesis, and one Omnissa clearly wants to own. The company’s bet appears to be that if AI agents start acting on behalf of workers, the tools used to manage devices, credentials, telemetry, traffic and remediation become even more important.

For CIOs and CISOs, the pitch is simple: AI agents are coming to endpoints, whether security teams are ready or not. Omnissa wants to be the layer that makes saying yes less risky.