Pluralsight announced the appointment of Somit Goyal as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Reporting to Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard, Somit will be responsible for overseeing the development and execution of Pluralsight's cohesive strategy across core product and go-to-market organizations in support of the company's growth. Somit brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise and consumer software in various functions across sales, customer success, and business strategy to Pluralsight.

Somit comes to Pluralsight after spending more than a decade at Microsoft in various leadership roles, most recently as General Manager of Modern Work. In that role, Somit led global sales for Microsoft's productivity, collaboration, and employee experience product suites as well as the Surface family of devices.  Prior to Microsoft, Somit held product development, product management and strategy roles across companies like SAP, Oracle and AOL. Somit holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from INSEAD.