• Karen Egan, VMware's vice president of global support, is leaving the company after 15 years. 
• Egan's resignation comes amid an employee exodus triggered by Broadcom's $61 billion buyout.
• Sales and support VP Shekar Ganapathy will take over for Egan while the firm finds a replacement.

Another high-level executive has announced their departure from cloud computing firm VMware. It's the latest in an exodus of employees following chip giant Broadcom's $61 billion planned acquisition of the firm.

Karen Egan, a 15-year veteran of VMware and senior vice president of global support, announced on Thursday that she was leaving the cloud computing firm, according to a leaked email seen by Insider. Egan is leaving to take a role as a chief customer officer at an undisclosed firm.

"It is important to reiterate that global support is on the right path," she wrote, "this does not change with my departure," Egan wrote.

Egan is the most recent high-profile departure since vice president of global and partner sales Sandy Hogan left in June. Shekar Ganapathy, a vice president of sales and support, will take over for Egan during the search for a replacement, the email said. Mark Fitzgerald, a senior director of support, will take on additional tasks to support Ganapathy.

In her role as senior vice president of global support, Egan oversees critical customer accounts and support escalations for all VMware clients. Egan has been at VMware for over 15 years, joining from mobile phone firm Motorola where she was a customer support manager. Her final day will be on September 30. 

The Broadcom-VMware buyout agreement is currently being reviewed by European Union regulators, but expected to close sometime next year. VMware had the following comment: "Karen Egan has made a personal career decision to leave the company.  We thank Karen for her passion and commitment and wish her well."

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