NetApp, a hybrid cloud data services and data Management Company, appoints Sanjay Rohatgi as its Senior Vice President and General Manager for Asia pacific (APAC). In his new role, Sanjay is expected to lead the NetApp’s business and operations for this region, and to drive the customer and business growth. He would also be responsible to strengthen the engagement with its channel partners to assist the company to deepen its customer engagement and success. Based in Singapore, Sanjay will report to Henri Richard, Executive VP, Worldwide Field and Customer Operation, NetApp.

Commenting on the appointment, Henri states, “Sanjay is a proven leader who aligns market delivery with business strategy, especially in companies experiencing rapid growth and transformation in the complex APAC region,” he adds, “His skills in partnering with APAC teams and understanding the APAC business landscape will be a key to driving our continued growth. We are excited to have Sanjay as part of the NetApp team”.

Sanjay possesses more than two decades of experience in assisting enterprise and commercial customers, with their digital transformation efforts to drive business growth.Before joining NetApp, he was associated with Symantec as its Senior Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific and Japan. Prior to that, Sanjay served as Managing Director at Cisco telecom business in India. Apart from these, he has also held several senior leadership positions at Nortel Networks in Hong Kong, Telstra & BHP Billiton in Australia and British Telecom in UK

Sanjay is a proven leader who aligns market delivery with business strategy, especially in companies experiencing rapid growth and transformation in the complex APAC region

Talking about his new role, Sanjay comments, “The speed and scale with which enterprises in this diverse market and region modernize and innovate digitally is astonishing. Connecting their data to any cloud, anywhere, is crucial to leapfrog the competition, and there is no better partner for that than NetApp. I’m excited about the opportunity to expand NetApp’s business and, thanks to our data fabric vision; I believe we can bring NetApp to even greater heights”.