NetApp Appoints Riccardo Di Blasio As Senior Vice President of North America Sales
January 04 2024 - 12:20PM
Business Wire
A leader in AI and ML, Di Blasio brings over 25
years of enterprise sales experience to drive NetApp’s revenue
growth in North America
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure
company, today announced Riccardo Di Blasio as the company’s new
Senior Vice President of North America Sales. Di Blasio brings over
25 years of experience building high-performance sales teams and
leading business transformation for companies in the software, data
protection and security industries. He most recently served as the
Chief Revenue Officer at Commvault, a leading provider of cyber
resilience and data protection solutions for hybrid cloud
organizations.
As the SVP of North America Sales, Di Blasio is responsible for
leading direct sales, channel sales, and demand generation teams
for the organization's largest region. Reporting to NetApp
President, César Cernuda, Di Blasio will continue aligning NetApp’s
business objectives in the U.S. and Canada, driven by customer’s
business needs.
“We’re thrilled that Riccardo is joining NetApp to drive next
stage growth in North America at a time when business
transformation is accelerating at a rapid pace," said César
Cernuda, President, NetApp. “Riccardo’s deep expertise in AI and
ML, his background in the storage market, and his proven track
record in driving sales make him the ideal leader to empower our
customers, no matter where they are in their cloud journey.”
Most recently, Di Blasio led all revenue-related activities at
Commvault as their Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to that role, Di
Blasio held various leadership roles with VMware and EMC. Di Blasio
is also a partner at Cortical Ventures, a Bay Area VC specialized
in AI technologies and was a member of the NASA iTech steering
committee.
“Joining NetApp, an iconic brand with a deep legacy of
innovation, is both an honor and a thrilling challenge,” said Di
Blasio. “My focus will be on strengthening our sales strategies,
deepening our customer engagements, and driving our team towards
new heights of success in North America. I am passionate about
empowering businesses through transformative technology, and I look
forward to playing a pivotal role in NetApp’s journey.”
About NetApp
NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining
unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps
solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every
customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing
observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management.
As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in
the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless
flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage
through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application
agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of
performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter
the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can
transform your data infrastructure to realize your business
possibilities.
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