NetApp Appoints Market Growth and Revenue Operations Leader, Dallas Olson to Chief Commercial Officer Role
07 May 2024 - 1:30AM
Business Wire
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure
company, today announced Dallas Olson as the company’s new Chief
Commercial Officer, reporting to NetApp’s President, César Cernuda.
Olson brings over 25 years of experience building high-performance
teams responsible for planning, operations, enablement, engagement,
and go-to-market strategies.
As NetApp’s CCO, Olson will oversee sales strategy driving
business growth in key areas including AI and Keystone through
specialist teams, enhance market presence, optimize sales models,
foster strategic partnerships, champion a customer-centric
approach, and drive initiatives to maintain NetApp’s position as a
market leader primed for accelerated growth.
“We’re thrilled for Dallas to join NetApp at a time of momentum
for the company as we empower enterprises to make their data
infrastructure intelligent with unified data storage built for
innovation in the era of AI," said César Cernuda, President at
NetApp. “Olson's previous achievements in fostering
high-performance acceleration for multinational corporations, his
adept leadership in guiding large organizations through tumultuous
market shifts, and his track record of driving triple-digit growth
for his teams render him the perfect candidate to provide
exceptional value to our customers.”
Most recently, Olson led global go-to-market strategy and
revenue operations for Cisco. Before that role, Olson served as
Cisco’s Chief Operations Officer and Vice President for the
Americas where he was responsible for strategy, planning,
operations, enablement, engagement, and go-to-market efforts. Prior
to that he held various leadership roles within Cisco including
leading strategy & planning for its US Commercial group and
leading enterprise software teams for Cisco’s WebEx Technology
Group. Before his tenure at Cisco, Olson served as the Executive
Director of Misys Allscripts’s corporate development team where he
led merger, acquisition, and corporate strategy and was previously
the global sales lead at DHL.
“Joining NetApp is an exciting and unique opportunity,” said
Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp. “NetApp’s rich
history of enabling innovation, and its ambition to continue to do
so is inspiring. My focus will be on delivering a go-to-market
strategy that continues to provide exceptional value to customers,
and to turbo charge the company’s global growth trajectory. I look
forward to making an impact and delivering meaningful change.”
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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