NetApp appoints Ganesan Arumugam as its Senior Director for APAC Channel Sales & Alliances. With nearly 30 years of experience in the technology sector, Ganesan is set to play a pivotal role in driving the company’s growth across Asia Pacific by expanding its partner sphere program and enhancing regional market outreach.

As a seasoned professional, Ganesan’s vast expertise in managing channels and sales at renowned global enterprises like Symantec, VMware, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, and Novell will be instrumental in shaping NetApp’s regional channel strategy. Ganesan will oversee the expansion of the company’s Partner Sphere program, which is designed to promote the adoption of unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions.

Andrew Sotiropoulos, Senior Vice President and General Manager for NetApp Asia Pacific commented, “Our channels and partner ecosystem remains the foundation for our Go-to-Market strategy and overall growth for APAC. Previously as our India Channel lead, Ganesan played a key role in building up a strong and reliable ecosystem made up of NetApp-managed and Distributor-managed partners, that extended well across the market and delivered consistent revenue growth. He will now step up to the APAC region and I am confident he will replicate his success here.”

Reporting directly to Andrew Sotiropoulos, Senior Vice President of APAC at NetApp, Ganesan will operate out of Singapore, a crucial hub for the company’s operations in the region.

Expressing his enthusiasm for the new role, Ganesan Arumugam stated, “We have on board the best partners that can bring NetApp’s intelligent data management solutions to the market. When our partners succeed, we succeed. I look forward to engaging more of our partners in my new role, and am honoured for the opportunity to deepen NetApp’s relationships with them across APAC.”