NetApp Names William H. Miller Chief Information Officer
October 19 2016 - 8:00AM
NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) today announced the appointment of Bill
Miller as chief information officer (CIO).
In this role, Miller will lead NetApp’s IT organization, support
the company’s ongoing transformation, and work with peer
organizations to advance business strategy and technology
initiatives. He will also direct the NetApp on NetApp and
Customer-1 programs, which help the company’s engineering and field
organizations use, improve, and showcase the value of NetApp®
technology solutions to customers. This value includes
helping customers drive data management solutions within their own
IT environments by integrating data siloes, automating processes to
speed results, and removing barriers to scale that limit
growth.
“As an organization, the NetApp IT team demonstrates incredible
dedication to our customers and business partners and to
driving IT transformation,” said Ron Pasek, executive vice
president and chief financial officer for NetApp. “Bill Miller
brings a wealth of leadership, business, and technology experience
essential to the CIO role in a hybrid cloud era. We look forward to
Bill and the IT team’s continued leadership in delivering high
value to our organization and enabling IT transformation for our
customers in the years ahead.”
“NetApp is a clear leader in helping IT teams transform their
most essential capability—data management—to succeed in the
data-powered digital era,” said Bill Miller, CIO for NetApp. “I’m
energized to lead our company’s IT organization to accelerate the
technology and business initiatives that improve customer outcomes
and drive NetApp’s own business success.”
About William MillerBill Miller brings to
NetApp an extensive background in providing technology-centered
leadership and global business solutions to large technology
companies. He served most recently as senior vice president and CIO
at Broadcom Corporation. In this role, he led a world-class IT
organization focused on delivering value by leveraging cloud
computing applications and partners to maintain low-spend profiles
for best-in-class efficiencies.
Prior to working at Broadcom, Miller established Sabal Systems,
a high-tech consultancy focused on cyber security, IT industry
strategic product positions, billing, and recovery systems. His
company assisted CIOs and CEOs in their most challenging technology
missions, including cyber positioning for a major defense
contractor and product positioning for a top networking switching
supplier. He was also the CIO for Harris Corporation, focused on
worldwide delivery of IT services to more than 20,000 computing
clients across a global footprint, serving both federal and
commercial communities.
Miller is also active on multiple executive boards. His board
contributions include providing CIO advisory input for the dean of
engineering at University of Central Florida, for Information
Systems Associates at University of California Los Angeles, and for
University of California Irvine’s Center for Digital
Transformation. He also provides advisory input for the Information
Management Forum, a consortium of IT leadership.
About NetApp Leading organizations
worldwide count on NetApp for software, systems and services to
manage and store data. We help customers capitalize on the value of
their data in the hybrid cloud through our Data Fabric strategy,
data management expertise, portfolio and ecosystem. To learn more,
visit www.netapp.com.
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