INSIGHT 2025 Keynote, Day 2 - Innovation, In Action: Turning Vision into Execution with an Intelligent Data Infrastructure

c�sar Cernuda, President of NetApp, has led NetApp’s integrated go-to-market organization since July 2020, delivering on the company’s promise to meet customers wherever they are on their digital-transformation journeys by providing the superior products, specialist skills, and services they need to architect, build, and manage their data fabrics. c�sar joined NetApp following a long career at Microsoft, where he served as president of Microsoft Asia Pacific, president of Microsoft Latin America, and global corporate vice president of the brand. Having walked in the shoes of NetApp’s enterprise customers, he brings a customer-centric perspective to all he does as president. c�sar serves as the Chairman of the ESG committee at Gestamp, an international organization dedicated to the automotive industry; as an advisory board member of Endeavor and AmChamSpain. c�sar also serves as the international advisory board member of IESE Business School – University of Navarra.

Don Foster is the Chief Technology Officer at NetApp where he leads the GROE Go-To-Market CTO organization. Don's tenured career in technology around data management and storage enables his strong leadership abilities to influence what NetApp builds in products and services, technical excellence in field engineers, grow the business, and align the company with solid GTM execution with customer interests always within focus.\n\nThrough his years of experience in the field, Don has built a strong reputation as a natural communicator and respected expert in data management, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery planning. His technical experience and business acumen have provided him with a unique skill set that enables him to successfully address client needs through products, solutions, and content.

Sandeep Singh is a driven, passionate, creative business leader with a proven track record of leading business and product strategy, building innovative products, managing high-performance organizations, and delivering business results at startups and Fortune 500 technology companies. Prior to joining NetApp, Sandeep spent four years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in multiple roles, including Vice President of Product Management for Data Infrastructure, Vice President of Marketing for HPE Storage, and CMO for Zerto, an HPE company. Sandeep joined HPE from Pure Storage, where he led product marketing for FlashArray, and helped the company scale from pre-IPO $100M run rate to a public company with greater than $1B in revenue. Prior to Pure, Sandeep led product management and strategy for 3PAR, an enterprise storage company, from pre-revenue to greater than $1B in revenue, including four-year tenure at HP post-3PAR acquisition.

Gagan Gulati is SVP and GM of the Data Services business at NetApp, where he leads the product and engineering teams, and the overall P&L responsibilities across the company’s cyber resilience and AI portfolio to drive NetApp’s vision of an intelligent data infrastructure company.\n\nGagan believes that data is fundamental to every organization’s success and has spent the last 25 years building billion-dollar businesses across data and security – and is now leading the charge at NetApp on its AI journey focused on data and platform. Gagan serves as an advisor to many data, security and AI startups in this space.

Pravjit Tiwana is SVP & GM of NetApp’s Cloud Storage and Services business, where he leads strategy, product, engineering, and P&L across first-party hyperscaler services (Azure NetApp Files, Amazon FSx for ONTAP, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes), Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Instaclustr, and NetApp’s broader open source and cloud AI portfolio. A technology executive with more than 24 years of experience, Pravjit has built and scaled platforms from incubation to multi-billion-dollar businesses across cloud infrastructure, storage, SaaS, networking, and Web3.