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.

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.