Anil Valluri — President of India & SAARC at NetApp

Mr. Anil Valluri serves as the President of India and Saarc at NetApp, Inc. He joined NetApp in February 2012. Mr. Valluri is responsible for the overall business and operations of NetApp in India and the SAARC region. His directive includes growing market share and driving healthy ecosystem growth among both Partners and Customers in the region. Mr. Valluri serves as a Venture Partner at Anthill Ventures. He also serves as the President of NetApp India Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Valluri oversees NetApp sales, marketing and services operations in India and the SAARC region. He serves as Country Business Head and Enterprise Systems at Compaq Computer (India) Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Valluri is an Technology Professional at DCM DataSystems Limited. He joined NetApp from Artiman Ventures, where he served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for two years. Prior to that, Mr. Valluri served as the Chief Technology Officer, Director of Systems Engineering, Managing Director, Vice President and Director of Sun Microsystems India Private Limited. He led a team of IT Architects, Consultants, Product Specialists and Solution Managers in Data Center, Data Management, Java Web Services, Identity and Network Computing. Mr. Valluri joined Sun Microsystems India in 1999 and was responsible for all technology, product and solution consulting and expansion into newer industry segments. He served as President of NetApp India Marketing & Services Private Limited (NetApp Systems India Private Ltd) at NetApp, Inc. since February 27, 2012. Mr. Valluri worked at Sun Microsystems for 11 years and left it in 2009. He was the Country Business Head, Enterprise Systems at Compaq India. Mr. Valluri also headed the Tandem server business at Digital Equipment India in 1990. He started his career with DCM Data Systems in 1985. Mr. Valluri has also worked with DCM Data Products and Digital India. He is on Advisory council for customers, Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officer forums and is also on many Jury Panels for well known IT publications. Mr. Valluri has an unparalleled track record of helping technology companies grow into market leaders and a deep understanding of the India market, along with strong relationships across customers, partners and industry influencers. He was instrumental in pioneering and evangelizing 64-bit computing technology in India back in 1993 during his stint with Digital. Mr. Valluri has been involved in enterprise computing decisions in the country with customers belonging to diverse segments in banking, transportation, securities, manufacturing, automobiles, telecom and government. He is a regular speaker on technology/computing trends. Mr. Valluri has over 25 years of Sales, Marketing and Technology Management experience in IT industry. In this span, he has been a part of some of the largest enterprises in India, specifically in their Enterprise IT build outs and in diversified industries such as Banking, Telecommunications, Government, Retail and Manufacturing segments. He has been Independent Director at Sankhya Infotech Limited since November 29, 2017. Mr. Valluri is an alumnus of Stanford University.