Employees at Cray rank Peter Ungaro in the Bottom 35% of CEOs in Seattle. Comparatively, employees at NetApp rank George Kurian in the Top 20% of CEOs in San Francisco. Employees rate their CEO differently based on the frequency of interaction, ability to affect company culture, and drive measurable results.

Peter Ungaro

CEO of Cray

BIO: Mr. Peter J. Ungaro has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Cray Inc. since August 8, 2005 and March 2005 respectively. Mr.Ungaro served as Senior Vice President for sales, marketing and services of Cray Inc. from September 20, 2004 to August 2005. Mr.Ungaro served as Vice President, worldwide deep computing sales for IBM since April 2003. He led global sales of all IBM server and storage products for high performance computing, life sciences, digital media and business intelligence markets. Mr. Ungaro coordinated IBM solutions teams that included sales, technical, marketing and product development personnel. Mr. Ungaro served as Vice President, worldwide high performance computing sales of IBM since 1999 and before then he held a number of other sales leadership positions after joining IBM in 1991. Mr. Ungaro was responsible for creating and implementing IBM's worldwide marketing and sales strategy, expanding opportunities for current and future Cray products, collaborating closely with product development and other technical leaders and continually enhancing the capabilities of Cray's global sales force. Mr. Ungaro has been a Director of Cray Inc. since August 8, 2005. Mr.Ungaro received a B.A. in business administration from Washington State University in 1990.

George Kurian

CEO of NetApp

BIO: Mr. George Kurian has been the Chief Executive Officer of NetApp, Inc. since June 1, 2015 and as its President since May 20, 2016. Mr. Kurian served as an Executive Vice President of Product Operations at NetApp, Inc. since September 20, 2013. He served as Senior Vice President of the Data ONTAP Group at NetApp since December 2011. He oversaw the product roadmap and engineering execution of the Data ONTAP Operating System, the world's most widely deployed storage operating system and the associated On Command Storage Management product portfolio. He served as Senior Vice President of the Storage Solutions Group at NetApp where he oversaw the NetApp solutions portfolio and joint partner technology integration roadmaps. He joined NetApp in April 2011. Prior to joining NetApp, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Application Networking and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems. In this role, he was responsible for Cisco products for the Modular Campus LAN Switching and WAN Application Delivery markets. He also led Cisco's successful development of products and solutions to enable Ethernet-based Converged Networks for Video, Voice and Data. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Kurian served as the Vice President for Product Management and Strategy at Akamai Technologies and led Software Engineering and Product Management teams at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Kurian has been a Director of NetApp, Inc. since June 1, 2015. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Princeton University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University.