George Kurian vs Victor Lund

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.

Victor Lund

CEO of Teradata Corporation

BIO: Victor Lund was appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Teradata in November 2019 and served as Executive Chairman of Teradata’s Board of Directors from January 2019 until February 2020. He previously served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Teradata from May 2016 until his appointment as Executive Chairman. Mr. Lund has been a member of Teradata’s board since 2007 and was the Chair of the Audit Committee from 2007 until May 2016. Previously, he served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of DemandTec, Inc., a publicly-held, on-demand applications company, from 2006 until 2012, and was a member of its board from 2005 until 2012. Mr. Lund was non-executive Chairman of the Board of Mariner Health Care, Inc., a long-term health care services company, from 2002 until 2004 and Vice Chairman of Albertson's, Inc. from 1999 to 2002. Prior to that, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Stores Company. During his extended career with American Stores, Mr. Lund held executive positions of increasing responsibility leading to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, including Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lund was a practicing certified public accountant. He also serves as a director of Service Corporation International and a number of privately-held companies.