NetApp Appoints Market Growth and Revenue Operations Leader, Dallas Olson to CCO
NetApp, the
intelligent data infrastructure company, announced Dallas Olson as the
company’s new Chief Commercial Officer, reporting to NetApp’s President, César
Cernuda. Olson brings over 25 years of experience building high-performance
teams responsible for planning, operations, enablement, engagement, and
go-to-market strategies.
As NetApp’s CCO,
Olson will oversee sales strategy driving business growth in key areas
including AI and Keystone through specialist teams, enhance market presence,
optimize sales models, foster strategic partnerships, champion a
customer-centric approach, and drive initiatives to maintain NetApp’s position
as a market leader primed for accelerated growth.
“We’re thrilled for
Dallas to join NetApp at a time of momentum for the company as we empower
enterprises to make their data infrastructure intelligent with unified data
storage built for innovation in the era of AI," said César Cernuda,
President at NetApp. “Olson's previous achievements in fostering
high-performance acceleration for multinational corporations, his adept
leadership in guiding large organizations through tumultuous market shifts, and
his track record of driving triple-digit growth for his teams render him the
perfect candidate to provide exceptional value to our customers.”
Most recently,
Olson led global go-to-market strategy and revenue operations for Cisco. Before
that role, Olson served as Cisco’s Chief Operations Officer and Vice President
for the Americas where he was responsible for strategy, planning, operations,
enablement, engagement, and go-to-market efforts. Prior to that he held various
leadership roles within Cisco including leading strategy & planning for its
US Commercial group and leading enterprise software teams for Cisco’s WebEx
Technology Group. Before his tenure at Cisco, Olson served as the Executive
Director of Misys Allscripts’s corporate development team where he led merger,
acquisition, and corporate strategy and was previously the global sales lead at
DHL.
“Joining NetApp is
an exciting and unique opportunity,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial
Officer at NetApp. “NetApp’s rich history of enabling innovation, and its
ambition to continue to do so is inspiring. My focus will be on delivering a
go-to-market strategy that continues to provide exceptional value to customers,
and to turbo charge the company’s global growth trajectory. I look forward to
making an impact and delivering meaningful change.”
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