Ex-Pure Storage exec Andrew Sotiropoulos joins NetApp to lead APAC business

U.S-headquartered storage and data management solutions provider NetApp has appointed technology veteran and senior business executive Andrew Sotiropoulos as senior vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific. 

Sotiropoulos takes over from Sanjay Rohatgi, who will be departing the company to pursue opportunities outside of the company, after nearly four years of leading NetApp's sales teams in Asia Pacific. 

Based in Singapore, Sotiropoulos will lead the company’s expansion plans in the APAC region, including India. Reporting to NetApp President Cesar Cernuda, his priorities include growing NetApp’s enterprise storage and cloud business and strengthening its partner ecosystem in the market. 

Sotiropoulos has over three decades of experience in the technology industry, leading pan-regional teams to drive business growth and capture emerging opportunities. He most recently served as vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan at Pure Storage, where he joined in 2018.  

Sotiropoulos has also led teams at IBM and Lenovo. In IBM, he led the Global Technology Services division in Asia Pacific. He has extensive experience leading organisations in Asia Pacific and Global roles across both product and technology services segments. 

 “NetApp is resolute in helping APAC organizations mitigate complexities to accelerate their digital transformation journeys, across on-premises and hybrid multicloud environments,” said Sotiropoulos. He added, “I am excited to build on the 30-year foundation that NetApp has laid down, letting customers further boost their innovation speed, lower costs, and improve agility.” 

Within Asia Pacific, India forms a very important market for NetApp. In an interview with the Hindu Business Line last month, Ravi Chhabria, Managing Director India at NetApp said that all its global functions are anchored in India and built on a strong backbone of innovation. India currently runs  major initiatives, say handling finance operations, and even closes global Fortune 500 books in India, he added. Notably, 30% of the company’s 12,000 employees globally are based in India.