Pure Storage names Nathan Hall vice president of APJ

American technology company Pure Storage on Wednesday has appointed Nathan Hall as vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.

Based in Singapore, Hall will oversee sales and drive business results for Pure Storage and its customers in the region.
The enterprise data flash storage solutions firm said the appointment comes at "a significant time of customer momentum" across diverse industries.

It counts organisations such as The Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF) and St George's Hospital among its customers.
Prior to his new role, Hall served as Pure Storage's vice president of worldwide systems engineering, where he led the company's global pre-sales engineering team.

With over five years of experience at Pure Storage, Hall is known for his technical leadership and business acumen in the enterprise space.
Hall's understanding of the region's diverse business cultures and customer needs will aid in driving Pure's accelerated growth trajectory in APJ, the company said.

“Nathan has a deep understanding of our customers and how Pure Storage technology can help them to succeed,” Dan FitzSimons, chief revenue officer at Pure Storage said in a statement.

“Under his leadership, we’re confident that Pure in APJ will continue its accelerated growth trajectory. Nathan has also spent considerable time in the region recently and has in-depth knowledge and appreciation of the diverse business cultures and customer needs.”

“Pure Storage has been on a journey for over 10 years in APJ enabling our customers’ data platforms to continuously improve without downtime, all while ensuring those same customers never have to migrate for a tech refresh and never have to repurchase capacity,” Hall said.

Earlier this year, Pure Storage has promoted Ajeya Motaganahalli to the role of vice president, engineering for its FlashBlade, a data storage platform that is designed to scale the performance of large-scale data applications.  

Motaganahalli, who joined the flash storage company in January 2022 as managing director, research and development (R&D) in India will continue in both the roles from now. In his expanded role, Motaganahalli will be responsible for leading the FlashBlade engineering teams in both Prague and Bangalore.