Krithiwas Neelakantan has joined NetApp as director, channel and alliances for India and SAARC operations.
Neelakantan will lead channel development and channel enablement programs, and drive sales through joint go-to-market with the NetApp partner ecosystem.
Prior to joining NetApp, he was with Oracle as director, channels. In his 18-year long career, Neelakantan has worked with organisations like Sun Microsystems and Wipro. He has experience across sectors such as education, healthcare, volume sales, business development and channels. Neelakantan?s expertise lay in building, enabling and sustaining businesses and enabling partner competency to address relevant markets and industries.
Commenting on Neelakantan?s appointment, Anil Valluri, president, NetApp India, says, ?We are witnessing more of solution-led buying amongst the Indian customers. This makes it imperative that we further our collaboration and investment in our partner ecosystem and help build solutions that cater to the business needs of customers across the band. Neelakantan with his experience is set to deliver well on this path and will further strengthen our customer and partner relationships.?
