Wissam Jabre Joins NetApp as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
January 28 2025 - 3:45PM
Business Wire
Today, NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data
infrastructure company, announced the appointment of Wissam Jabre
as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective
March 10, 2025. Jabre brings over 20 years of experience leading
finance organizations and a strong track record of value creation
and disciplined operational management. Jabre’s appointment follows
the previously announced planned retirement of Mike Berry, who
served as NetApp’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer for the last five years.
“We are thrilled to welcome Wissam to our leadership team,” said
George Kurian, Chief Executive Officer. “His decades of financial
experience will be invaluable as we continue to execute on our
visionary approach for a data-driven future. As a seasoned CFO and
proven leader in building high-performance finance teams, Wissam
will play a pivotal role working across the business to drive
sustained growth and long-term value for our stakeholders.”
“I’m excited to join this incredible team as NetApp builds on
its momentum and captures market share with its leading intelligent
data infrastructure platform,” said Wissam Jabre, incoming Chief
Financial Officer. “There is tremendous opportunity ahead to
enhance value for our shareholders. I look forward to partnering
with the leadership team and leading the finance organization as we
build on the Company’s efforts to drive growth and profitability,
as well as deliver results for our stakeholders.”
Jabre brings extensive experience leading finance organizations
for businesses that move at the speed of customer requirements. He
has most recently held the position of Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer at Western Digital Corporation, where he
led the global finance organization, including accounting,
financial reporting, tax, treasury, internal audit, and investor
relations. He previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of Dialog Semiconductor from 2016 until it was
acquired by Renesas Electronics in 2021. Prior to that, he held
senior finance roles at Advanced Micro Devices, Freescale
Semiconductor, and Motorola. Jabre began his career with
Schlumberger, where he held engineering and finance roles. He also
sits on the board of MKS Instruments, Inc. where he is an audit
committee member. Jabre holds an MBA from Columbia Business School
and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the American University
of Beirut.
About NetApp
NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining
unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps
solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every
customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing
observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management.
As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in
the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless
flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage
through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application
agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of
performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter
the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can
transform your data infrastructure to realize your business
possibilities. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X,
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