Hitachi Vantara named Ayman Abouelwafa as its new chief technology officer as it continues to build out its executive team.
Abouelwafa, who was previously CTO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's storage group, lands at Hitachi Vantara just weeks after the hybrid cloud infrastructure company named Octavian Tanase as chief product officer. Tanase was previously at NetApp.
Like Tanase, Abouelwafa will report to Hitachi Vantara CEO Shiela Rohra. Abouelwafa will also serve on Hitachi Vantara's executive committee. In a statement, Rohra said Abouelwafa will bring a deep understanding of emerging technologies and market trends as Hitachi Vantara aims to become a leading hybrid cloud company.
At HPE, Abouelwafa was responsible for commercializing next-generation data storage platforms and software as well as strategic research.
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