George Kurian is an

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business executive. He is the current chief executive officer and a member of the board of

NetApp NetApp, Inc. is an American hybrid cloud data services and data management company headquartered in San Jose, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 from 2012–2021. Founded in 1992 with an IPO in 1995, NetApp offers cloud data services ...

. Prior to this, he was the Executive Vice President of Product Operations at NetApp.

Early life and education

Kurian was born in

Kerala, India Kerala ( ; ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

. He is the twin brother of

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CEO,

Thomas Kurian Thomas Kurian is an Indian-American business executive and Chief Executive Officer of Google Cloud since 2019. Early life Thomas Kurian was born to P.C. Kurian and his wife Molly in 1966 in Pampady village of Kottayam district in Kerala, India. ...

. George Kurian was a 1995 graduate of

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

. He also holds an

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

degree from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

Career

Kurian worked as a valet, pizza chef and bartender in college. His career in tech included the role of vice president at

Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery networkJ. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. Akamai's Inte ...

, management consulting at

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, and leading Software Engineering and Product Management teams at

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. The company sells da ...

NetApp Inc.

Kurian joined NetApp in 2011 as Senior Vice President of its storage solutions group. He was promoted to EVP for product operations in 2013. He was promoted to

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in 2015. Kurian received a base salary of $9,491,210 as chief executive officer and director at NetApp.

Personal life

Kurian is married and is a father of two. He resides in the

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References

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