George Kurian (businessman)

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George Kurian
Born1966 (age 58–59)
Pampady, Kerala, India
NationalityAmerican
Education
Occupation Chief executive officer
Employer NetApp
TitleCEO and Board Member of NetApp
PredecessorTom Georgens
Board member ofNetApp
SpouseMarried
Children2
Relatives Thomas Kurian (brother)

George Kurian is an American business executive. He is the current chief executive officer and a member of the board of NetApp. Prior to this, he was the executive vice president of product operations at NetApp.

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Early life and education

Kurian was born to P. C. Kurian and his wife Molly in 1966 in Pampady village of Kottayam district in Kerala, India. Thomas Kurian Kurian senior was a chemical engineer and the general manager of Graphite India. [1] Kurian was one among four brothers including his identical twin and Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian. [2]

As their father's career involved moving around India, the twins boarded at the Jesuit-run St Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore. Both were accepted to the university IIT Madras. There they both took SAT tests and sent the results to various colleges, including Princeton University, which offered both of them partial scholarship places. [3] At the age of 17, along with Thomas Kurian, [4] he moved to the United States. George Kurian is a 1995 graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also holds an electrical engineering degree from Princeton University. [5]

Career

Kurian worked as a valet, pizza chef and bartender in college. [5]

His career in tech included the role of vice president at Akamai Technologies, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and leading Software Engineering and Product Management teams at Oracle Corporation. [6]

NetApp Inc.

Kurian joined NetApp in 2011 as senior vice president of its storage solutions group. He was promoted to executive vice president (EVP) for product operations in 2013. He was promoted to chief executive officer in 2015. [7]

Kurian received a base salary of $9,491,210 as chief executive officer and director at NetApp in 2020. [8]

Personal life

Kurian is married and is a father of two. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "New Oracle chief's Kerala roots". The Hindu. 11 January 2015. Archived from the original on 25 February 2024. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  2. ↑ "Leadership Team at NetApp". Archived from the original on 2021-04-10. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  3. ↑ at 09:38, Chris Mellor 7 Jul 2016. "Three years in: Can Kurian heal sickly NetApp's woes?". www.theregister.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 December 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "New World Pioneers. George Kurian lays out future vision of humankind built on social consciousness". July 18, 2019. Archived from the original on July 25, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 "NetApp's George Kurian keeps on transforming". The Mercury News . 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  6. ↑ "George Kurian Net Worth (2020) – wallmine.com". wallmine.com. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  7. ↑ Blass, Diana (8 November 2019). "From The Classroom In India To Silicon Valley: NetApp CEO's Journey To The Top". CRN . The Channel Company. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  8. ↑ "George Kurian Net Worth (2020) – wallmine.com". wallmine.com. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
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