Presenter

As a storage expert and Senior Director of Solutions for Western Digital’s Data Center Systems business unit, Stefaan Vervaet heads up solutions & vertical market strategy for disk and flash based platform and systems. He focuses on HPC, ML and analytics workloads that drive the adoption of NVME and Exabyte Scale-out out archives. He also heads up the technology partner ecosystem. Stefaan brings 15 years of experience in the data storage and backup industry. As a business-focused technologist with an extensive start-up background, he brings a unique perspective to Western Digital. His background includes product management and go-to-market positions in the backup space (Veritas), as well as technical sales and support executive positions in the storage as application world. Vervaet holds a master’s degree in Applied Informatics from the University of Ghent, Belgium and is currently based out of the San Jose headquarters.