James Lau

Who is James Lau?

James Lau is chief strategy officer, responsible for guiding the evolution of Network Appliance's business strategy and identifying additional market and product opportunities to fuel future growth. He cofounded NetApp with Dave Hitz in 1992 and was vice president of engineering from then until 1995. Prior to starting Network Appliance, Lau served as director of software development at Auspex, a file server manufacturer, where he was instrumental in defining product requirements and the architecture of that company's high-performance NFS file servers. Prior to Auspex, he was group manager of PC products at Bridge Communications, now known as 3Com. Lau received a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in computer engineering from Stanford University.