Jay Kidd

Who is Jay Kidd?

Jay Kidd is the chief marketing officer at NetApp. Kidd has over 25

years of experience in storage, networking and high-performance systems. Before

joining NetApp, he held the position of chief technology officer and vice

president of Product Management at Brocade where he was vital to developing and

implementing the Brocade product roadmap, including infrastructure and strategic

evangelism. Before joining Brocade, Kidd was vice president of Marketing

for Omneon Inc., a supplier of storage and networking equipment for video

broadcasters. Prior to Omneon, he was vice president of Marketing for

MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc., a real-time, 3D simulation software company. Kidd spent

seven years at Silicon Graphics (SGI), where he directed marketing efforts for

the SGI Web systems business and several other successful products. He also

worked at Hewlett Packard, where he held key engineering and marketing

management positions in the Information Networks Group. Kidd holds a

Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University.