Manish Goel, Executive Vice President, Product Operations

Manish Goel is the executive vice president of Product Operations at NetApp. In this role, he oversees product strategy and product development across all the business units that span the product portfolio. In his previous role as general manager of the Software Products Group at NetApp, Manish led the business units responsible for the management software, disk-to-disk backup, disaster recovery, compliance security, and storage-efficiency product portfolios at NetApp.

Manish joined NetApp in 2002 as senior director of Corporate Development and later moved to India to set up the technology center for NetApp. Upon his return from India, he assumed the role of vice president of Enterprise Accounts. Prior to working at NetApp, Manish led Corporate Development, M&A, and Business Development for Cadence Design Systems and Copper Mountain Networks. Prior to that, he spent four years as a strategy consultant for McKinsey and Co. and six years as a sales operations and software development engineer.

Manish holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a master of business administration degree in finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.