Greg Knieriemen Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, Us

I have the privilege of leading our Global Sales Enablement team to oversee the implementation of interactive sales playbooks, gamified learning programs, and the adoption of innovative Revenue Intelligence tools, including account planning, deal intelligence, and pipeline performance analytics.

Santa Clara, California, Us

I was recruited back to Hitachi Vantara to connect user and partner priorities to the vision and value of Hitachi technologies. Of note:▪ Facilitated the development of Corporate Governance Council with senior executives to align customer priorities and objectives to solutions and services.▪ Co-developed Business Management Teams (BMT's) to support and drive customer and partner oriented field engagements.▪ Developed user-oriented content that connects their needs and outcomes to enabling technologies that demonstrate and deliver real value. Creator and producer of the “Unbreakable with Kari Byron” video series.▪ Supported the work of our Global Centre of Excellence team to amplify their user engagements and POC’s that demonstrate sustainability, simplicity, reliability, availability and security across our portfolio with a focus on public cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

San Jose, California, Us

I had the privilege of building NetApp's first global technology evangelism team to share our user-driven vision, value and technologies. While building the program, we were also able to map back and measure "influenced" and "contributed" revenue of these activities.Responsibilities included:• Developing and driving technology evangelism strategy, operations and execution with a global team spanning Americas, EMEA and APAC.• Designed, built and executed engagement strategy with internal team of cloud, DevOps and infrastructure SME's to authentically engage, at scale, with users, customers and industry thought leaders.• Responsible for the coordination and execution of social/digital strategies, community engagement, content development, messaging and reporting.• Creating and delivering unique content delivering measurable awareness and adoption of NetApp technologies to broad audiences with community roundtables, podcasts, presentations and social engagement.

San Jose, California, Us

As the Chief Technologist at NetApp, I worked with product and solutions marketing teams to drive needle-moving interest in our technologies that enable enterprises to get the most value out of their data whether it's on-premises, in the cloud or on the edge. Responsibilities included:▪ Developing and leading strategies to drive NetApp awareness, thought leadership and interest across our portfolio with a focus on Hybrid-cloud, cloud-native storage services, AI, data science and data management. ▪ Creating strategies and tactics that demonstrate our unique capabilities at scale by developing narratives for media, analyst and influencer engagement. ▪ Demonstrating the capabilities of our flash and storage technologies as well as our integration with leading cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) by creating and delivering compelling presentations to large audiences. ▪ Supporting product launches, announcements, demand generation and content activities including trade shows, conferences, sales kickoff and ongoing technical sales training as well as channel partner training activities. ▪ Leveraging social following (15,000+ on Twitter) to drive interest and engagement with our customers and the broader technology industry.

Santa Clara, California, Us

As the Chief Technology Strategist, I worked with a world class team developing and driving the vision and application of Hitachi technologies globally. Responsibilities included:▪ Creating and executing thought leadership initiatives leveraging all aspects of an integrated strategy (digital and social communications, events and speaking engagements) to amplify our mission and vision▪ Member of the Office of Technology and Planning (OTP), contributing research and feedback as part of Hitachi's engineering and product management technology evaluation and planning teams▪ Developing industry recognized blog posts, podcasts, videos, and other social content that highlight best practices, cool technologies, and thought-leading commentary▪ Executive Briefing Center host/presenter and Global Executive Advisory Board facilitator▪ Speaking and presenting at global industry events (VMworld, OpenStack Summit, Cloud Kamp, CIO Symposiums, etc) ▪ Developing Public Relations and Analyst Relations programs and initiatives that drive brand and innovation awareness▪ Developing compelling narratives and story lines that fully represent and express the value propositions for Hitachi's leading innovation portfolio including IoT, analytics, cloud computing as well as storage and compute infrastructure▪ Direct corporate messaging council with product management and marketing teams across storage, compute, analytics, cloud and IoT portfolio▪ Direct, lead and provide guidance on messaging and breakout presentations for the Hitachi NEXT global user conference▪ Develop and coordinate open source initiatives and external engagement in coordination with engineering teams, particularly with OpenStack▪ Leverage social following (15,000+ on Twitter) to drive interest and engagement about Hitachi with broader tech industry▪ Certifications include Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Santa Clara, California, Us

As the Hitachi Data Systems Technology Evangelist, I help develop and drive the vision and application of Hitachi Data Systems technology globally. Focus areas include the HDS technology portfolio particularly cloud computing (including OpenStack), big data, virtualization, storage and converged infrastructures.

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Ohio, Us

As the Vice President of Marketing at Chi Corporation, I had the privilege of leading a great team to help drive interest and sales in innovative data storage, server and networking technologies. In addition to driving marketing, I also served as the lead technologist to directly drive interest and sales with some our largest clients across the US.Chi Corporation offers expertise in server and storage virtualization, VDI, data management, storage architecture, data backup, business continuance and disaster recovery. Chi’s storage networking products enable diverse infrastructure environments that integrate with products from every major storage platform and storage application vendor. Chi's strong relationship with solution partners ensures that your investment is backed by the leading vendors in the world.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing, Finance

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