CTO Jay Kidd to Retire From NetApp

In a blog of NetApp, SVP and CTO Jay Kidd wrote:” (…) I will be retiring from corporate life this summer. With my youngest off at college, I will shift my time to pursue more personal interests and delve more deeply into the areas of advising and investing.”

Prior to joining NetApp, he held the positions of CTO and VP of product Mmanagement at Brocade. Before joining Brocade, he was VP of marketing for Omneon Video Networks, Inc., a supplier of storage and networking equipment for video broadcasters; and Multigen, a real-time 3D simulation software company. Prior to that, he spent seven years at Silicon Graphics, where he directed product management and marketing efforts for the graphics workstations, servers, and SGI Web systems business. He spent ten years at Hewlett Packard, where he held engineering and product management positions in the information networks group.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University. He is married with three children and lives in California.