Ajay Singh Chief Product Officer, Pure Storage

Pure Storage, Inc. announces Ajay Singh as chief product officer, effectively immediately.

He will report to chairman and CEO, Charles Giancarlo.

In this role, he will further the company’s focus to create a product portfolio that delivers customer experience, contributes to growth, and extends leadership in data and storage management.

“Pure continues to lead the storage industry in innovation, reliability and flexibility, and now delivering our technology as-a-service – increasing our relevance to both those who build infrastructure and those who build applications,” said Giancarlo. “In Ajay, we have exceptional talent to lead the continued expansion of Pure’s portfolio and I look forward to seeing his expertise in action.”

“I have had long-standing admiration for Pure and I could not be more eager to be a part of this world-class team,” said Singh. “Pure is rightfully a disruptor and an innovator, meeting customers where they are and enabling them on a path forward to transform their environments.”

He will have direct responsibility for all of Pure’s business units as well as the global alliances team focused on developing partnerships with important technology partners.

He brings to Pure more than 25 years of experience in software and services with an extensive background leading as-a-Service and DevOps teams. He joins the company from VMware, where he led the company’s transformation to the cloud as the GM of the cloud management business unit.

Prior to that, he was SVP and GM of Hewlett-Packard‘s IT operations management software business. He also served as CEO of Elastic Intelligence, an infrastructure platform-as-a-service company that was acquired by Intuit. He founded and then sold ProactiveNet to BMC. During his tenure at BMC, he held multiple executive roles and ran the service assurance, application, and DevOps business units.

He holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his bachelor’s degree  in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India.