DDN Appoints Kevin Delane as President and Chief Revenue Officer to Scale Global AI Leadership

DDN, a reference in AI data intelligence platforms, announced the appointment of Kevin Delane as president and CRO. In this role, Delane will lead global revenue strategy, go-to-market execution, marketing and customer success as DDN enters its next phase of hypergrowth.

The appointment comes at a pivotal moment for DDN, following recent executive leadership additions and increasing market momentum amid reports of a potential IPO. As enterprises and sovereign nations rapidly operationalize AI, demand is surging for production-grade data infrastructure capable of sustaining large-scale training, inference, and AI factory deployments.

DDN is uniquely positioned at the center of this shift, powering some of the world’s largest and most advanced AI environments in partnership with NVIDIA and other ecosystem leaders. The company’s continued growth reflects a broader market transition: from experimental AI to mission-critical, data-intensive production systems where performance, scalability, and efficiency directly impact business outcomes.

“DDN is entering a defining chapter,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder, DDN. “As AI moves into full-scale production globally, the companies that win will be those that can translate technical leadership into repeatable customer success at scale. Kevin brings the operational discipline and go-to-market expertise to help us do exactly that – accelerating our global expansion while deepening our leadership in AI infrastructure.”

Delane brings more than three decades of experience building and scaling enterprise technology companies across storage, data infrastructure, and cloud markets. He previously held senior leadership roles at EverPure (formally Pure Storage), where he helped scale the company beyond $2 billion in revenue, as well as at Cohesity and OwnBackup (now Own, part of Salesforce), where he led global go-to-market strategy across sales, marketing, partnerships, and customer success to accelerate revenue growth, expand enterprise accounts, and maximize customer lifetime value.

His appointment follows the recent addition of Guido Torrini as CFOO, further strengthening DDN’s executive bench as the company scales its operations, financial rigor, and global reach.

“DDN has established itself as the data backbone for the AI era,” said Delane. “What’s happening in the market right now is a once-in-a-generation platform shift, from compute-led innovation to data-centric AI infrastructure. My focus is to scale DDN’s go-to-market engine globally and ensure more organizations can leverage its unmatched performance to move AI into production faster and more efficiently.”

Delane has a proven track record of building high-performance revenue organizations and implementing repeatable go-to-market models that drive durable, long-term growth. At DDN, he will focus on expanding enterprise adoption, strengthening strategic partnerships, and accelerating customer success across key global markets.