NetApp appoints Jürgen Hofkens as CTO and VP Sales Engineering, EMEA and LATAM.

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    "excerpt": "NetApp appoints Jürgen Hofkens as CTO and VP Sales Engineering, EMEA and LATAM.\n\nMay 5, 2026\n\nNetApp announced the appointment of Jürgen Hofkens as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Sales Engineering for EMEA and LATAM, effective 1 May 2026. He will report to Willem Hendrickx, SVP and General Manager, EMEA and LATAM. Hofkens will lead the region's technical strategy and customer engagement. He joins at a time when enterprises are operationalising AI and increasingly concerned about data sovereignty and cybersecurity. And seeking options such as flexible hybrid cloud to address those concerns.\n\nHofkens replaces Gavin Moore, who has held the role for the last two years. It isn't clear whether Moore is staying within NetApp or moving on to somewhere else.\n\nHendrickx said, \"Our customers and partners are navigating a once-in-a-generation shift: making their data ready for AI, hardening it against new cyber threats, and running it seamlessly across clouds and on-premises. Jürgen's appointment reflects our commitment to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them, backed by the deepest technical expertise in the industry.\n\n\"We are also growing our sales engineering, AI, and cybersecurity teams across the region, and welcome talented people who share that customer focus to join us.\"\n\nWho is Jürgen Hofkens.\n\nHofkens joins NetApp from AWS, where he spent nearly six years. He...",
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