Strategic leadership role to accelerate enterprise expansion and expand market leadership in AI infrastructure

DDN, the global leader in AI data intelligence platforms, today announced the appointment of Kevin Delane as President and Chief Revenue Officer (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.

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Kevin Delane, President and CRO at DDN

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 of 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 Chief Financial and Operating Officer, 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.

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About DDN

DDN is the world’s leading AI and data intelligence company, powering the world’s most demanding AI workloads by keeping GPUs fed, efficient, and productive—at massive scale—so organizations can train, checkpoint, and infer faster with less footprint and power while achieving tremendous ROI from their AI investments. From hyperscalers and next-gen cloud builders to enterprises, governments, and research institutions, DDN delivers proven data intelligence at exabyte scale across hundreds of thousands of GPUs—so customers can deploy AI with confidence, accelerate time-to-value, and realize outsized returns. Discover more at ddn.com.

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