Brendon Howe is Vice President and General Manager of the NAS and Object Storage business unit at NetApp. Primarily responsible for leading the company's file services solutions and the emerging object storage and "Big Data" product offerings, Brendon has extensive experience in executive leadership within the networking, storage, and virtualization technology segments and has served in executive management positions at several start-up companies, including Trebia Networks, Inc., an early pioneer of storage network processors used for FC and iSCSI SAN connectivity; Navipath; and Indus River Networks. Brendon holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Boston University and an MBA in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Wayne is an engineering executive experienced in bringing successful, innovative products to market. He has deep experience building multi-disciplined teams and leading them to meet delivery and investment targets. Prior to his current position as Senior Director, Wayne has held a variety of executive roles at EMC Corporation in product development, product management and technical business development. Wayne received his B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his M.Sc in Systems Engineering from Boston University.