George Kurian

Indian-American businessperson (born 1966)

George Kurian is an American business executive. He is the current chief executive officer and a member of the board of NetApp.2

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About

Prior to this, he was the executive vice president of product operations at NetApp.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • 1990Princeton University Bachelor of Science; electrical engineering, computer science3 4
  • 1993 to 1995Stanford University Master of Business Administration3 4
  • Date not recordedSt. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore3

Kurian was born to P. C. Kurian and his wife Molly in 1966 in Pampady village of Kottayam district in Kerala, India. Kurian senior was a chemical engineer and the general manager of Graphite India. Kurian was one among four brothers including his identical twin and Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian.

As their father's career involved moving around India, the twins boarded at the Jesuit-run St Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore. Both were accepted to the university IIT Madras. There they both took SAT tests and sent the results to various colleges, including Princeton University, which offered both of them partial scholarship places. At the age of 17, along with Thomas Kurian, he moved to the United States. George Kurian is a 1995 graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also holds an electrical engineering degree from Princeton University.

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Career

Occupation: chief executive officer.7 8

Kurian worked as a valet, pizza chef and bartender in college.

His career in tech included the role of vice president at Akamai Technologies, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and leading Software Engineering and Product Management teams at Oracle Corporation.

NetApp Inc.

Kurian joined NetApp in 2011 as senior vice president of its storage solutions group. He was promoted to executive vice president (EVP) for product operations in 2013. He was promoted to chief executive officer in 2015.

Kurian received a base salary of $9,491,210 as chief executive officer and director at NetApp in 2020.

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Personal life

  • BornKerala9

Kurian is married and is a father of two. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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