Simon Green

Background

About Simon Green

Simon Green is President of Palo Alto Networks JAPAC the global leader in Cybersecurity. He was previously COO of Interactive an Australian based systems availability and data-centre company focused on cloud computing. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific at NetApp where he served in multiple roles over 14 years. He was responsible for leading the business through setting strategy, managing the P&L, growing sales, including driving channel strategy, managing strategic partnerships, and developing the company's emerging products business. A significant double digit growth business with over employees across 14 countries. Green has extensive experience leading sales and business development teams. He joined NetApp in and previously held the role of vice president for Go-to-Market for Asia Pacific. In this position, he was responsible for the NetApp-IBM relationship, regional channel programs, and major account strategy. Before that, he was the area director for South Asia, responsible for NetApp strategic direction in the region. Before joining NetApp, Green was national sales manager and director for ProVision, which was, at that time, NetApp's Australian distributor. Before entering the enterprise storage business, Green spent several years in a business-development position with Austereo. He also worked for seven years in a chartered accountant firm as a tax accountant. Simon previously held the position of Non-Executive Director for Interactive from 2008 to 2015 and an NED position and Chair of the remuneration committee for ASX Listed Company 99 From 2013 to 2019.