Volkov Novel Nikolaevich

Volkov Novel Nikolaevich

Biography

Roman Volkov graduated from the Higher Naval School named after A.S. Popov in St. Petersburg.

He managed sales at Nortel and Bay Networks, which was purchased by Nortel in 1998.

Then he worked as a Telco sales manager at Sun Microsystems and was responsible for working with key customers.

2005

Since 2005 - Head of the NetApp Representative Office in Russia and the CIS countries. In this position, Volkov led the company and was responsible for organizing and managing the sales of NetApp in this territory. The responsibilities of the head of the representative office include developing and managing the implementation of the marketing strategy, developing relations with existing partners in Russia and the CIS countries, as well as expanding cooperation with strategic and commercial partners. NetApp

2016-2017

In February 2016, Roman Volkov decided to leave the company. He explained to TAdviser that he had worked in NetApp for 11 years and it was time to look for "new opportunities." Instead of Roman Volkov, Tatyana Bocharnikova was appointed to the post of head of the NetApp representative office in Russia and the CIS countries in April, who previously held the position of sales director in the company.

On April 20, 2017, Roman Volkov, who previously headed the Russian representative office of NetApp, took up the duties of the general director of HayTek LLC. At HayTek, Roman will have to bring to the market the Russian vendor of telecommunications equipment IVA Technologies. The product line being developed, which is scheduled for release at the end of 2017, will allow you to build a productive IT infrastructure of any scale, while ensuring a high degree of data protection.

"The decision to manufacture its own telecommunications equipment was dictated by the challenges of time, market conditions and the needs of our customers, primarily state and law enforcement agencies," said Nikolai Ivenev, chairman of the board of directors of HayTek.

2020: Appointment of Pure Storage as Head of Russian Office

On October 13, 2020, Pure Storage announced the appointment of Roman Volkov as the head of the company's representative office in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic countries. The storage manufacturer hopes that Volkov will contribute to the development of the company and the introduction of modern storage experience for customers.

I am pleased to join Pure Storage, which develops innovative technologies that inspire our users to follow their unique path of digital business transformation, "says Roman Volkov, commenting on his appointment as head of Pure Storage's Russian office. - We are always looking for new ways to support our customers by responding to their ever-changing needs, such as quickly and easily benefiting from unstructured data. Pure technology is simple, providing customers with choices and helping them innovate. I am happy to continue this work in our country.

Ex-director of the NetApp Roman Volkov headed the Russian office of Pure Storage

According to James Petter, Pure Storage's vice president of international relations, the company is forced to operate in unprecedented conditions around the world. He noted that he is proud of Pure Storage's local teams, which continue to "achieve great results by giving customers new opportunities."

In Russia, we see that customers are responding positively to our goal - to provide them with modern data storage experience and help them benefit from unstructured data, "Petter emphasized.

As reported on Roman Volkov's page on the Linkedin social network, he became the general manager of Pure Storage in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic countries in May 2020, moving from IVA Technologies, in which until April he worked as general director.