DDN hires Chief Revenue Officer

DDN has appointed Kevin Delane as its President and Chief Revenue Officer.

He comes from being EVP For Platform Sales at Salesforce, which acquired the SaaS backup Own Company, where Delane was COO, in late 2024. Prior to that, Delane had been Cohesity’s CRO, and at Everpure as VP w-w Sales before that.

Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder of DDN, said: “DDN is entering a defining chapter. 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 will lead global revenue strategy, go-to-market execution, marketing and customer success at DDN. Interestingly DDN already had a President prior to Delane’s appointment; co-founder Paul Bloch. He’s still listed as DDN’s president on its leadership webpage which doesn’t yet show Delane’s arrival as President and COO.

Since receiving its $300 million Blackstone private equity investment in January last year, DDN has hired a slew of new execs.

Chief Product Officer Omer Asad came on board as did VP of Product Management Chris Schin, both with HPE stints in their CVs. Bhaskar Manickam was appointed as the Director of Product Management in February as well, and he also came from HPE, where he was a near-17 year veteran.

Guido Torrini became DDN’s Chief Financial Operating Officer, a combined CFO and COO role, in February. We’re told that, most recently, as CFO of OneTrust, Torrini led profound operational and business transformation at one of the fastest-growing companies in privacy, security, and data governance.

At that time, Bouzari said: “We are scaling quickly and building for the future. Guido brings the financial leadership and operational rigor to strengthen our foundation and prepare DDN for our next phase of global growth.”

Mohsen Moazami was appointed as DDN's vice chairman, although not a board member, also in February. His role is deepening global customer relationships, expanding government and sovereign engagements, and strengthening the company’s long-term positioning with the investment community.

We understand that Robert Triendl, SVP International at DDN and an 18-year veteran at the company, will report to Delane.

So that's product management strengthened, the financial side and operations bolstered, and now sales boosted.

Give Delane a year at least to get DDN’s sales rocking and rolling faster, as the hoped-for AI inferencing boom takes off, and we speculate we might see a DDN IPO in late 2027/early 2028 as Torrini and Moazami punt financial good news to potential investors.