CIO Symposium Contributor

Bio

John Welch is a Director for the Americas Cloud Alliances Organization. John leads a team of Alliances Cloud Specialist in the AMS. His team supports and enables HP’s Alliances Partners in expanding their sales programs to incorporate HP Helion Cloud to deliver outcome based solutions that address the market’s growing need for improved agility, flexibility and cost savings.

John joined HP in 2005 as part of HP’s StorageWorks Division, from the acquisition of AppIQ. John was responsible for leading the Storage Essentials Sales Team for the Americas until 2008 when he moved into the HP Software Alliances organization.

John has held many sales and management positions in the Storage and Software Industry for companies like EMC, SUN, NCR, HighGround and Dot Hill.

John holds a BS double major in Finance and Marketing from Boston College. He resides in Leawood, Kansas with his wife and three children.