Hitachi Vantara appoints Nathan Knight as new ANZ managing director

Enterprise storage solution and data management company Hitachi Vantara has appointed Nathan Knight to replace Adrian Johnson as vice president and managing director ANZ.

Johnson was promoted to vice president of the company’s Asia Pacific Digital Infrastructure Business Unit, and Knight will report directly him.

Knight’s most recent role was Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group managing director, and he has held previous leadership positions for Acer UK, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Talkingtech and Ingram Micro.

He joins the business bringing two decades of ICT and SaaS leadership experience for manufacturing, distributors and telecommunications companies in New Zealand, the UK, EMEA and Australia.

Knights experience spans change management, business turnaround, growth in competitive markets, and channel experience with multi-cloud computing, analytics, AI, HPC, edge computing and enterprise software.

According to Johnson, “Leveraging data to create value in business and society requires deep industry experience.

“Bringing the best leadership talents to our business ensures that Hitachi Vantara can continue to expand and win in the competitive ANZ market. I believe that Nathan’s enthusiasm, international work experience and successful track record will elevate our ANZ business to the next level.”

Knight’s focus will be on nurturing the partner ecosystem, leading strategic direction and sustaining Hitachi Vantara ANZ’s business growth.

“My 20 plus years’ career in technology underpins my understanding of the transformation that technology can deliver to organisations in the public and private sectors, from enterprise through to SMB,” said Knight.

“I know businesses are on a constant transformational journey to enhance relevance, competitiveness and deliver new services to their customers. I am proud to be joining a company with an exceptional legacy and pedigree in delivering the changes for their customers through continual technology innovation.”

In a LinkedIn post announcing the move this morning, Knight said, “I'm excited to work with a brilliant team to bring data to life for our customers & partners with best-in-class intelligent, autonomous and cloud ready solutions and services. I look forward to working for Adrian Johnson and with ANZ Team to build on the strong local legacy!”