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Hatem Naguib

Director at Digi International

Hatem Naguib is the current Director at Digi International. Hatem was previously the Chief Operating Officer at Barracuda from May 2016 to August 2021 and Vice President, Networking and Security at VMware from January 2007 to May 2016.

Hatem has over 20 years of experience in the networking and security industry. Hatem has a proven track record of growing businesses and delivering best-of-breed solutions. Hatem has led teams that have delivered products, cloud ops, support and manufacturing solutions.

Under Hatem’s leadership, the NSX business grew to a $600 million annual runrate with over 1200+ customers within 3 years. Hatem developed the roadmap and product strategy for NSX, which established it as the leading network virtualization and SDN platform in the industry. Hatem also released two dozen reference, design and deployment guides to reduce the sales cycle by 2/3 and gained 1000+ customers in 2 years. In addition, they established the ecosystem strategy and recruited 80+ partners who developed products on the NSX platform. Finally, they released training classes and certifications for over 5000 students to learn deployment, design, architecture and operations with the platform.

Hatem Naguib completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at UC Irvine.

Timeline

  • Director

    Current role