John Graham

John Graham is currently a Partner Technical Leader at Pure Storage, where they lead the North America Partner Technical Managers. They previously served as VP of Solutions Engineering at VMware, leading a team of approximately 190 pre-sales engineering resources for a $1B+ sales region. Prior to that, John held several senior leadership positions at Cisco, including VP of Americas Solution Sales Engineering, where they oversaw teams focused on various technology domains. John began their career at the Internal Revenue Service as a Telecommunications Analyst before spending nearly a decade at First Chicago NBD as VP responsible for the bank's worldwide data communications network. John earned both a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University.