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Sheila Rohra is the dynamic CEO of Hitachi Vantara, a data storage, infrastructure, and digital solutions company that combines the operations of Hitachi Data Systems. She leads hybrid cloud initiatives with a customer-first vision, bringing over two decades of experience at NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Cisco, while supporting education-focused social causes.
Sheila Rohra was always curious, passionate about the engineering field, and this led her to a career in technology that started early. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and was among the Dean's List students. Her studies developed her logical reasoning and problem-solving skills, thus making her ready for a successful career in technology. Besides being an expert in the technical fields, Sheila also has good leadership qualities making it possible for her to change the organizations and provide impactful results through her efforts.
Sheila Rohra has had an extensive career, which lasts for more than 20 years and includes leadership, strategy, and operational excellence. At Cisco and Bay Networks, she was in charge of business operations and made the company’s products reach the run rates of billions.
At NetApp she became Chief Transformation Officer and made the change enterprise-wide. At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she was in control of a $2B global business unit. Currently, as the CEO of Hitachi Vantara, Sheila is responsible for new ideas and company progress while changing the data infrastructure solutions.
Hitachi Vantara is making use of AI in the areas of IT operations, innovation, hybrid cloud systems optimization, and business efficiency worldwide, thereby transforming its IT operations through AI.
Hitachi iQ: by teaming up with potent partners, Hitachi iQ can provide clients a variety of options, from scaling infrastructure to improving ROI, and eventually accelerating AI projects to unlock their creativity and efficiency in operations over different sectors.
Adopting technologies such as GenAI and Agentic AI: Hitachi Vantara implements these technologies for intelligent automation, predictive insights, and autonomous decision-making in the hybrid cloud systems fed by these technologies, thereby achieving efficiency and simplifying IT management.
Hitachi and Supermicro: In collaboration with Supermicro, Hitachi Vantara is implanting AI compute into VSP One and Hitachi iQ for establishing an enterprise Arena that powerfully and rapidly enhances AI, GenAI, and data lakehouse performance.
Hybrid Cloud Data Orchestration: VSP One, NVIDIA utilization, and hybrid cloud orchestration are combined in Hitachi iQ M Series platform, which allows companies to expand their GenAI workloads with the utmost performance, dependability, and ROI indeed.
AI Data Hub: EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service offers a single lakehouse with AI and BI tools, which makes machine learning faster and less costly, and it also provides quicker insights that support smooth operations.
Sheila Rohra has driven transformative business results, enhancing revenue, margins, and customer experiences. At NetApp, her leadership became a case study at Stanford GSB. At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she managed a major data infrastructure business. As CEO of Hitachi Vantara, she advances hybrid cloud innovation and data-driven insights.
Sheila Rohra is not linked to any public controversies or scandals that might have affected her personal life. She is credited with her professional leadership, technological innovation, and appeal for social causes, keeping a reputation of being honest and ethical.
