Truly Global by Anna N. Schlegel

Anna N Schlegel is Truly Global, she provides an insider’s look at how large companies move into international markets to successfully deliver and scale their product to customers across different cultures and languages. She has unlocked significant new revenue to the organizations she has worked with. In her 25 years of experience leading global expansion in the technology industry, and as Vice-president of Globalization, Anna brought Japan’s NetApp business from ranking number 10 to number 1 in storage.

She has worked extensively to drive global market growth by entering new markets, enabled Joint Ventures in China, and OEM partnerships in Asia and Europe. Her strategy leverages all the product and strategic upfront investment to build a cohesive strategy which leverages the upfront investment for global expansion.

Today Anna N. Schlegel is Vice President of the Global Portfolio-to-Market Lifecycle at NetApp, and has led globalization, product life cycle, and content strategy teams at companies like VMware, VeriSign, Cisco and Xerox for over 30 years. Anna leads a global team of 200, with responsibility for the portfolio to market maturity model supporting more than 100 products, 42,000 customers, across 143 countries.