As Senior Vice President of Commercial, Partners & Ecosystems at NetApp, Alvaro leads the company’s expanded worldwide partner organization and commercial strategy. With partners central to NetApp’s growth strategy, he is responsible for advancing a unified ecosystem approach across every route to market—including distributors, VARs, global systems integrators, independent software vendors, managed service providers, hyperscalers, and strategic alliances. His organization is designed to accelerate growth, scale innovation globally, and earn customer trust and preference to strengthen NetApp’s market and industry presence.

A global technology executive with more than 30 years of experience, Alvaro is known for scaling revenue, building strategic partnerships, and leading go-to-market transformation. Prior to NetApp, he held senior leadership roles at Microsoft, including Vice President of Global ISV – Commercial Solutions and Breadth, where he drove global business development and partner strategy with leading software companies. He is recognized for industry leadership, strong teams, trusted partnerships, and sustained customer and business impact.