HPE Hires Weka VP Keith Moran To Lead North America Storage Sales

‘Based on Keith’s past experience, including his time at Nutanix, I am confident his hire is going to be a big plus for HPE as the company moves to grab storage share and doubles down on AI infrastructure,’ says Advizex CEO C.R. Howdyshell.

HPE has hired Keith Moran, vice president of Americas for AI storage provider Weka, as its new vice president of storage and data services in North America.

Moran, a 26-year industry veteran, said in a LinkedIn post he was making the move to HPE after nearly two-and-a-half years at Weka where he and his team received the “Global Theater of the Year” award from the company in fiscal year 2024.

Moran replaces Adnan Bhutta, who recently moved to lead HPE’s global hybrid cloud ops software sales for the hybrid cloud business.

Moran will report to Worldwide Sales Leader for Storage and Data Services Chris Greenwood, who took the top worldwide HPE storage sales job in July.

Before joining Weka, Moran spent eight years and three months at Nutanix, starting as a regional sales director, then becoming vice president of the central U.S. and finally to senior vice president of Americas from April 2020 to August 2022.

Moran also previously spent nearly seven years as a sales superstar at storage provider NetApp.

Moran’s move to HPE comes as the company is in the midst of an all-out AI cloud native offensive throughout its entire infrastructure stack, including storage, in the wake of its $13.4 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.

HPE is billing its Alletra MP X10000 as a breakthrough AI offering for object storage. In the most recent quarter, HPE Alletra MP sales were up triple digits year over year.

The moves comes just weeks after HPE named Jeff Dolce, a 16-year HPE Aruba sales veteran, as senior vice president of sales at HPE Networking in the Americas.

C.R. Howdyshell, CEO of Independence, Ohio-based Advizex, No. 129 on the 2025 CRN Solution Provider 500, a Fulcrum IT Partners company, said he sees Moran’s hiring as another example of HPE stepping up its North America sales game.

“This is HPE getting more aggressive with top sales leaders like Jeff Dolce and Tom Depalma (a former Dell EMC sales director who joined HPE in 2022),” said Howdyshell. “Jeff Dolce is the real deal and so is Tom DePalma. Based on Keith’s past experience, including his time at Nutanix, I am confident his hire is going to be a big plus for HPE as the company moves to grab storage share and doubles down on AI infrastructure.”

Patrick Shelley, chief technology officer (CTO) at PKA Technologies, a Montvale, N.J. solution provider, said he sees Moran as an aggressive sales leader as HPE builds out its cloud native AI infrastructure sales offensive.

“HPE is the only company that has the server, storage and networking assets to pull together a full AI native infrastructure stack,” he said. “That’s a big HPE advantage as it builds out its cloud native infrastructure portfolio.”

A CIO for a longtime HPE enterprise partner, who did not want to be identified, said he sees the hire as HPE bringing in more AI sales talent to drive its vision forward of “bringing a fully intelligent operationalized AI solution from the edge to the core, reducing management overhead and drastically shortening application delivery times.”