CEO Message To address COVID-19, we acted quickly. In January 2020, we assembled a crisis management For the benefit of our team and by executing our Business Continuity Plan, our team was able to ensure uninterrupted employees, customers, delivery of our products and services to customers around the world; I could not be prouder of our response to support our customers during a particularly challenging time. Most of our partners, shareholders, global workforce shifted to work from home, and we extended support to our communities by matching employee donations to COVID-19 response organizations. and neighbors, we are Later in 2020, as the social justice movement took root, NetApp’s leaders and teams worked committed to effective diligently to transform positive intent into action. NetApp condemns intolerance, injustice, and environmental, social, violence. As I’ve shared with our employees, we want NetApp to be a sanctuary — a place and governance (ESG) where employees, customers, and partners can be themselves, feel safe, and be celebrated, encouraged, and respected precisely for who they are. management. In this same vein, we continue to improve how we listen to and learn from our underrepresented colleagues — for only from genuine understanding comes empathy, and from empathy begins the process of rooting out bias. Together, NetApp is more than 11,000 strong. And when we all stand shoulder-to-shoulder in opposition to racism and injustice, we can reach our aspiration to make ourselves better people, our communities better places, and contribute to a better world for everyone. George Kurian Chief Executive Officer
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