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Scouting report · NTAP

Wissam G. Jabre

  • EVP & Chief Financial Officer, NTAP since 2025-03src

NetApp CFO since March 2025; before that CFO of Western Digital and Dialog

—thin record

Not ranked yet

Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design73operating income, revenue, strategic, individual, relative tsr, time only · 92.9% for · 0.90% of net income
Skin in the game45stake worth $7.6m, 0.7× last year's pay
Age
56src
In the role
2 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
—
Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 3

  • Hiring package: $6,565,500 cash sign-on make-whole, $7.5m of new-hire RSUs and $7.5m of new-hire PBRSUs. FY2025 SCT total was $18.26m for about seven weeks' servicesrc
  • His new-hire PBRSUs vest at 100% of target if he is terminated without cause or leaves for good reason outside a change of control, so that part of the award is guaranteed at target on an involuntary exitsrc
  • Short tenure pattern: he left Western Digital's CFO seat on 2025-02-28 after three years in it, having led the Sandisk separation, and has 18 months at NetAppsrc

In their favour 2

  • No open-market sales since joining. Holdings are vested award shares plus small ESPP purchasessrc
  • Say-on-pay passed with 92.9% of votes cast for and against at the 2026-09-09 meetingsrc

Career

  1. 2025-03 – now
    NetAppsrc
    EVP & Chief Financial Officer
  2. 2022-02 – 2025-02
    Western Digitalsrc
    EVP & Chief Financial Officer
    WDC appointed him 2022-01-24 effective the week of 2022-02-07 (WDC-8K-2022-01-27); he ceased to be CFO 2025-02-28 (WDC-8K-2025-02-03). NetApp's own 8-K says 'from January 2022'. The 10-K credits him with leading the separation into Western Digital and Sandisk
  3. 2016-03 – 2021-08
    Dialog Semiconductor plcsrc
    SVP & Chief Financial Officer
    Until Renesas Electronics acquired Dialog in August 2021
  4. 2014-10 – 2016-03
    Advanced Micro Devicessrc
    Corporate Vice President, Finance

Undated in the sources

  • Freescale Semiconductor; Motorola; Schlumbergersrc, Finance positions of increasing responsibility; began at Schlumberger in engineering and finance roles

Not located: 2021-08 to 2022-02, between Dialog's sale and Western Digital, not described. Dates and titles of the Freescale, Motorola and Schlumberger roles before October 2014 were not located in any source searched

Achievements

  • Third public-company CFO seat in ten years: Dialog Semiconductor (2016-2021), Western Digital (2022-2025), NetApp (2025-)src
  • At Western Digital, led the separation of the company into two public companies, Western Digital and Sandisk (the 10-K's description)src
  • CFO of Dialog Semiconductor through its sale to Renesas Electronics in August 2021src
  • FY2026, his first full year: the committee credited him with financial discipline and streamlining the finance organisation, but set his individual modifier at 90%src

Education

  • American University of Beirut, BE Electrical Engineeringsrc
  • Columbia Business School, MBA Financesrc

Background

  • Family No family relationship with any NetApp director or executive officer and no Item 404 transactions (appointment 8-K); Western Digital's 2022 appointment 8-K said the samesrc
  • Boards Director of MKS Inc. since November 2024, on its audit committeesrc
  • Other CFA charterholdersrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

10
  1. Filing NetApp DEF 14A for the 2026 annual meeting (accession 0001193125-26-321210) · 2026-07-28
  2. Filing NetApp DEF 14A for the 2025 annual meeting, Fiscal 2025 Management Team Transition (0000950170-25-098850) · 2025-07-25
  3. Filing NetApp 10-K for fiscal 2026, Information About Our Executive Officers (0001193125-26-259683) · 2026-06-05
  4. Filing NetApp 8-K Item 5.02, appointment of Wissam Jabre as EVP & CFO (0001193125-25-014441) · 2025-01-28
  5. Filing NetApp 8-K Items 3.03/5.03/5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001193125-26-389273) · 2026-09-11
  6. Filing Western Digital 8-K Item 5.02, appointment of Wissam G. Jabre as EVP & CFO (0001193125-22-019801) · 2022-01-27
  7. Filing Western Digital 8-K Item 5.02, interim CFO named; Jabre ceases to be CFO 2025-02-28 (0001193125-25-019288) · 2025-02-03
  8. Filing MKS Instruments 8-K Exhibit 99.1, Jabre appointed to the board (0001193125-24-251012) · 2024-11-05
  9. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1002047 (FY2026 10-K, 0001193125-26-259683) · 2026-06-05
  10. Filing Form 4, Wissam G. Jabre (reporting CIK 1903967), RSU vesting of 2026-08-15 (0001193125-26-355805) · 2026-08-18