DDN Appoints Guido Torrini as Chief Financial Operating Officer to Lead Next Phase of Global Growth

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, today announced the appointment of Guido Torrini as Chief Financial Operating Officer. In this role, Torrini will lead finance and operations, overseeing capital strategy, long-range planning, global supply chain, performance management, and enterprise systems as DDN accelerates global growth.

Torrini joins at a pivotal moment for DDN. As enterprises, cloud providers, and research institutions scale AI, demand is surging for high-performance AI infrastructure and data platforms capable of supporting large-scale training and inference workloads. With DDN powering many of the world’s most demanding AI and high-performance computing environments, the company is expanding rapidly and investing in the operational discipline required to scale its global AI infrastructure platform for long term growth.

“DDN has built the trusted data foundation powering the most advanced AI initiatives in the world,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-founder of DDN. “We are scaling quickly and building for the future. Guido brings the financial leadership and operational rigor to strengthen our foundation and prepare DDN for our next phase of global growth.”

Torrini brings more than 25 years of experience leading finance and operations across global technology companies. He began his career at Cisco and Dell during the rise of networking and infrastructure at scale. He later held senior finance leadership roles at Groupon and Gympass, supporting high-growth global consumer platforms. At Celonis, he helped guide the company through a significant phase of enterprise software expansion and value creation. Most recently, as CFO of OneTrust, Torrini led profound operational and business transformation at one of the fastest-growing companies in privacy, security, and data governance.

Throughout his career, Torrini has partnered with founders and executive teams to help high-growth technology companies scale into durable global enterprises, strengthening financial discipline, operational execution, and long-term value creation.

“DDN is delivering the critical data intelligence infrastructure organizations need to deploy AI at scale—across enterprises, governments, and the world’s most demanding AI factories,” said Torrini. “I’m excited to join at a moment when AI is reshaping the technology landscape and redefining the global economic order—and when DDN is uniquely positioned to help lead what comes next.”

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DDN is the world’s leading AI and data intelligence company, powering the world’s most demanding AI workloads by keeping GPUs fed, efficient, and productive—at massive scale—so organizations can train, checkpoint, and infer faster with less footprint and power while achieving tremendous ROI from their AI investments. From hyperscalers and next-gen cloud builders to enterprises, governments, and research institutions, DDN delivers proven data intelligence at exabyte scale across hundreds of thousands of GPUs—so customers can deploy AI with confidence, accelerate time-to-value, and realize outsized returns. Discover more at ddn.com.

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