Tom Mendoza (born November 21, 1950) is an American business executive and public speaker.

Mendoza helped establish the culture that allowed NetApp to be ranked #1 in Fortune Magazine’s "100 Best Companies To Work For" in 2009.

[3] Mendoza retired from NetApp in 2019[4] and currently serves on the Boards of Varonis Systems, VAST Data, mParticle.

Mendoza frequently speaks on corporate culture and leadership to a wide variety of audiences which have included as Stanford University, where he has been a guest lecturer since 1997, Notre Dame, Harvard and the United States Military Academy as well as to the United States Marine Corps, keynotes at Oracle World and numerous other industry events.

Mendoza holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and is an alumnus of the Stanford Executive Program (SEP).