Veeam Software, a company in Modern Data Protection, today announced the appointment of Dustin Driggs as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Driggs will lead Veeam’s global financial function including strategy and reporting as Veeam continues to gain market share and provide best-in-class secure backup and fast, reliable recovery that keeps businesses running.
Driggs is an accomplished finance leader with more than 30 years of experience in successfully building and managing large multinational businesses. He joins Veeam from Barracuda Networks where he worked for over 16 years, most recently as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President leading the finance and accounting function. Before Barracuda Networks, Driggs held senior leadership roles at Cisco Systems and PwC.
Dustin Driggs, CFO at Veeam said “Veeam is helping to keep businesses running when the unexpected happens, whether it’s ransomware, natural disasters, human error, outages, or a cyber-attack. That’s an incredible value proposition that in turn creates huge opportunity in a fast-growing market.”
Driggs said “I’m excited to join such a talented and innovative team and look forward to the opportunity to contribute to Veeam’s continued global success.”
Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam said “Dustin brings great experience, insights and skills to Veeam.”
Eswaran said “With more than 5,000 employees, 450,000 customers and well over $1B in ARR, it’s an exciting time in our development and evolution; we’re growing rapidly by keeping businesses running. In a digital world, our value proposition of proactively protecting data across every type of environment and helping companies rapidly recover from unexpected events is incredibly critical to every organization. Dustin is a valuable addition to our strong leadership team at Veeam, and I’m confident his expertise and experience will make a great impact here.”
Driggs succeeds Chuck Garner who is leaving Veeam after successfully leading the company’s finance, strategy, and operations functions and having completed its $5 billion sale to Insight Partners in 2020.
Garner commented “I have enjoyed partnering with our leadership team and investors over the last four years as Veeam has achieved record growth and extended its market leadership position.”
Eswaran added “I want to thank Chuck for his leadership and dedication at Veeam. He’s made valuable contributions to the company, and I wish him much-continued success.”
Veeam recently unveiled the NEW Veeam Data Platform, a unified platform with unparalleled hybrid cloud, data protection, and recovery capabilities. The Veeam Data Platform, which comes with Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12, offers top-notch secure storage and quick, dependable recovery services that keep businesses operating. To protect Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes applications across complex and expanding IT environments and the growing set of challenges facing every organisation, such as outages, errors, and ransomware, it brings together the most recent features offered by Veeam into a robust solution that is offered in three enterprise-grade editions.
Veeam plans to showcase its latest offering, the Veeam Data Platform, at VeeamON 2023, a gathering of data recovery professionals, scheduled to happen both online and in Miami, FL from May 22 to 24. Specifically created for backup and recovery experts, the event will offer opportunities to enhance skills, network with peers, and exchange valuable insights with representatives from top companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Registration is currently open for those who wish to attend the in-person event.
