Veeam promotes Mohamad Rizk as Middle East and CIS Regional Head

Veeam® Software, a provider of backup, recovery, and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, today announced the appointment of Mohamad Rizk as Regional Director for the Middle East and CIS region. In this new role, which plays to his strengths as a leader with strong business acumen, Rizk will support Veeam’s continued investment and strong presence in the region, as well as look to grow the company’s market share and revenues through the planning and execution of sales and channel strategies.

Rizk has an illustrious career helping regional enterprises with their digital transformation journeys through the rollout of technologies, primarily relating to virtualization, storage, and data management and protection. He has a strong technical sales background and 14 years of industry experience. He joined Veeam in 2013 as a Presales Consultant in Saudi Arabia and eventually rose to the position of Senior Director, Technical Sales – Middle East, Russia, and CIS, where he was instrumental in the planning and execution of several large-scale projects that helped Veeam’s reputation as an industry leader in the Modern Data Protection domain.

Commenting on the appointment, Vasily Vaganov, Regional Vice President, North Eastern EMEA and Middle East at Veeam says, “Mohamad is an experienced manager and one of the cornerstones of Veeam’s success in the Middle East, which we see as a strategic market. There are many large projects in the region that have been fulfilled under his management. We’ve seen steady double digit growth for many consecutive years in line with rising adoption of our technologies as Middle East companies aim to manage, protect and derive maximum value from their most prized asset – data. I have no doubts Mohamad’s holistic business acumen and special expertise in Enterprise IT will help drive further growth and strengthen our leadership position addressing Modern Data Protection needs for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes workloads.” 

“During the last couple of years, digital transformation initiatives have accelerated in response to the need to support a hybrid workplace. Cloud, virtualization, Kubernetes and SaaS have seen rapidly growing adoption by enterprises who seek to bring flexibility, scalability, simplicity and cost benefits into their IT infrastructures by moving away from legacy data centre architectures. Against this backdrop, I am delighted to be taking on this new role and continuing my journey with Veeam at an exciting time when the company is leading innovation in the area of Modern Data Protection across all environments. Our company’s value proposition is simple – by guaranteeing the availability and security of data, businesses have greater control and can make better business decisions to fulfil Digital Transformation initiatives. I look forward to leading Veeam’s next phase of growth in the region,” says Mohamad Rizk.

Rizk has been living in Dubai since 2017. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Lebanese American University (LAU), where he also worked as a teaching and research assistant and co-authored several scientific publications in reputable journals. Prior to joining Veeam, Rizk worked as a Solution Architect at Nesma Advanced Technology, where he led digital transformation projects for some of Saudi Arabia’s largest corporations. Furthermore, during his professional career, he has covered and worked in a variety of regions, including the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.