Brian Hamel joins Veritas as Executive Vice President Worldwide Field Operations

Veritas Technologies has announced that Brian Hamel has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations.

Brian started his career at IBM as an enterprise account manager and over a 30-year career held Infrastructure leadership positions in the US, Asia, and Europe. More recently, Brian spent approximately five years at Oracle as Senior Vice President, Cloud Business Group.

Greg Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, Veritas, said, “I am delighted to welcome Brian Hamel to lead the global sales organisation and continue to attract top talent to Veritas’ leadership team. Brian’s experience in leading global direct sales, channel partners, systems integrators, and cloud service providers will help to even better serve the customers on their data management journeys.”

Brian Hamel, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations, said, “Customers across all industries rely on Veritas to keep their critical information safe and protected from threats such as ransomware. The company is well positioned to help organisations keep pace with the growth and complexity of the cloud as data and workforces become even more distributed. There is an opportunity to drive growth for the company at such a crucial time by helping customers modernise their approach to data protection across their on-prem, hybrid and cloud environments.”