Indian-origin Anand Eswaran becomes CEO of global IT firm Veeam Software

Global data manment solutions provider Veeam Software anunced on Friday that company has appointed Anand Eswaran as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Indian-origin Eswaran replaced William H. Largent (Bill Largent) and has also become a member of company's Board of Directors. Earlier, Eswaran worked as RingCentral’s president and Chief Operating Officer (COO).

He has also worked with some of world's top IT companies, including Microsoft, SAP, HP, Vignette (w OpenText), and Braun Consulting (w Fair Isaac). former Executive Vice President at SAP, Eswaran's appointment as company's CEO brings extensive experience and kwledge in building new business models, executing on market expansion, and driving growth with a people-first culture said Largent, who also highlighted how data manment landscape is evolving at an exponential pace. With more than four lakh customers, Veeam crossed $1 billion in ARR (annual recurring revenue) this year.

"Veeam is unequivocal market leader, and is most trusted partner to help customers securely navigate complexity of protecting ir data to keep ir business running; to bolster this position we continue to challenge status quo, invate, and ensure we are anticipating customer needs.

Having someone with Anand’s experience onboard will lead us into a new era of success as we furr accelerate into cloud and evaluate opportunity for Veeam to be a publicly-traded company in future," he added.

Who is Anand Eswaran?

Anand Eswaran completed his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from University of Mumbai and went to University of Missouri-Columbia to study master's in computer science and engineering. Before becoming CEO of Veeam, Eswaran was responsible for Microsoft's enterprise, commercial, and public-sector businesses globally. He worked as Vice President of $5.4 billion Global Services business at SAP. He was also Vice President of Global Professional Services at Vignette and a Senior Manr at Brain Consulting, which is w kwn as Fair Isaac.

Indian origin CEOs

With his new role as CEO of Veeam Software company, Eswaran has joined list of Indian-origin Tech CEOs. Earlier, India-born Parag Agarwal became new Twitter chief, while ors in same list include Arvind Krishna of IBM, Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft; Shantanu Narayen of Adobe Inc among ors.

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(With Inputs from PTI)