Former Barracuda CFO joins Veeam's executive board

Following 16 years of service Dustin Driggs has joined Veeam as their new CFO

Veeam has appointed Dustin Driggs as their new chief financial officer (CFO) as they aim to "expand global presence and growth".

Driggs has been working as a finance leader for more than 30 years. He joins Veeam from Barracuda Networks where he had been working for 16 years as CFO and senior vice president.

Prior to Barracuda Networks, Driggs held senior leadership roles at Cisco Systems and PwC.

He commented on his appointment, "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.

"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."

Veeam CEO, Anand Eswaran, added that, "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 organisation.

"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."

Chuck Garner, who held the position before Driggs' appointment will be leaving Veeam after leading the company's finance, strategy and operations functions for just over four years.

In this time, he completed Veeam's $5bn sale to Insight Partners in 2020.

Garner said, "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."

Driggs joins following Veeam's new Data Platform launch, which they claim will be "delivering more advanced data security, recovery, and hybrid cloud capabilities". The Veeam Data Platform, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12, aims to provide best-in-class secure backup and fast reliable recovery that keeps business running.