Virtual Conference \ Speakers & Guests
Henry Axelrod
Principal Partner Solutions Architect
AWS
Michelle Bailey
GVP/GM and Research Fellow Datacenter and Cloud
IDC
Chris Barry
Vice President, WW Enterprise Commercial & Strategy
Microsoft
Ryan Behiel
Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Brett Belcastro
DJ 2nd Nature
Tim Burlowski
Senior Director, Product Management
Veritas
Renee Carlisle
Sr. Principal Product Manager
Veritas
Mark Coletta
Senior Product Manager
Veritas
Anthony Cusimano
Moderator | Cloud Marketing Manager
Veritas
Joseph D'Angelo
Distinguished Engineer
Veritas
Tony Davids
National Architect
Veritas
Jamie Doherty
Moderator | Senior Marketing Manager, Global Campaigns
Veritas
Sam Elbeck
Director, Digital Compliance
Veritas
Lisa Erickson
Director, Product Management
Veritas
Tom Harwood
Product Manager
Veritas
John Hink
Sr. Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Lissa Hollinger
VP, Product and Solutions Marketing
Veritas
Greg Hughes
Chief Executive Officer
Veritas
Terika Hutchinson
Moderator | AMS Sales Enablement
Veritas
Dr. Michio Kaku
Physicist, Futurist, Bestselling Author
City University of New York
Anand Kayande
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Veritas
Captain Scott Kelly
Former NASA Astronaut, Engineer and Naval Aviator
Vamshi Kommineni
Principal Group Product Manager
Microsoft
Liji Kuruvilla
Sr. Prin. Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Brian Maher
Senior Principle Product Marketing Manager
Veritas
Doug Matthews
Vice President of Product Management
Veritas
Paul Mayer
Product Manager
Veritas
Matthew Miersen
Moderator | Senior Manager, Sales Empowerment
Veritas
Kevin Miller
General Manager, Amazon S3
AWS
Deepak Mohan
Executive Vice President, Veritas Products Organization
Veritas
Christopher Moreau
Senior Principal Product Manager
Veritas
Sandra Moulton
Director, TME
Veritas
Beatrice Mukantabana
Moderator | Principal Systems Engineer
Veritas
Hai Nguyen
Moderator | Director, Product Management
Veritas
Greg Nuss
Senior Director, NBU Product Management
Veritas
Himanshu Rao
Senior Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft
Alex Restrepo
Moderator | Senior Manager Solutions Marketing
Veritas
Julio Rivera
Sr. Technology Practice Manager
Veritas
Rich Rose
Senior Distinguished Architect
Veritas
Alex Sakaguchi
Moderator | Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing
Veritas
Dan Sanden
Sr. Principal Product Manager
Veritas
Sreeharsha Sarabu
Staff Product Manager
Veritas
David Scott
Director of Product Management
Veritas
Anna Simpson
Director, Product Management
Veritas
Anuwat Sisaleumsak
Moderator | Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Veritas
Chris Stapenhurst
Americas Practice Manager, Insights
Veritas
Roger Stein
Product Marketing Manager
Veritas
Steve Thoennes
Moderator| Enablement Architect
Veritas
Bradley Tips
Senior Director, Technology Alliances
Veritas
Grammy Award Winning Band - Train
Justin van der Riet
Head: IT Infrastructure
Tracker Connect
Victor Villegas
Moderator | Director of Marketing Programs
Veritas
Doward Wilkinson
Senior Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Stacy Wynn
Moderator | Sales Enablement
Veritas
Matthew Yee
Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Steve Young
Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback, Co-Founder and Managing Director at HGGC
Maya Zhou
Software Engineer
Veritas
Henry Axelrod
Principal Partner Solutions Architect
AWS
Henry Axelrod is a Principal Partner Solutions Architect and Tech Lead for the Storage Partner Segment at AWS. Henry has more than 20 years industry experience working in various roles and managing a variety storage and backup technologies. Prior to coming to AWS Henry managed multi PB storage and backup environments.
Michelle Bailey
GVP/GM and Research Fellow Datacenter and Cloud
IDC
Michelle Bailey is Group Vice President, General Manager and IDC Research Fellow for IDC’s BuyerView Research and Social Impact Research. Her focus is on articulating the short-and long-term impacts of emerging and disruptive technologies for Enterprise IT vendors, IT professionals and Cloud Service Providers. This includes building market models, conducting voice of the customer research and leveraging advanced data analytic capabilities to provide clients with prescriptive guidance on how digital transformation will impact their business as well as providing recommendations for how to future-proof their organizational strategy. Michelle is a sought-after speaker at industry and user events around the world and is frequently quoted in leading business and technology publications.
Chris Barry
Vice President, WW Enterprise Commercial & Strategy
Microsoft
Chris Barry is an established sales leader with experience spanning sales, product marketing and management expertise.
As Vice President for Enterprise Commercial & Strategy at Microsoft, Chris is responsible for the sales enablement strategy for Microsoft’s largest enterprise customers. His team is focused on maximizing impact in top accounts by Industry, scaling solutions through worldwide sales teams and partner ecosystems and defining strategies to innovate with customers in their Industries.
Prior to taking this role in 2019, Chris served as Vice President of the Enterprise Commercial Team at Microsoft Canada and was responsible for strategic relationships with customers and managing a large sales team.
Chris has been at Microsoft for 18 years and began his Microsoft journey in 2002 in the Windows Product Marketing Group where he was part of the team that launched the Tablet PC. He subsequently held a series a product management and marketing roles in the Office Division marketing group primarily focused on enterprise sales models and enablement. He was GM of Microsoft’s U.S. Enterprise and Partner Group in the Pacific Northwest before his role in Canada.
Chris has a BS in Political Science from Santa Clara University and a MBA from Duke University.
Ryan Behiel
Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Ryan is from Calgary, Canada and has been with the Veritas Technical Marketing team since 2018. With nearly 20 years in the IT industry, Ryan has held multiple roles in development, consulting, sales engineering and technical marketing. Prior to joining Veritas in 2012 as part of the sales engineering team, Ryan held various roles with Veeam, IBM, and Fujitsu and has worked with multiple organizations across several industry verticals. Ryan is currently focused on Veritas InfoScale and the overall Veritas availability and resiliency portfolio.
Brett Belcastro
DJ 2nd Nature
Raised in the heart of the Detroit music scene, Brett spent the early 90s in the clubs. He was waging and winning DJ battles before he was old enough to order a drink. His remixes became hits from coast to coast. Soon he was incorporating visual media into the mix.
DJ 2nd Nature has become an international phenomenon and a true pioneer of an art form that he has helped elevate to unprecedented heights. His unique ability to craft inventive, dynamic multimedia mashups that are as entertaining as they are relevant has led to several collaborations with some of the world’s biggest brands, including Under Armour. He combines modern pop and dance music, film and television clips, and sales-focused messaging to create dynamic openings and interstitial presenter play-ons, all live on stage. From open to closing and at every transitional moment in between, he anchors the flow while bringing an undeniable spark that turns a meeting and corporate event into a thrilling, sense-filling media experience.
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Tim Burlowski
Senior Director, Product Management
Veritas
Tim Burlowski serves as a Senior Director of Product Management for Veritas Appliances overseeing a team of Product Managers. Tim joined Veritas in 1998 and worked in both engineering and product management to improve customer experience and increase both scale and resilience for NetBackup and Appliances customers.
Renee Carlisle
Sr. Principal Product Manager
Veritas
Reneé has been with Veritas Technologies for ten years in various focus areas within the NetBackup Product Management Team. In her current role she is the Product Manager responsible for all Virtualization and Kubernetes technologies. She has been a key driver of our Kubernetes strategy and is passionate about NetBackup and the future of virtualization. Prior to working for Veritas she was a customer running a large scale NetBackup operation as well as a partner implementing, designing, and integrating NetBackup in many different companies.
Mark Coletta
Senior Product Manager
Veritas
I have over 25 years in the IT industry, 15 of which in the Data Protection sector. At Veritas, I am focused on a NetBackup and how-to bring ease of use and automation and overall operational simplicity for our customers.
Anthony Cusimano
Moderator | Cloud Marketing Manager
Veritas
Anthony Cusimano currently serves as Cloud Marketing Manager at Veritas Technologies. He has spent his entire professional life performing a plethora of roles at Veritas - starting in quality assurance automation and quickly moving into full-on software engineering. Anthony cut his teeth building a greenfield product that stretched the limits of what a modern DevOps program could look like. After project completion, he moved into a sales architect position focusing on cloud solutions - changing the way the team talked about the next-generation portfolio. Anthony now resides in marketing where he crafts fun new ways to get the good word out about Veritas Enterprise Data Services.
Joseph D'Angelo
Distinguished Engineer
Veritas
Joe D’Angelo is a National Practice Lead and Distinguished Engineer focused on the design, implementation and advocacy of business continuity, High Availability and software defined storage. Having been in the industry for 20+ years, Joe’s experience includes some of the most demanding enterprise verticals from financial services and healthcare to manufacturing and government. Throughout his career Joe has held many positions as both an end-user, pre-sales Channel SE, delivery consultant, Technology Director, Technical Product Manager, SE Manager and Chief Architect. Additionally, he has served as the President of the Symantec/Veritas Upstate NY user group. Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science as well as having held numerous industry certifications from Symantec, Veritas, NetApp, VMware, Oracle/Sun and HP.
Tony Davids
National Architect
Veritas
Tony Davids started as a software engineer, systems manager and engineering lead for a large investment bank. Tony has been working for 18 years at Veritas in Engineering, Product Management and Technical Sales teams.
Jamie Doherty
Moderator | Senior Marketing Manager, Global Campaigns
Veritas
Jamie is a result-driven marketing professional with 20 plus years of experience in both the traditional and digital space. Currently she manages the global demand campaign strategy right here at Veritas.
Sam Elbeck
Director, Digital Compliance
Veritas
Sam Elbeck is the Sr. Director of Business Development and Sales at Veritas covering the Digital Compliance portfolio. Sam is focused on building mutually beneficial relationships using cutting edge technologies to solve our customer’s business challenges as well as sales for archiving, capture, compliance, eDiscovery and supervision solutions. Sam came over with the recent Globanet acquisition where he held different leadership roles. He has led teams on both the technical and business side throughout his career and has helped the organizations he has been a part of become leaders in their respective space. Sam has deep knowledge in regulated industries and speaks regularly at forums and events related to compliance, archiving and eDiscovery. Sam carries an MBA with a concentration in Management Information Systems.
Lisa Erickson
Director, Product Management
Veritas
Lisa Erickson is Director of Product Management at Veritas focused on NetBackup Cloud and Resiliency. She has spent the last 22 years in a variety of roles ranging from IT operations, architecture, consulting and technical, business and strategy product management. Throughout that time, Lisa has had a focus on data protection and recovery across high availability, backup and recovery, disaster recovery from a solution, software and services perspective - with a strong emphasis on cloud and SaaS delivery models in the last decade. In her current role at Veritas, she spends her time on strategy and delivery of cloud and virtualization backup and recovery, disaster recovery and orchestration
Tom Harwood
Product Manager
Veritas
Tom Harwood is a Director of Product Management for Veritas’ InfoScale portfolio. He has more than 35-years of industry experience and has been working exclusively with mission critical application requirements for availability and storage for the past 20-years in various roles: Pre-sales Engineering, System Architecture and Product Management. He holds SNIA and ITIL certifications and has successfully helped companies develop IT Service offerings that are measurable, accountable and tightly integrated with business objectives.
John Hink
Sr. Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
John has been with Veritas since 1999 in various roles in the technical support, services, engineering and product management organizations. He’s worked with practically every major customer in one function or another and is well versed with NetBackup, storage, and many of Veritas' other products.
Lissa Hollinger
VP, Product and Solutions Marketing
Veritas
As VP of Product and Solutions Marketing, Lissa drives Veritas’ go-to-market strategy and oversees its execution for the entire portfolio of offerings. With over 20 years’ experience in multiple areas of enterprise technology, she has held multiple leadership roles in product marketing, product management and corporate marketing.
Greg Hughes
Chief Executive Officer
Veritas
Greg Hughes is the Chief Executive Officer at Veritas. Greg is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience as an executive in enterprise software.
Previously, Greg was the CEO of Serena Software, where he led the successful turnaround and sale to Micro Focus International Plc. Greg has also held executive roles in technology investment firms HGGC and Silver Lake Partners.
Greg came to Silver Lake from Symantec where he served in a variety of senior executive positions, most recently as President of the $4 Billion Enterprise Product Group.
Greg joined Symantec through the acquisition of Veritas, where he was Executive Vice President of Global Services. Prior to Veritas, Greg was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he founded and led the Software Practice.
Greg holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Terika Hutchinson
Moderator | AMS Sales Enablement
Veritas
Terika Hutchinson has been in sales for the past 10+ years. Currently, the Sales Enablement lead for Veritas Mid-Market Commercial & Canada sellers, with a focus on negotiation and overcoming objections. She has a passion for helping people become the best version of themselves.
Dr. Michio Kaku
Physicist, Futurist, Bestselling Author
City University of New York
Guest keynote speaker, Dr. Michio Kaku is a world-renowned Futurist, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York, CBS News Science contributor and best-selling author of four NY Times bestsellers including the Physics of the Future, The Future of the Mind, The Physics of the Impossible, and the Future of Humanity.
In this keynote style session, Dr. Kaku reveals insights and predictions for businesses based on the latest research in science. He will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize business, commerce, the economy, medicine, and our entire way of life post-pandemic. Dr. Kaku will share how AI excels at processing vast amounts of raw data, and then finding unexpected correlations and causes, like identifying an instantaneous early warning system to stop the spread of a future pandemic.
Anand Kayande
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Veritas
Anand Kayande is a technology leader, innovator and collaborator with about 20+ years of extensive experience in product architecture, design, development and delivery of solutions.
Anand is AI, ML evangelist and is involved in driving technology powered products and services, influencing product strategy and productizing ideas.
Anand is involved in various universities program mentoring upcoming engineers.
Anand is currently located in Pune, India and accompanied by wife and son. On personal front he is health and lifestyle enthusiast.
Captain Scott Kelly
Former NASA Astronaut, Engineer and Naval Aviator
Internationally recognized history-making former NASA Astronaut Captain Scott Kelly captivated the world while laying the groundwork for the future of space exploration. An American hero whose contribution to humanity is as far reaching as his out-of-this-world adventure, he now reveals what he learned during his 143 million mile mission—including lessons on leadership and teamwork, personal stories of perseverance, and the path that led him to secure his place in history.
Captain Kelly provides a unique perspective on something that is new to us but all too familiar to him: ISOLATION. Within this presentation, Captain Kelly shares the seven strategies he followed in space to maintain a productive work schedule, to co-exist with his fellow astronauts, and to remain connected to family and friends. Sound familiar?
These strategies are especially useful in a time where our predictive futures will be spent in solitude away from people and the luxury of having access to an outside world.
Vamshi Kommineni
Principal Group Product Manager
Microsoft
Vamshi Kommineni is a Group Product Manager in the Azure Storage Engineering team. In this role, he and his team are responsible for Azure's Object Storage and Azure Backup services including product strategy and growth of the business, working closely with customers, and delivering new features. Vamshi has been at Microsoft for seventeen years in a variety of roles ranging from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager and Program Manager. He has been in the Azure team for thirteen years, beginning in the "Project Red Dog" days when it was a small startup endeavor with less than 25 people. Prior to Azure, he was a developer in the Windows team working on reliability features in the core operating systems division.
Liji Kuruvilla
Sr. Prin. Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Liji joins us from the Data Protection Product Management team with 20 years of experience helping Veritas customers, sales and marketing teams. As Staff Support Engineer, he assisted NetBackup customers resolve technical issues, worked with Engineering teams to fix defects, and scaled the support team using new processes and tools for global collaboration. As a Technical Marketing Engineer, he supports Marketing and Sales teams raise awareness of resilient data protection strategies as customers journey into the hybrid cloud landscape.
Liji also champions the GIVE Employee Resource Group in Central Florida to raise employee awareness and hosts events to meet needs in the local community. Prior to Veritas, Liji spent four years in the aviation industry, and continues to be a flight-sim aficionado.
Brian Maher
Senior Principle Product Marketing Manager
Veritas
Brian has over thirty years in the IT industry that spans roles in engineering, sales support, competitive intelligence, business development, alliance marketing and product marketing with top companies such as: EMC Corporation, Oracle Corporation and Veeam Software. He recently took over the InfoScale Product Marketing Manager role for Veritas, where he will continue to translate technical capabilities into business solutions
Doug Matthews
Vice President of Product Management
Veritas
In his role, Doug leads the product strategy, roadmap, and customer experience for Veritas’ NetBackup (NBU) portfolio, including Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP), and APTARE.
Doug is an experienced Storage and Data Protection business leader with over 25 years of diverse industry experience, which started with his early days in Systems Management at Verizon, Product Engineering at AT&T, and Unix Architecture at HP Enterprise. He then spent 11 years at Symantec as VP of Product Management and Product Development, before rejoining Veritas in April 2019.
Doug holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Excelsior College in Albany, New York.
Paul Mayer
Product Manager
Veritas
Paul Mayer has been innovating in the world of enterprise storage for over thirty years, and for the past fifteen years he has served in various roles in the Veritas Product Management organization. He currently drives all solution strategy related to NetBackup cloud and data center storage, as well as Continuous Data Protection.
Matthew Miersen
Moderator | Senior Manager, Sales Empowerment
Veritas
A 28-year veteran of the technology industry focusing in the area of data management and data protection. He has held multiple roles in sales, sales specialization, technical sales engineering, and most currently sales enablement coaching and training. Most importantly, he specializes in tailoring messaging to be in the meaningful language for sales teams and customers. When not focusing on technology, you can find Matt enjoying the outdoors hiking & camping or in his garage restoring old British sports cars with his sons.
Kevin Miller
General Manager, Amazon S3
AWS
Kevin Miller is currently the global General Manager for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Prior to this role, Kevin has had multiple leadership roles within AWS, including as the General Manager for Amazon S3 Glacier, Director of Engineering for AWS Virtual Private Cloud, and engineering leader for AWS Virtual Private Network and AWS Direct Connect. Kevin was also Technical Advisor to Charlie Bell, Senior Vice President for AWS Utility Computing. Kevin is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Deepak Mohan
Executive Vice President, Veritas Products Organization
Veritas
Deepak Mohan is Executive Vice President of the Veritas Products Organization.
In this role, he is responsible for leading the vision, strategy, and delivery of the Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform. The combined portfolio includes NetBackup, NetBackup Appliances, Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault (EV), InfoScale Software-defined Storage, and other products.
Deepak is an experienced business leader and 30-year veteran of the backup and recovery space who started his career at Cheyenne Software. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering at Carbonite. Prior to that, Deepak served as Senior Vice President of EMC’s Backup and Recovery division.
Before his tenure at EMC, Deepak spent nearly 15 years at Veritas and later Symantec, where he led many of the largest software product groups and introduced several new product offerings.
Deepak holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from New York City College, and a master’s degree in Computer Science from New York University. He also holds two patents in the data protection space.
Christopher Moreau
Senior Principal Product Manager
Veritas
Chris Moreau originally began working with Veritas in 2006 through 2018 and recently rejoined the team in 2020. He has been working for multiple years in Product Management developing and working with Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions including Compliance, eDiscovery and HIPAA compliant messaging solutions. Teaming with teams such as DevOps, Engineering and Support; his focus has been to deliver services which provide features and functionality while also meeting required SLA’s to meet customer and business needs.
Sandra Moulton
Director, TME
Veritas
Sandra Moulton has been with Veritas for 3 years and focuses on emerging technology, NetBackup Flex Scale being the latest. She is the author of several whitepapers, blogs and videos.
Beatrice Mukantabana
Moderator | Principal Systems Engineer
Veritas
Beatrice is a Principal Sales Engineer for Veritas with 15 years of experience helping customers solve their business problems providing solutions that meet their needs.
Hai Nguyen
Moderator | Director, Product Management
Veritas
Hai has been on the Appliances product management team for just shy of ten years. She has launched three generations of the NetBackup 5200 series and two generations of the NetBackup 5300 series appliances along with the Flex appliances. The best part of her job is talking to customers, whether it’s evangelizing a new offering, or getting feedback on how we can do better.
Greg Nuss
Senior Director, NBU Product Management
Veritas
As one of the leaders of the NBU product management team, Greg and his team manage the roadmap and delivery for NetBackup. Greg is a long-time veteran of Veritas with experience with both our appliance and software product lines. Greg also has managed enterprise data management products at Dell/EMC, Commvault, and other leading storage companies.
Himanshu Rao
Senior Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft
Himanshu Rao is Sr. Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft’s US One Commercial Partner (OCP) App & Infrastructure team. As part of the US OCP Tech team, Himanshu leads the SAP on Azure and Server Migration solution areas. He works with Microsoft partners on building their competency and advanced design skills in SAP on Azure and Server Migration by helping them with their Azure migration projects.
Alex Restrepo
Moderator | Senior Manager Solutions Marketing
Veritas
A 21 year veteran of the IT industry Alex Restrepo joined Veritas in 2012 and has had numerous roles within the organization including pre and post sales roles. Currently Alex is helping lead solution messaging around virtualization and ransomware resiliency as part of the Solutions Marketing team.
Julio Rivera
Sr. Technology Practice Manager
Veritas
Julio Rivera is a Veritas Data Protection Practice Lead who serves as a liason and advocate for customers and partners into Veritas. He has been with Veritas with Veritas for 21 years assisting customers with Enterprise NetBackup and appliance deployments and architectures.
Rich Rose
Senior Distinguished Architect
Veritas
Rich Rose is one of the world's leading authorities on enterprise data management, data protection and data compliance reporting and analytics.
Alex Sakaguchi
Moderator | Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing
Veritas
Alex Sakaguchi leads the solutions marketing organization at Veritas and is responsible for articulating the cross-portfolio value proposition related to key strategic priorities for Veritas. These include the Enterprise Data Services Platform positioning for multi-cloud, ransomware resiliency, and virtualization. When not marketing to large Fortune Global organizations, Alex spends his time spearfishing and surfing off the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
Dan Sanden
Sr. Principal Product Manager
Veritas
Dan has over 20 years of software product management experience within the financial, government, and enterprise verticals. He has been at Veritas for just over a year and manages NetBackup’s Security and Compliance related functionality. Prior to Veritas, he spent 8 years at Entrust Datacard leading the secure identity and financial card issuance software product teams.
Sreeharsha Sarabu
Staff Product Manager
Veritas
domains. For the past 16 years at VERITAS, Sreeharsha has architected, engineered, and launched multiple Appliances and Software-defined products. As part of his current role, he is responsible for defining the technical and business strategy for the next-generation data protection solutions including NetBackup Flex Scale and bringing the best technologies to the market addressing the unmet needs of enterprise customers.
David Scott
Director of Product Management
Veritas
David Scott is the Director of Product Management for Veritas Digital Compliance products which include Enterprise Vault, EV.cloud, Veritas Advanced Supervision and eDiscovery Platform.
David has been with Veritas/Symantec for over 25 years and specializes in Archiving, Records Management, Analytics, Classification and eDiscovery with a focus on financial, public sector and healthcare verticals.
David graduated from Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. He currently resides in Yorktown, Virginia with his wife and two daughters.
Anna Simpson
Director, Product Management
Veritas
As the Director of Product Management for Data Protection Management & Insights, Anna oversees solutions delivering operational simplicity. During her tenure at Veritas she has played a leading role in the design and implementation of governance strategies for enterprises globally.
With over 15 years experience, across three different continents she has contributed to successful software startups in spaces ranging from legal to information management. In conjunction with these experiences, as a certified Privacy Professional (CIPP/E and CIPT), she brings an interesting perspective on the global regulatory landscape and increasing governance challenges faced by organizations across all verticals.
Anuwat Sisaleumsak
Moderator | Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Veritas
Anuwat Sisaleumsak joined Veritas in 2012 and held different roles in different organization through the years including Business Critical Services and Technical Field Enablement. He is currently part of the Competitive Intelligence team and Appliance marketing team providing clear analysis of today’s competitive landscape.
Chris Stapenhurst
Americas Practice Manager, Insights
Veritas
As the Insights Practice Manager for the Americas, Chris represents the Veritas Insights portfolio internally to sales, marketing, product management, engineering as well as interfaces directly with clients to solve information related challenges across North, Central and South America. Chris is very active in the Information Governance community attending and participating in conferences, trade shows and public events.
Roger Stein
Product Marketing Manager
Veritas
Roger works on Appliances running NetBackup to simplify Data Protection deployment and infrastructure.
Steve Thoennes
Moderator| Enablement Architect
Veritas
For 20+ years Steve lead technical sales and support teams who protected the world’s information. He brings that point of view into his current role—driving to put the customer conversation first when architecting sales training. Whether you find him on a Zoom call or an ultimate frisbee field, you will be met with a smile.
Bradley Tips
Senior Director, Technology Alliances
Veritas
Brad Tips leads the cloud and technology alliances team for Veritas. The technology alliances team build joint solutions with strategic and technology partners including AWS, Microsoft, VMware, Google Cloud Platform, IBM, SAP, Nutanix, and Pure Storage. In addition, Brad is responsible for the Veritas Technology Ecosystem Program which comprises nearly 100 companies, providing technology integration with the Veritas data management portfolio. Prior to Veritas, Brad held leadership roles in product management at Cisco Systems, where he developed emerging market solutions in IoT, Smart Grid, mobile networks, and IP telephony over his 13-year tenure. Brad holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Technology Marketing, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from St. Lawrence University.
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Justin van der Riet
Head: IT Infrastructure
Tracker Connect
Justin van der Riet is the Head IT infrastructure for Tracker South Africa. Tracker is a leader in telematics solutions, providing vehicle tracking and recovery services for car owners and enterprises vehicle fleets in South Africa.
Victor Villegas
Moderator | Director of Marketing Programs
Veritas
Victor Villegas brings over 20 years of technology solutions and compliance experience to his role as Director of Solutions Marketing, Digital Compliance. Victor is focused on driving solutions marketing for the Veritas Insights portfolio of products and services. Most recently, Victor was part of the Globanet acquisition where he held various leadership roles including overseeing go-to-market strategy as well as leading the marketing, sales and renewals organizations to ensure profitability and successful customer experience. A results-driven professional, Victor focuses on driving marketing strategy to deliver growth while building strategic relationships within the regulated industries.
Doward Wilkinson
Senior Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Doward has been in technology since the middle 70’s, first as an assembler language programmer on the early 8080/8085 chip sets, and then in the field installing industrial robotics. While working in the airline industry for 13 years, Doward learned the importance of a customer centric attitude towards engineering challenges and has made the customer needs a focus first goal. After three years at Commvault as a Systems Engineer, Doward joined Veritas Software in 1999 and spent 19 years there rising to the position of Distinguishes System Engineer. Doward spent time after Veritas at IBM, as a sales specialist in storage software with a focus on backup and recovery. Doward is proud to be back at Veritas and looks forward to contributing to our success and our customers success as part of the PM team. Doward is based in Atlanta with his wife Susan and two children. When not working he likes to make wine as a hobby.
Stacy Wynn
Moderator | Sales Enablement
Veritas
Stacy Wynn brings 15+ years of customer sales, support and enablement experience across multiple industries. Currently leading training for Veritas East Sellers, she prides herself on aligning to the customers needs and business outcomes. She has a philosophy and belief that we need to push the limits of effective coaching for true alignment in this ever-changing world of digital transformation!
Matthew Yee
Technical Marketing Engineer
Veritas
Matthew is from Vancouver, Canada and has been part of the Veritas Technical Marketing team since 2018. Matthew has been in the IT industry for over 20 years and has held various roles including TME at DellEMC on the Isilon team where he also specialized in performance testing with writing and maintenance of a test infrastructure. Matthew has also had roles working as a TME at NetApp with the StorageGRID team and as a Professional Services Consultant with the UK organization. Matthew is currently focused on Veritas InfoScale and the overall Veritas software-defined storage and availability management portfolio.
Steve Young
Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback, Co-Founder and Managing Director at HGGC
Steve serves as Chairman of the Board of five HGGC portfolio companies: IDERA, Integrity, DealerFX, AutoAlert and Innovative. Prior to sale, he also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the firm’s Fund II investment in Serena Software (acquired by Micro Focus International plc) and the Fund I exited investments in hybris Software (acquired by SAP SE) and Sunquest Information Systems (acquired by Roper Technologies).
Prior to the inception of HGGC, Steve's professional football career spanned more than fifteen years in the NFL, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers, where he received numerous accolades, including Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XXIX, Sports Illustrated and Sporting News' Player of the Year from 1992 - 1994 and the NFL's Most Valuable Player for 1992 and 1994. In 2005, Steve was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the first left-handed quarterback to be so honored. When he retired, Steve was the highest-rated quarterback in NFL history and has the distinction of being the only signal caller in league annals to win four consecutive NFL passing titles.
Steve founded and chairs the Forever Young Foundation which is actively involved in children's charities worldwide and is currently the broadcast host as well as the former International Spokesperson for the Children's Miracle Network, which has raised over one billion dollars world-wide to benefit children's hospitals.
Maya Zhou
Software Engineer
Veritas
Maya joined Veritas in the beginning of year 2020. Before Veritas, Maya had 10 years Engineering and PM experiences of various Enterprise Content Management products in IBM.