Oussama El-Hilali Senior VP Engineering, Carbonite

Carbonite, Inc. announced the appointment of Oussama El-Hilali as Senior Vice
President of Engineering.

With more than 20 years of experience in software
development, data protection and data integrity, El-Hilali will build and
manage the company’s engineering organizations and will oversee new product
development.

"We are pleased to welcome Oussama to the Carbonite
team," said Carbonite Chairman and CEO David Friend. "Oussama brings
a wealth of experience and proven success in data protection, which is at the
core of Carbonite’s business. We look forward to leveraging this expertise to
lead our world-class engineering organization and ensure we continue to deliver
on our commitment to secure online backup and recovery for our customers."

El-Hilali previously served as VP at Symantec
for NetBackup Engineering, overseeing data protection and storage
engineering. In this role, he was responsible for planning, development and
release of Symantec’s flagship NetBackup family of products to enable
organizations to simplify information management while reducing data stores. He
also led the development and integration of the deduplication
technology in NetBackup and other Symantec products.

Prior to this, El-Hilali was Director of Product Management
at Veritas, where he helped enhance the company’s data management products
through product definition based on customer and partner interaction and
technology acquisitions. Here, he led the product management team for NetBackup
and helped set the disk backup strategy and initial disk option pricing for the
organization. El-Hilali has also held senior consulting and software
development roles at companies including Keane, Object Systems and Sanofi
Diagnostics Pasteur.

El-Hilali holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer
Science and Mathematics from Ripon College in Wisconsin and a Master of Science degree in
Software Engineering from the University
of Saint Thomas in Minnesota. Notably, he co-authored Digital Data Integrity: The Evolution from Passive Protection to Active
Management.