Andy Vandeveld VP WW Alliances, Commvault

Commvault Systems, Inc. named Andy Vandeveld as VP, WW alliances, effective immediately.

In this position, he will be responsible for strengthening the company’s current alliances, and building new alliances, with cloud and other enterprise technology industry leaders. In addition, he will align alliance strategy with the efforts of its field sales teams, helping to expand revenue and market share.

“Andy’s expertise in building strong partnerships with technology and channel leaders will enable us to further accelerate our move to a partner-led strategy designed to grow and scale our global business,” said Owen Taraniuk, head of WW partnerships and market development, Commvault. “By strengthening our current alliances, developing innovative new partnerships and interlocking our alliance strategies with our sales efforts, Andy will play a key role in creating new revenue opportunities for both Commvault and its partners.”

Vandeveld brings two decades of experience in developing and implementing successful OEM and channel strategies for technology industry leaders. Prior to joining Commvault, he served as VP of global strategic alliances at Veeam Software for around two years, where he led the company’s alliance and partnership strategy. His experience also includes leadership roles running businesses approaching half a billion dollars in revenue at Citrix, Brocade Communications, Juniper Networks and IBM.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English degree from San Diego State University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.

“I’m excited to help lead the effort to bring Commvault’s ‘powerful simplicity’ to increasingly complex enterprise IT environments – environments comprised of dozens of applications, multiple clouds, diverse types of on-premises infrastructure, and thousands of endpoints,” he said. “With the platform for backup and data protection in these complex environments, I look forward to deepening and expanding Commvault’s already extensive global partner ecosystem to empower enterprises to manage data for any purpose, across all its environments.“

Reporting to Taraniuk, Vandeveld will head Commvault’s new WW alliances team, which merges its current OEM and alliances teams.

Commvault Driving Global Growth through a Partner-Led Strategy
This appointment comes on the heels of new partnerships and other recent news demonstrating company’s success and momentum in building a more partner-led growth strategy, including:

The Data Platform being selected by Hewlett Packard Enterprise to power its new HPE GreenLake Backup solution.
New strategic partnership with Google Cloud to help enterprises leverage the range of cloud services available on the Google Cloud Platform.
Joining Cisco’s Solutions Plus program, which now makes it easier for Cisco and its network of resellers to sell and deliver data management solutions.
The launch of ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS.
Recently extended strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, Infinidat and others.

Industry recognising firm’s success in its partner-led strategy:

was named one of the 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Vendors on the 2018 Cloud 100 by CRN, a brand of The Channel company.
Ralph Nimergood was named a CRN Channel Chief for the fourth year in a row.
Regina Wood was recognised as a 2017 Woman of the Channel by CRN.
received a 5-star rating in CRN’s 2017 Partner Program Guide.