Thorsten Freitag Chief Revenue Officer, Druva

Druva, Inc. announced two senior leadership appointments:

• Thorsten Freitag as chief revenue officer (CRO)
• Sherry Lowe as chief marketing officer (CMO)

Thorsten Freitag is a seasoned sales executive with more than two decades of sales, management and finance experience. As CRO, he will have direct worldwide responsibility for revenue generating and customer-facing Druva teams. He will align company-wide departments to optimize sales and drive revenue growth.

Before joining Druva, he founded and served as CEO at Valesco Ventures, where he established international sales subsidiaries, accelerated topline growth and improved profitability for some of the most innovative technology companies in the IT infrastructure and security space. Prior to Valesco Ventures, he was EVP of WW field operations at Infoblox. During his tenure, the Infoblox market share grew to more than 50%, with all competitors holding less than one-third of the market share.

Previously in his career, Freitag served as SVP EMEA at F5 Networks in Munich, Germany. He has also led global sales and operations teams at Cisco, serving as MD for Sub-Saharan Africa, EVP of Korea and sales manager for Germany.

He has a B.S. degree in Management Information Systems from AKAD Hochschule Lahr.

Sherry Lowe is a veteran marketing executive with experience across cloud and platform technology providers, including most recently Splunk. As CMO, she will oversee global marketing strategy and broaden awareness worldwide.

She brings 20 years of marketing leadership and enterprise software experience to Druva. Most recently, she was the VP of WW corporate marketing and communications at Splunk. She brings extensive marketing, branding, public relations, and demand generation experience, and will play a critical role in the company’s growth. While at Splunk, she built a corporate marketing team of more than 50 employees and drove strategy across public relations, content marketing, demand generation, customer marketing, brand, website and global events. She was a pivotal member of the Splunk IPO team, one of the largest tech IPOs of 2012, leading its corporate marketing and communications teams during the transition to a public company.

Prior to Splunk, she served as VP marketing at MarkLogic, where she led all inbound and outbound marketing programs. She also had held various marketing positions at Actian (formerly Ingres), Savvion (acquired by Progress Software) and Business Objects (acquired by SAP). Prior to becoming a Silicon Valley marketing executive, she was a journalist at several television stations.

She has degrees from AZ State University and Indiana State University.

Freitag and Lowe report directly to founder and CEO Jaspreet Singh.

“Naming Thorsten as our CRO is testament to Druva’s focus on operational priorities, accelerating international growth and company momentum,” said Singh. “More organizations around the globe are seeking a trusted solution for cloud data protection and management. We are excited to welcome an executive with global experience who will guide Druva through significant product and customer growth, and work across departments to optimize sales. Thorsten is a perfect fit for Druva’s culture and his leadership style and personality will bring out the best in our employees.”

He added: “We’re also thrilled to be adding Sherry to our team as our CMO. As a Software-as-a-Solution (SaaS) provider for cloud data management, our goal is to build a global brand as we help enterprises to meet the challenges of storing more data in increasingly complex cloud environments. With Sherry, we found a strong, proven leader to extend our brand in line with Druva’s growth trajectory.”