Phil Brace EVP Appliances and SDS, Veritas

Veritas Technologies LLCwww.veritas.com appointed Phil Brace as EVP.

He will lead appliances and SDS business.

Brace is a technology leader with more than 25 years of experience in engineering, product, and general management roles. He comes to Veritas from Seagate Technologies, where he served most recently as president of the cloud Systems and silicon group responsible for the storage systems business and SSD product divisions. He also spent 9 years at LSI Corporation in various leadership positions, including leading LSI’s storage solutions group as EVP. He started his technology journey at Intel, where he spent 12 years, ultimately as GM of server product marketing.

“I’ve spent my career developing and managing market-leading technology products,” he said. “I’m excited to have a role in the launch of the Veritas enterprise data services platform and to bring my experience to bear to accelerate this vision and to have a role in the confidence and trust our customers have in Veritas in terms of protecting their most valuable asset; their data and assuring the availability and performance of their mission critical apps.“

He will report to CEO Greg Hughes in Veritas’ Santa Clara, CA HQs.