Vijay Ramaswamy VP Product Marketing, Actifio

Actifio, Inc. appointed veteran technology and business leader Vijay Ramaswamy as VP of product marketing. 

He will report to Chandra Reddy, head of product marketing.

Ramaswamy was most recently co-founder of CloudLanes, a Cervin & Microsoft Ventures-backed hybrid cloud platform acquired by Druva. In leading CloudLanes’ marketing and business development, he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s go-to-market strategies, including solutions engineering and business development. CloudLanes was recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in 2018 in the storage category. 

Brian Reagan, Actifio CMO, said: “With more than 20 years of industry experience, Vijay brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud, infrastructure and data protection. We are excited to welcome Vijay onto the Actifio team. His experience as a leader in promoting innovative solutions – from virtualization to storage and infrastructure management to cloud strategies – will help us continue to spread the word about Actifio’s ground-breaking approaches to some of the greatest challenges facing modern organizations.” 

Ramaswamy said: “As customers continue to modernize their applications in the cloud, they are adopting a DevOps approach with an agile data framework of ‘data anywhere’ to help drive business agility. There is no one better suited to address this need than Actifio. I am excited to be part of this journey and fuel further adoption of multi-cloud copy data management.”

Ramaswamy has previously held positions in product marketing at Hitachi Data Systems, Veritas, Hewlett Packard, Compaq, and Digital Equipment Corporation.