Dustin Driggs CFO, Veeam

Veeam Software, Inc. appointed Dustin Driggs as CFO.

He will lead global financial function, including strategy and reporting, as the company continues to gain market share and provide secure backup and fast, reliable recovery that keeps businesses running.

He is a finance leader with more than 30 years’ experience in building and managing large multinational businesses. He joins from Barracuda Networks where he worked for over 16 years, most recently as CFO and SVP leading the finance and accounting function. Prior to that, he held senior leadership roles at Cisco Systems and PwC.

“Veeam is helping to keep businesses running when the unexpected happens, whether it’s ransomware, natural disasters, human error, outages or a cyber-attack. That’s an incredible value proposition that, in turn, creates huge opportunity in a fast-growing market,” he said . “I’m excited to join such a talented and innovative team and look forward to the opportunity to contribute to Veeam’s continued global success.“

“Dustin brings great experience, insights and skills to Veeam,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO. “With more than 5,000 employees, 450,000 customers and well over $1 billion in ARR, it’s an exciting time in our development and evolution; we’re growing rapidly by keeping businesses running. In a digital world, our value proposition of proactively protecting data across every type of environment and helping companies rapidly recover from unexpected events is incredibly critical to every organization. Dustin is a valuable addition to our strong leadership team at Veeam, and I’m confident his expertise and experience will make a great impact here.”

Driggs succeeds Chuck Garner who is leaving after successfully leading the company’s finance, strategy, and operations functions and having completed its $5 billion sale to Insight Partners in 2020.

Garner said: “I have enjoyed partnering with our leadership team and investors over the last four years as Veeam has achieved record growth and extended its market leadership position.”

Eswaran added: “I want to thank Chuck for his leadership and dedication at Veeam. He’s made valuable contributions to the company, and I wish him much continued success.”