How AI Expands Cyber Risk Across the Enterprise

Emilee Tellez is a senior technologist for product strategy at Veeam. She has 10 years of IT experience, with over eight of those years spent at Veeam. Based in Mesa, AZ, she has supported both commercial and public sector customers in the desert region, spanning from New Mexico to Hawaii. She also helps customers work on their data protection and disaster recovery strategies for the ever-changing modern datacenter. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, and holds certifications in AWS, VMware, and Veeam.

Brad Linch is the Director of Enterprise Strategy in the Office of the CTO at Veeam, where he drives strategic product and go‑to‑market programs while championing Veeam’s Safe AI vision by keeping data resilient and trusted. Brad has more than 10 years of experience helping organizations recover their data from both disaster and cyber incidents. Before joining Veeam, he worked at EMC, focusing on emerging technologies. Since then, he has held several roles at Veeam — from enterprise systems engineer to manager of systems engineers — giving him a deep understanding of customer challenges across complex IT environments. A frequent industry speaker, Brad has presented at VeeamON, Cybersecurity Summit, AWS re:Invent, Gartner Symposium, and Dell World. His areas of expertise include hybrid cloud resilience, cyber recovery, optimizing cloud spend, and cybersecurity. He’s passionate about helping enterprises strengthen resilience and recover with confidence.