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Anand Eswaran is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Veeam. Anand’s strategic vision, inclusive leadership and execution focus has created a track record of building and leading high growth successful global businesses. Prior to joining Veeam, Anand led RingCentral to accelerating growth and innovation, as their President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to RingCentral, Anand was responsible for Microsoft’s Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector business globally. Earlier in his tenure at Microsoft, he led Microsoft Services, Industry & Digital, Customer Care, and Customer Success — a global team of 24,000 professionals. Prior to joining Microsoft, Anand was the Executive Vice President of the $5.4B Global Services business at SAP, leading 17,000 business process and technology professionals to accelerate customer and partner value creation through SAP’s enterprise applications. He has held multiple other leadership roles including Vice President of Global Software Services at HP, Vice President of Global Professional Services at Vignette (now OpenText), and Senior Manager at Braun Consulting (now Fair Isaac). Anand is a founding member of the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) and served on the executive advisory board for 12 years. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from University of Missouri-Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from University of Mumbai, India. He is married and has two children.

As Chief Product Officer, Anton Gostev leads Veeam’s Research and Development (R&D) and Product Management teams. With 15 years of experience at Veeam, Anton is directly responsible for everything engineering-related at Veeam. He brings trademark dedication and commitment to this role – leading our teams to deliver genuine value for customers while ensuring the future of Veeam and its products are tightly woven into the fabric of our company’s mission and purpose. Anton has always believed that Product Management should go beyond responsibility for the product itself and touch the entire customer journey. His active position in all matters related to the customer experience has made him a key stakeholder for R&D, Customer Support, Pricing, Packaging and Product Marketing decisions – leading him to become a valuable member of the Veeam Executive Team. Based in Switzerland, Anton started his career as a Support Engineer at Aelita Software and then became the leader of Veeam’s Product Management organization. As a result of his thought leadership and active participation in various IT Professional industry communities, he is a well-respected face of Veeam R&D for customers and partners.

As Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Product Strategy, Danny is responsible for Veeam’s global product roadmap and strategy group, and for spearheading the company’s technology vision as the #1 provider for Backup solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. He partners with global enterprise customers and large Service Providers to assess and ensure long-term industry success. With more than 20 years of software technology experience, he is passionate about solving customer problems and software innovation. Previously, Danny was CTO of Desktone, a software platform for cloud service providers offering hosted desktops which was acquired by VMware. Earlier in his career, Danny was Director of Security Research at IBM and a member of the Security Architecture Board where he co-authored the IBM Secure Engineering Framework. He holds multiple software patents in the cloud and security field.

Misha Rangel is the Director of Portfolio Marketing and Operations and leads the Ransomware GTM initiative at Veeam. Misha has spent over 20 years in B2B tech marketing at companies such as IBM and several growth-stage startups and is a founding member of the Product Marketing Alliance. Misha has a BBA in MIS and Communications from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. Misha lives in Austin, Texas with her family.

Rick Vanover (Microsoft MVP) is Senior Director of Product Strategy for Veeam Software. Rick’s experience includes system administration and IT management; with virtualization, cloud and storage technologies being the central theme of his career recently. Follow Rick on Twitter @RickVanover or @Veeam.

Emilee Tellez is a Technologist for Product Strategy at Veeam Software. She has 10 years of IT experience with over eight years working directly for Veeam®. Based in Mesa, AZ, she supported both commercial and public sector customers in the desert region, spanning from New Mexico to Hawaii. She helps customers work on their data protection and disaster recovery strategies for the ever-changing modern data center. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, and holds certifications in AWS, VMware and Veeam.

Ken is a Director of Systems Engineering at Veeam Software and oversees a team responsible for evangelizing and driving adoption of Veeam's award winning solutions to Veeam channel partners across North America. His passions include pre-sales engineering, driving channel partner growth, and developing technical enablement programs to drive better business outcomes. Outside of work, Ken enjoys his much of his leisure time outdoors either coaching or cheering on his kids’ sports teams, enjoying a quiet fishing hole, or riding motorcycles on the rural backroads.

Branden is Senior Systems Engineer at CMG Financial who has been designing, architecting, and administering systems and environments for nearly 20 years.

Kirsten Stoner is a Technologist on the Product Strategy team at Veeam Software. With over seven years of industry experience, Kirsten has a specialized focus in data protection, virtualization and monitoring and analytics. Through her years interacting with the technical community, Kirsten continues to provide compelling technical content to engage audiences globally. Kirsten holds the Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) credential with a growing interest in cloud and security technologies.

As Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Veeam, Gil Vega establishes and executes Veeam’s vision and strategy to ensure its information assets and solutions are adequately protected, while driving strategies to help customers protect their critical data across multiple environments and ensure regulatory compliance.