Veritas Technologies, a worldwide leader in enterprise data protection and software-defined storage market, has appointed John Abel has as senior vice president and chief information officer, reporting to Veritas CEO Greg Hughes.

Abel is an accomplished technology executive with more than 25 years of experience enabling growth and driving business value at global organizations, utilizing market-leading cloud technologies. He replaces Todd Hauschildt, who is retiring from the company.

“John’s experience in the industry coupled with his strength for business partnership and building high performing teams makes him an ideal choice to drive our information technology strategy,” said Hughes.

Abel joins Veritas from Ellie Mae, the cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, where he also served as senior vice president and chief information officer. Prior to Ellie Mae, Abel spent eight years at Hitachi Data Systems as senior vice president of Information Technology, where he consolidated multiple enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) and led a transformational customer relationship management (CRM) strategy enabling significant growth in the company.

Abel holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, from Staffordshire University in the UK and attended the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth’s Executive Development Program. – TradeArabia News Service