Veeam today announced the appointment of Santiago Campuzano as the new Country Manager of Iberia. In his new role, Campuzano will support Veeam’s strong presence in Iberia and accelerate growth in the region with a specific focus on large accounts. Campuzano will report directly to Patrick Rohrbasser, Regional Vice President for Southern Europe and Africa.
Campuzano joins Veeam from Citrix, where he was regional director for over a decade, most recently leading EMEA partnerships with hyperscalers including Microsoft, Google Cloud Platform and AWS. With more than ten years of experience helping organizations, both public and private, to evolve the digital workplace and leading the change of companies towards new competitive environments based on digital transformation, he has extensive experience derived from his work in digitally driven companies.
“We see Santiago as a fantastic and much-needed asset to our team, not least because of his proven leadership experience in digital transformation and the IT industry channel. His sales and marketing approach, with a holistic view of the business and special expertise in enterprise IT will help drive our growth and consolidate our leadership position within iberia, addressing the needs of Modern Data Protection for cloud workloads, virtual, physical, enterprise and Kubernetes,” said Patrick Rohrbasser, Regional Vice President for Southern Europe and Africa.
“I am delighted to be joining Veeam at a crucial time for many Iberian companies as they continue to embrace digital disruption and cloud transformation projects. My role will be to help them adopt or accelerate the necessary Modern Data Protection strategies to help ensure maximum availability, protection and security of their data. By ensuring the integrity and recoverability of their data, companies have greater control over essential information to make better business decisions, meet customer needs, and meet digital transformation and business continuity initiatives,” he said. Santiago Campuzano.
He added: “I am looking forward to offering Veeam the benefit of my experience in the Spanish and Portuguese markets to bring strategic value to companies throughout the region.” Veeam’s recent 2022 Data Protection Trends Report showed that 83% of organizations plan to increase their data protection budgets this year, approximately 6% more than last year. I have the opportunity to help our customers and partners make the best investments in Modern Data Protection for their business needs. In addition, I want to support each of our ProPartners in their growth and thus foster even stronger and closer relationships with our clients.”
Santiago Campuzano has a degree in Financial Management, Business Administration and Marketing and a Master’s in Financial Management, both from ESIC, where he has also been a professor for 17 years and has been part of the executive. In addition to his experience at Citrix, Compuzano’s professional career includes work at companies in the technology sector such as Sage, where he held the position of Channel Sales Manager, being able to establish a new sales channel structure for the brand; as well as a new channel policy between partners, retailers and distributors, fulfilling objectives and leading a business development team.
