Veritas Appoints John Abel as Chief Information Officer

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Veritas Technologies, a worldwide leader in enterprise data protection and software-defined storage market, announced that John Abel has joined the company 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 Greg Hughes, chief executive officer, Veritas.

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.

Before joining Hitachi Data Systems, Abel held an IT leadership role at Symantec shortly after it had acquired Veritas. Earlier in his career, Abel spent time with JDSU and with KPMG Consulting, serving global clients in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. 

He holds a bachelor's degree in Information Systems, from Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom and attended the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth's Executive Development Program.

About Veritas
Veritas Technologies is the global leader in the enterprise data protection and software-defined storage market. We help the most important enterprises in the world, including 86 percent of the global Fortune 500, backup and recover their data, keep it secure and available, guard against failure and achieve regulatory compliance. As enterprises modernize their IT infrastructure, Veritas delivers the technology that helps them reduce risks and capitalize on their data. Learn more at www.veritas.com or follow us on Twitter at @veritastechllc.

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