BIO

As Veeam's Chief Marketing Officer, Peter Ruchatz is responsible for Veeam's global marketing and communication strategies and efforts, including positioning and messaging. He focuses on building and guiding Veeam's global brand and reputation, further extending the presence and relevance to target audiences with scalable and state-of-the-art marketing programs, and helping Veeam's sales teams and partners successfully grow their business to the next level. Peter joined Veeam from Salesforce.com, where he was VP Marketing, EMEA central region. Prior to Salesforce.com, he spent 7 years at Microsoft in various field and product-marketing roles, first as business group lead in Germany, followed by 5 years in Redmond leading business applications marketing for North America, and then as global product-marketing lead over pricing, compete and go-to-market programs. Earlier in his career, he served as Gft.com’s software division head. He also held strategic management-consulting roles at the Boston Consulting Group. Peter holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University and a bachelor's in business administration from Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University.