Olaf Duennweller moves from Veritas to join Commvault as Area-Vice President EMEA

Commvault, a global vendor in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and cloud, announced appointment of Olaf Duennweller as Area-Vice President, EMEA Central. Duennweller comes to Commvault after nearly 17 years at Veritas, growing through the ranks from Pre-Sales Manager to Country Manager for the entire business in Germany.

“His previous role alone makes him one of the most industry-experienced candidates possible, but his appreciation of the opportunity for Commvault to expand and a desire to build on the success we have already achieved in the region was just as important,” said Christian Lang Vice-President, Commvault EMEA. “His strategic partnership and local market experience, along with our shared commitment to people excellence, will accelerate Commvault’s expansion across DACH and the wider EMEA region.”

In this new position Duennweller takes leadership of Commvault’s business across the Germany, Austria, Switzerland markets, with responsibility to strengthen regional alliance and partner networks, and increase Commvault revenue and market share through new pan-regional customer implementations and partnerships.

With a focus on delivering simplified, market-leading backup and recovery data protection solutions, specifically supporting pressing GDPR, ransomware, hybrid cloud and scale-out customer requirements, Duenweller plans to increase penetration across public sector, enterprise and mid-market sectors.

“Organisations in this region are looking to modernise and simplify their legacy architectures, and they want a trusted and experienced partner to provide expertise and guidance to help them speed time to value,” said Olaf Duennweller, Area-Vice President EMEA Central.

“Our innovation, like Commvault HyperScale, sets us apart, helping companies address their critical data protection needs, across the industry’s widest range of storage arrays, hypervisors, applications and cloud solutions. These Commvault advantages along with a strategically aligned partner ecosystem and industry leading expertise and world-class support, will make this region a critical contributor to our global growth and success.”