Avi Raichel to Become Chief Operating Officer with Deepak Verma Promoted to VP, Product Management

BOSTON, MA – June 2, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Zerto, an industry leader in cloud data management and protection, has announced the promotions of Avi Raichel to the role of Chief Operating Officer and Deepak Verma as VP, Product Management. The two senior leadership positions are key to the continued success of the business and product strategy roadmap.

Avi Raichel
Photo: Avi Raichel

Avi Raichel has been promoted to the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO), having served as Zerto’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the past four years. The selection of Raichel for this role marks the first time Zerto has appointed a COO. As COO, he will now also be responsible for transforming Zerto’s strategy into execution by working with teams across the company to build collaborative cross-functional plans, processes, and tools that can scale and grow as needed. He will continue to serve as CIO, leading the IT, operations, sales operations, and cloud teams.

Deepak Verma
Photo: Deepak Verma

Also announced, Deepak Verma has been promoted to VP, Product Management, taking leadership of the entire product management team. Having joined Zerto nearly two years ago from Commvault, he has made a major impact in his previous role as Director of Product Strategy. Verma was responsible for leading Zerto’s successful data protection and development strategies, while also bringing to market Zerto for Kubernetes and leading multiple key other projects and assisting in managing the team.

“Avi and Deepak have become instrumental to the Zerto success story, and they are valued colleagues and highly respected industry professionals,” said Ziv Kedem, CEO of Zerto. “I am delighted to recognize their achievements, and it says a huge amount about their qualities that we can make these crucial appointments from within the team. This sends an important message to the wider Zerto team and all the stakeholders supporting our efforts that we have the talent to succeed.”

“I am delighted to be assuming the role of COO at a time when the business is raising the bar for the way organizations approach cloud data management and protection,” said Raichel. “Working alongside the senior leadership team over the past four years has enabled me to build a deep understanding of our customers, partners, and the opportunities for further growth, and I look forward to building on our success story.”

“Leading the Zerto product management strategy is a challenging and rewarding role. I’m excited about the innovative milestones we’ll be achieving in the months and years to come,” commented Verma. “Everyone on the team is committed to our shared success and ensuring customers are in the best possible position to meet the challenges of a digitally transformed world—we are ideally placed to go on that journey with them.”

About Zerto
Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation through a single, scalable platform for cloud data management and protection. Built for enterprise scale, Zerto’s simple, software-only platform uses continuous data protection to converge disaster recovery, backup, and data mobility and eliminate the risks and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. Zerto enables an always-on customer experience by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of applications and data across private, public, and hybrid clouds. Zerto is trusted by over 9,000 customers globally and is powering offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and more than 450 managed service providers.

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