Phil Brace moves from Seagate to Veritas to drive software defined storage

Veritas Technologies, a global vendor in enterprise data protection and software-defined storage, announced the appointment of Phil Brace as Executive Vice President. Brace will lead Veritas’ Appliances and Software-defined Storage business. Brace is an accomplished technology leader with more than 25 years of experience in engineering, product, and general management roles. He comes to Veritas from Seagate Technologies, where he served most recently as President of the Cloud Systems and Silicon Group responsible for the Storage Systems Business and solid-state drive product divisions.

Phil also spent nine years at LSI Corporation in various leadership positions, including leading LSI’s Storage Solutions Group as Executive Vice President. Brace started his technology journey at Intel, where he spent twelve years, ultimately as General Manager of Server Product Marketing.