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Veeam Promotes Mohamad Rizk to Regional Head for Middle East and CIS
September 2022 by Marc Jacob
Veeam® Software announced the appointment of Mohamad Rizk as Regional Director for the Middle East and CIS region. In this new role, which plays to his strengths as a leader with a strong business acumen, Rizk will support Veeam’s continued investment and strong presence in the region and will look to grow the company’s market share and revenues through the planning and execution of sales and channel strategies.
Rizk, with a strong technical sales background and 14 years of experience in the industry has had an illustrious career helping regional enterprises with their digital transformation journeys through the rollout of technologies, primarily relating to virtualization, storage, and data management and protection. He joined Veeam as a Presales Consultant in 2013 based in Saudi Arabia and moved up to his last role of Senior Director, Technical Sales – Middle East, Russia & CIS where he was instrumental in the planning and execution of several large scale projects that helped drive Veeam’s reputation as an industry leader in the Modern Data Protection domain.
Rizk is based in Dubai since 2017 and holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Lebanese American University (LAU) where he also worked as teaching and research assistant and co-authored multiple scientific publications in reputable journals. Prior to Veeam, Rizk was Solution Architect at Nesma Advanced Technology, leading the digital transformation projects for the largest organizations in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, during his professional career, he has covered and worked with multiple regions that includes the US, Africa, Middle East, Russia and CIS.
