Balaji Rao to head sales at Veritas India

18th August 2015
Balaji Rao to head sales at Veritas India

New Delhi,  August 18, 2015:  Having decided to  spin out  Veritas  which it merged with itself  a few years ago,  Symantec Corp has named  Balaji Rao as the India Sales Leader   for the separate entity
Rao is an industry veteran with close to 20 years’ experience working in blue chip technology companies and has held several leadership positions. He has a deep understanding of the Indian market with diverse experience across the domains of virtualization, cloud, security, enterprise management software and storage. Rao has also achieved an excellent track record of setting up successful sales teams and delivering significant business growth. Prior to his appointment as the India Sales Leader for Veritas, he was the Senior Director - Sales, India & SAARC at VMware and was responsible for managing the business across key verticals with a geographically spread sales team. He has also worked with other leading technology companies including Hewlett Packard, EMC and IBM. 
“India is a high growth market and I am pleased to have Balaji Rao lead the India sales team to help us drive greater traction with our customers and partners. Balaji has a proven track record of building strong teams to deliver results and I am confident that he will help propel Veritas’ growth and expand our footprint in India,” said Chris Lin, APJ Sales Leader for Veritas.
Adds Balaji who holds a Bachelor’s degree in B.E (Electrical) from the Mangalore University: “This is an exciting time to join Veritas as there is tremendous potential for the company to contribute to India’s digital transformation into a knowledge economy. I am looking forward to this opportunity to lead the Veritas sales team to deliver innovative solutions to our customers in tandem with our partner network to drive profitable growth and establish our leadership position as the leading information management company."