Shiva Pillay

Shiva Pillay, Veeam General Manager & Senior Vice President, Americas, is responsible for leading Veeam’s growth and business operations across the region. Shiva has spent more than 15 years in the IT industry, working across various spaces including Data Protection, Security, SaaS, and Automation.

His experience covers several functions, revenue generation, sales, customer retention, professional services, operations, channel, and alliances in both regional and global capacities, having lived in Australia, the US, and Singapore.

Shiva has held senior leadership positions at RSA, EMC, The SCE Group, Prevalent Inc. and SevOne. Most recently, he was the Veeam General Manager & Senior Vice President for APJ, joining Veeam in 2018. During this time, he led inside sales, channels/alliances, pre-sales, cloud service providers with a focus on driving alignment, high growth and optimizing performance and later taking on all responsibility for the region.

His passion for customers and partners is evident in how he approaches business and the way in which he builds and leads teams. Under his leadership, the Veeam APJ team has broadened their share in key markets as it serves to solve modern data management challenges in a rapidly changing ecosystem.

Shiva also currently serves as an advisor for several start-up organizations in the US and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Psychology from the University of Wollongong. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.