Veritas Ropes in Brian Higgins to Lead APJ Channel

Veritas Technologies has named former VMware Southeast Asia partners and alliances senior director Brian Higgins as its new channel sales leader for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.

Prior to Veritas, Brian was a general manager at VMware, responsible for the commercial business, partner and hybrid cloud services teams in South Asia and Korea. An industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, Brian has also held senior sales, marketing and channel leadership positions including Citrix, Cognos and BusinessObjects, among others, where he was instrumental in driving business transformation to achieve significant results.
“The channel business has transformed extensively as partners are more focused than ever on providing solutions that empower customers to solve some of their most pressing business challenges,” said Chris Lin, senior vice president, APJ, Veritas.