As President and COO, Mr. McKay will report directly to Mr. Largent and will be responsible for sales, sales operations, marketing, finance and human resources. Prior to Veeam, Mr. McKay held a number of senior leadership roles within VMware's Americas organization. He joined VMware as Vice President Sales, End User Computing, Americas, and from this position, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer for the Americas, responsible for optimizing the alignment and integration of all go-to-market functions, then to Senior Vice President, Americas Enterprise, and then ultimately to Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas. Mr. McKay joined VMware through the acquisition of Desktone where he was President and CEO from 2010 to October 2013. Prior to Desktone Mr. McKay was President and CEO of two other successful venture backed companies; Watchfire, a security solutions provider (acquired by IBM in 2007) from 2001 to July 2008 and eCredit (acquired by Internet Capital Group) from 1998 to 2001. Mr. McKay also served as “Executive-in-Residence” at Insight Venture Partners.