Christian van den Branden CTO, Arcserve

Arcserve, Inc. appointed Christian van den Branden as CTO.

Reporting to CEO Brannon Lacey, he will be responsible for leading the global R&D and advancing technology innovation, as well as driving the strategic direction of the product roadmap.

Lacey said: “Christian is an exciting addition to Arcserve’s leadership team. His in-depth engineering expertise and track record of successfully leading global engineering teams are key to expanding Arcserve’s technology leadership and further growing our unified data resilience solutions product portfolio. Leveraging his strong experience in mission-critical and storage technologies, Christian will be instrumental in ensuring we continue delivering best-in-class solutions to help our partners and customers WW maintain BC.”

With over 20 years of engineering leadership experience, van den Branden has a history of driving strategic planning, running operations, and advancing strategic initiatives across functions and geographically dispersed organizations. He has expertise in storage technologies, DevOps, DevSecOps, SaaS, and cloud-native application development. Most recently, he served as CTP at Qualifacts, a healthcare technology company where he ran the software development organization and the hosting and infrastructure teams. Prior to this, he held leadership roles, including head of engineering at ZeroNorth, XebiaLabs, SimpliVity, DynamicOps, and EMC Corporation.

He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and an MBA from Boston University.