Hans van Rietschote Director - Adv. Tech. Group. VERITAS Software

Hans has more than 25 years of management experience in Advanced Technology, Account Management, International Business Development, software engineering research, market management, technical support, international sales, services management, customer training, and embedded software product development, at companies such as Lucent, AT&T, Philips, Origin, TNO research and VERITAS Software.

Hans expertise areas are in Storage, Telecommunication, IT infrastructure and embedded software solutions. He has an extensive track record in creating "bridges" between different companies, different (country) cultures and between (software) technology and business.

At Origin he successfully established an embedded software services activity in Santa Clara California, and setup an Independent System Integrator (ISI) relationship with Philips TriMedia. Prior to that he was responsible for international business development of embedded software services. He also established the first ever AT&T 5ESS account in the newly created country of Ukraine.

Hans has both an MS in mathematics and an MBA in telecommunication. He spent more than 10 years working at AT&T Bell Labs in the Netherlands and has successfully out-sourced a group of (embedded) Software Process consultants from Philips Research to Origin. Hans has written and published many articles on Telecommunication, Computers and Audiology and has over 15 software patents in his name.

Today he is a director in the Advanced Technology Group of VERITAS Software in Mountain View California. In this role he scouts out 3rd party technologies, this work has led to the acquisition of both Jareva and Ejasent by VERITAS.