Informatica announced the appointment of Jim Kruger, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer. Kruger joins Informatica from Veeam Software where he was the Chief Marketing Officer driving innovation across every aspect of Veeam's marketing organization. He brings over 25-years of experience with demonstrated success in driving demand-generation, sales acceleration, product and solution marketing and brand equity for large scale enterprise software companies.

In his most recent role as CMO of Veeam Software, Kruger led Veeam's global marketing organization with the charter to accelerate growth and lead the company's brand momentum as the top provider for backup solutions that deliver modern data protection in hybrid cloud environments. Prior to Veeam, he was CMO at Intermedia, offering Unified Communications as a service to businesses. He spent 17 years at Polycom in a variety of roles from EVP & CMO to leading product marketing and product management for the Voice division to Vice President/General Manager overseeing a $200M business unit.

Prior to Polycom, Jim served in several senior marketing roles with GTE (Verizon) wireless and Palm. Jim has an MBA from California State University, East Bay, and a BA from University of California, Berkeley. As Informatica's EVP & CMO, Jim will lead the global marketing organization with the charter to accelerate cloud growth, expand into new markets and industry verticals and lead the company's brand momentum as the global leader in enterprise cloud data management.