Tag: Austin McChord

Datto appoints Tim Weller as CEO

Posted on January 10, 2019 by - Moving People, News

Datto has announced the appointment of Tim Weller as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Weller succeeds Founder Austin McChord who got away from the daily management of the company but continues as a board member.

A Spokesdatto said that Weller will assume the position immediately, providing a seamless transition from his interim role of leading Datto’s Executive Team over the last two months.

Datto sticks to an indirect model

Posted on November 7, 2018 by - Events, News

Andrew Allen of Aabyss

While other vendors hum and haw about whether it’s better to sell their kit to their “partners” while they knife them in the back by circumventing the channel, it seems to ChannelEye that Datto really does stick to its last.

Last, as more literate readers of this online paper will know, is an archaic word for a shoemaker’s model for repairing a boot or a shoe. And if the shoe fits

Datto founder quits

Posted on October 30, 2018 by - News

Austin McChord

The CEO and founder of Datto said today that he is going to quit these posts but will still remain on the board of directors.

Austin McChord said that he founded Datto 11 years ago when he was stuck in a basement, but has now grown the company into a behemoth with 1,400 employees with 14,000 managed service providers.

“I’m proud of the company we have built”, he said.

The company is now actively hunting down a replacement CEO but in the meantime chief operating officer Tim Weller will run the company.