Former Arcserve Chief Brannon Lacey Joins Worksoft As CEO

Lacey, who quietly stepped aside as data protection technology developer Arcserve’s CEO, is now the CEO of Worksoft, a developer of software to automate business process lifecycles.

Brannon Lacey, who served as CEO of data protection technology developer Arcserve until he left the company this month, is now the new CEO of a Texas-based tech company.

Lacey on Friday updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect his move to Worksoft. However, he declined to respond to a CRN request for more information.

Meanwhile, Tony Sumpster, who has served as Worksoft’s CEO since early 2020, updated his LinkedIn profile to show that he has just left the company.

Worksoft did not respond to a CRN request for more information by press time.

Addison, Texas-based Worksoft develops software that automates the full lifecycle of a business process from automated process intelligence to testing to RPA, or robotic process automation. The company’s technology aims to help enterprises speed project timelines and make sure complex end-to-end business applications like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow.

Lacey’s surprise departure from Arcserve came after the company was impacted by two separate incidents since he joined the company in October 2021.

This past February, Arcserve suddenly decided to end sales of its Arcserve Cloud Services and Arcserve OneXafe Solo offerings. That set off a scramble among Arcserve’s MSPs to quickly scramble to provide replacement cloud services for their customers who still used Arcserve’s data protection software and hardware.

The move to end-of-life those technologies was a strategic decision to better align Arcserve’s sales with the company’s support policy and cloud services terms and conditions, and enables Arcserve to invest in innovative solutions to best serve its partners and customers, the company said at the time.

A number of Arcserve customers in March 2022 also experienced a data loss caused by human error in the company’s StorageCraft business, causing them to lose their backup data.

That loss impacted an unknown number of clients of MSPs working with StorageCraft, which in early 2021 merged with Arcserve.