SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland. January 25, Milan/Madrid - Effective as of today Denis Valter Cassinerio will fill the role as Regional Sales Director for Southern Europe. Cassinerio and his team will focus on expanding the partnership ecosystem as well as on other major milestones in Acronis´commitment to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world.
Denis Valter Cassinerio joins the team with more than 30 years of sales and cyber security industry experience serving in senior management leadership roles at companies such as BT Security, Trend Micro, and McAfee and most recently as Director of Sales Southern Europe at Bitdefender
"As the new Regional Sales Director for Southern Europe at Acronis, he will build on the past success and push the Acronis team in Southern Europe to even greater achievements in what is a key market for us to develop. "Denis' track record of driving impressive growth from the brands he developed excites us for what is to come under his leadership and expertise," said, Ronan McCurtin, VP Sales Europe, Israel, and Turkey.
2021 was a successful year for Acronis, in Europe, the cloud business was growing 70% year-over-year and Acronis Cyber Protect delivered protection to many thousands of businesses who faced unprecedented challenges and threats during the pandemic. Cassinerio will build on the success from 2021, including the $250 million investment from CVC Partners in May of last year to further enhance Acronis' go-to-market initiatives by expanding its broad partner network of managed service providers (MSPs) to keep the momentum going in 2022.
Acronis has a unique positioning within the cyber security and data protection market, and the Acronis Cyber Protect platform is a perfect fit for the current and future needs of our southern european customers and service providers.
"The team will focus on developing new channel and market segments: from small businesses to the enterprise market, counting even on further local investments, strengthening the cloud-first approach of the company on top of the relevant research and development capabilities of ACRONIS. We will make sure to leverage our main go to market, including actual and new MSPs and MSSPs, making Acronis the best choice for superior partnership and Cybersecurity", said Denis Valter Cassinerio, the new Regional Sales Director Southern Europe at Acronis.
About Acronis:
Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 15 offices worldwide and employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.