March 30, 2020
Press release

Acronis Appoints Neil Morarji General Manager in APAC

The seasoned professional to drive growth by extending relationships with partners

and service providers offering cyber protection solutions to APAC organizations

SINGAPORE, 30 March 2020 - Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced today the appointment of Neil Morarji as General Manager in Asia Pacific region. Morarji, previously the Head of Enterprise division for APAC, will now lead the growing sales team in Asia and Australasia - excluding Japan and Korea where the company has local offices - in delivering the world's most advanced cyber protection technology by developing relationships with local partners and service providers.

Founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis operates from its dual headquarters in Singapore and Switzerland, and leads the market by offering complete cyber protection for all virtual, physical, cloud, and mobile workloads with solutions that are enhanced with integrated, AI-powered anti-ransomware and blockchain-based data notarization technologies.

"Neil joined us at a time of growth, bringing strong leadership and unparalleled expertise in cloud distribution field to the team," said Pasha Ershow, Acronis Revenue Officer. "With our extensive global network of more than 50,000 partners, Acronis has enjoyed tremendous business growth last year - APAC being the fastest growing region. Neil's experience will also be instrumental in developing our service provider network - now 6,500 service providers worldwide and growing rapidly."

One of Morarji's first objectives has been to launch the new Acronis Partner Programs in APAC - under his leadership, Acronis team will help channel partners and managed service providers (MSPs) expand their portfolios and deliver fast ROI through offering innovative products and services that address the Five Vectors of Cyber Protection, ensuring the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security of all data, applications, and systems (SAPAS).

A critical step for the industry given the current global crisis, aiming to ease the workload for company's existing partners around the world, as well as new ones. The Partner Programs combining new partner tiers and numerous incentives, will help sustain Acronis' growth rate this year, following a whopping 30% overall business growth in 2019.

Neil Morarji comes with more than 20 years of experience in the cloud and digital transformation space. Prior to joining Acronis, he managed Ingram Micro's Cloud Platform Business (Odin) in APJ. He was responsible for business growth, professional services and alliance management, driving and maintaining sustained growth across regional cloud partners. And before that, Morarji was a managing director at Parallels and Odin in Australia and New Zealand, where he built trusted partnerships with some of the countries' largest services providers and hosters.

"I'm excited to turn the company's global strategic thinking into a local execution plan and accelerate business growth in Asia," said Morarji. "Now, more than ever, the market needs Acronis' proven cyber protection solutions. We're going to continue helping our partners succeed by providing service and support that's second to none."




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.
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