About Acronis

Ilya Zubarev has served Acronis as its Chairman of the Board of Directors since June 2007. He is a founder of Rolsen, Infra Telesystems, SWsoft, Solomon Software SEA and Acumatica -- all in partnership with Serguei Beloussov. Ilya received a B.S. in Physics in 1993 and an M.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering in 1995 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Rene Bonvanie joined the Acronis Board of Directors in February 2014, bringing over 25 years of product marketing, business development, and general management experience from roles at INGRES, Oracle, VERITAS, Business Objects, SAP, Salesforce.com, Serena Software, and Palo Alto Networks.

Rene currently holds the CMO position at Palo Alto Networks, and also sits on the Board of Directors of Mirantis, Mintigo, and Servoy.

Rene speaks four languages and has an Economics degree from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

John Zanni is responsible for growing business and market share through overseeing Acronis marketing, business development, external relationships, strategic partnerships and product management activities.

Prior to becoming Acronis President, John held the position of Chief Marketing Officer and SVP Channel and Cloud Strategy, managing Acronis’ brand messaging, worldwide marketing activities, external communications and channels.

In his cloud strategy management role, John designed and implemented a strategy that integrated cloud-based activities into Acronis core business. John managed the launch of the Acronis Cloud Program for Partners, and was responsible for its successful execution.

John previously served as CMO, Service Providers, at Parallels, overseeing the company’s global service provider marketing function. Prior to joining Parallels, John was the General Manager of the Microsoft Service Provider SPLA business. In this role, he drove strategy for Microsoft’s hosting and cloud business and responsible for the SPLA P&L.

Prior to Microsoft, he spent 12 years running a small business. John holds a BS degree in Mathematical Physics from California State University, Northridge.

Igor Zolotaryev is the Global Vice President of Human Resources at Acronis, where he is responsible for supporting business strategies and objectives and managing the Human Resources organization across the globe.

Prior to Acronis, Igor spent 10 years as an HR leader at Honeywell Corporation, starting as Regional HR Leader for Russia and the CIS, and later taking on the position of the HR Director for Integrated Supply Chain for Home and Building Technologies in EMEA and Southeast Asia, covering more than 5,000 employees in manufacturing facilities and distribution centers. He holds a law degree from the University of Nizhny Novgorod and a degree in translation from Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University.

Gaidar Magdanurov leads global marketing and communications across all segments and channels. This includes brand, corporate, product and field marketing, demand generation activities, and analyst and media relations.

Gaidar joined Acronis in 2013 as a Business Manager to CEO, becoming Vice President and General Manager for consumer and online business in 2016, and consumer and small business in 2017.

Previously an investment director at venture capital fund Runa Capital, Gaidar was responsible for seed-stage investments, advising and educating entrepreneurs, supporting the business development of portfolio companies and maintaining relationships with startup incubators and accelerators.

Prior to Runa Capital, Gaidar served as Managing Director of the Microsoft Seed Fund and as Local Software Economy Initiative Lead at Microsoft in Russia. He holds a Master’s Degree in Chemistry from the Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences.