About Acronis

René Bonvanie joined the Acronis Board of Directors in February 2014, bringing over more than 30 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.

René was Chief Marketing Officer of Palo Alto Networks for more than a decade and currently holds the position of Executive Vice President of Strategic Accounts. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Collibra, Nexthink, and Guardsquare.

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

Charles Ryan joined the Acronis Board of Directors in June 2018, brining over 25 years of entrepreneurial and financial management expertise developing successful financial corporations. Charles has a proven capacity to understand global political and economic context and develop businesses with ultimate transparency.

Charles’ experience helps Acronis to capitalize on its Singaporean origin and Swiss-owned IP, reinforcing its position as the most reliable cyber protection vendor on the global market.

Charles is the Chairman and CEO of United Financial Group (UFG) Asset Management and a senior advisor to Deutsche Bank AG. Before founding UFG in 1994, Ryan held financial positions with CS First Boston and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Charles has a degree in Government from Harvard College.

Prior to joining the Board of Directors at Acronis, Jim Herman was its Chief Revenue Officer, since 2015. Jim also led and built sales, business development, field marketing and services organizations for successful IT industry innovators. In his four-plus years as Senior Vice President at Parallels, Jim drove sales and consistently over-delivered on its worldwide revenue plan. Additional responsibilities at Parallels included building and managing the Professional Services and Business Development teams.

Previous to Parallels, he spent eleven years at Symantec/VERITAS, where he served in a number of leadership roles in enterprise sales and partner/channel development. Jim also made significant leadership contributions at technology pioneers NCR and Informix Software. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Evergreen State College.

Holger is part of GS Growth, Goldman Sachs's dedicated growth equity team. In that capacity, Holger invests in growing private companies in the technology sector. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2010, Holger worked at Allen & Company. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Princeton University.

Eugene R. Sullivan is a retired Federal Judge with more than 16 years of appellate experience who serves as an advisor to Acronis' Board of Directors regarding ethical and judicial matters.

Nominated by President Reagan, Judge Sullivan was installed as a Federal Judge in 1986, became the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals (AF) in 1990, and earned Senior Status in 2002.

A graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, Judge Sullivan served in the Army where he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Air Medal and other decorations for his service in Vietnam. He has been inducted into the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame.

After the Army, Judge Sullivan graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. He clerked for Chief Judge M.C. Matthes of the U.S. Court of Appeals, worked for the Patton Boggs law firm, and was part of the White House's legal defense team during the Watergate investigation.

He served in the U.S. Department of Justice for eight years before joining the Pentagon, where he became the Air Force General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer of the U.S. Air Force.

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As Acronis Chief of Staff, Aliona is a "right hand person" to CEO. She supports CEO in his activities across all areas of Acronis business over 20+ countries. She is focused on Operations and Programs Management, optimisation of productivity & efficiency, and oversees Acronis strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution.

Aliona joined Acronis early 2019. Prior to Acronis Aliona spent 11 years at Microsoft, where she served as a Chief of Staff for Global Services at Microsoft HQ with focus on Operations, Programs and Communications management for 3500 people global services organization across 50+ countries. Previously Aliona held a few leadership roles on a position of Services Director (leading organization of 100+ employees with P&L responsibility of services business), a Director for Microsoft Business Solution and others.

Before Microsoft Aliona served as a Vice President for Global Marketing at IT-consulting company Columbus IT (HQ in Denmark).

Aliona holds a Master's Degree in Economics and lives in Singapore

As Acronis Chief Cyber Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Gaidar assists the CEO with developing and executing company strategy. Gaidar and his team are responsible for Acronis' leadership position on the cyber protection market.

He joined Acronis in 2013 as a Business Manager to CEO, becoming Vice President and General Manager for consumer and online business in 2016, Vice President for consumer, and Chief Marketing Officer 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.

Before Runa Capital, Gaidar served in a variety of roles at Microsoft, ranging from a technology evangelist to a managing director of the Microsoft Seed Fund. Gaidar holds a Master's Degree in Chemistry.

Mr. Havens brings over 25 years of experience in building software companies having spent the last 12+ years specifically in the cloud space.

Prior to Acronis Dan helped build and sell numerous software companies including recently running the cloud business for Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he carried a billion-dollar quota. (HPE Cloud/Software sold to MicroFocus International 2016.)

Mr. Havens began his career as a Product Manager and Public Speaker for the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group and holds a BS in Engineering with Minors in Math, Physics, and Speech.

As Chief Technology Officer, Oleg is responsible for leading Acronis' scientific and technological vision, including strategy development, innovation policies and alignment between teams.

Before coming to Acronis, Oleg co-founded Parallels (aka Odin, SWsoft), where he spent more than 20 years leading cross-cultural teams in designing, architecting, building and supporting Odin Automation, a complete Cloud Service Provider platform. After IngramMicro acquired Odin, Oleg served as Chief Development Officer, where he led a team of more than 300 product and program managers, developers, developers-in-test, and technical writers.

Since 2010, he's also served as CTO for Runa Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups. In this role, Oleg ensures a thorough due-diligence of companies being considered for investment, and mentors companies in the portfolio regarding product management, software engineering, and product delivery.

In his role as Chief Knowledge Officer, JT is responsible for advising the CEO and the board on advanced technology. By ensuring Acronis is current on new technology topics and opportunities, he plays a key role in establishing the vision and initial requirements for new products, strategies, and customer experience.

A visionary and result-oriented IT executive, JT brings a strong technology and science background to Acronis. He's developed applications for Unix and Windows, designed and built enterprise-level networks, and led numerous software product teams. He has been responsible for troubleshooting and fixing performance and scalability problems in high-load environments. JT also has more than 20 patents filed.

In addition to his technical experience, JT has a proven track record for developing businesses, having created strategic visions for startups and pre-IPO companies. He's co-founded several high-tech companies, including Parallels and Acronis, and his technical expertise has been critical when evaluating ideas, products, and companies targeted for acquisition.