About Acronis

Ravi Jacob is a Corporate Vice President at Intel Corporation and has served as its Treasurer since 2005, managing Intel's cash and investments, capital markets activity, currency and other financial risks, credit and collections, retirement assets, and risk and insurance. Previously, Ravi was Vice President, Finance and Assistant Treasurer, M&A. For seven years he led a worldwide team of approximately 50 treasury professionals responsible for structuring and executing Intel Capital's acquisitions, divestitures and strategic investment transactions. From 1994 to 1998, he worked as Assistant Treasurer, Europe. In prior roles, he managed the company's retirement investments portfolio and overseas cash management activities. Ravi joined Intel in 1984. He holds an MBA from Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

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.

As the Chief Revenue Officer at Acronis, Jan-Jaap Jager brings more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry. Previously, he was CEO of the Intergenia Group, one of the largest hosting companies in Europe. Jan-Jaap has extensive experience in developing and growing emerging markets. In 2006, he joined SWsoft, now known as Parallels, with the task of building a whole new region from scratch that contributed substantially to Parallels’ revenue. Prior to joining Parallels, Jan-Jaap was a pioneer within Microsoft Germany, where he led the development and execution of the Microsoft hosting strategy.

Jan-Jaap holds a BA in International Economics and Management from Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, The Netherlands, as well as an advanced degree from the University of Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany.

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.

Stanislav Protassov co-founded Acronis in 2001 and currently leads its research and development teams.

As Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Engineering and R&D at Parallels, he managed software engineering in a wide range of development environments including Windows, Novell Netware and UNIX. Previously, as Architect and Developer at Solomon Software, Stanislav received personal praise from Bill Gates for Solomon Software’s Cassandra product architecture. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has authored over 100 patent applications, own 40 patents to date, and has won more than 50 awards for software development.

With more than 17 years of Accounting and Finance experience, Shachar Rabbe leads all areas of finance at Acronis. This includes: accounting, corporate controlling, FP&A, order processing, collection and tax.

Before joining Acronis, Shachar lead Finance and Operations for Orbotech's activity in the Americas and Europe and, prior to that, for one of Orbotech's largest divisions. In both positions, Shachar continuously improved operations, impacted business growth and maximized profits through expert finance management, strategic planning, cost reductions, and productivity enhancements that lead to double digit revenue and profit growth.

Shachar holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an MBA from Ben-Gurion University.