--- title: Changes in the leadership of Acronis description: Acronis Business President and Chief Corporate Development Officer, Ezequiel Steiner, has been appointed the Acting CEO of Acronis. canonical_url: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/changes-in-the-leadership-of-acronis/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) # Changes in the leadership of Acronis Acronis Business President and Chief Corporate Development Officer, Ezequiel Steiner, has been appointed the Acting CEO of Acronis. [Try Now](https://www.acronis.com/en/products/cloud/trial/) [![Image 2: Acronis Editorial Team](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/d85707ae91461544212d39836dc32b42.png)](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/ "Acronis Editorial Team") [Acronis Editorial Team](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/) 2 min read Last updated 04 October 2023 Other languages available:[日本語](https://www.acronis.com/ja/blog/posts/changes-in-the-leadership-of-acronis/) Over the last few years, Acronis achieved tremendous success under the leadership of Patrick Pulvermüller and with the invaluable support of our partners and customers. We delivered a complete portfolio of products for service providers, enabling them to provide the best-in-class cyber protection to their customers and increase their efficiency and profitability by saving time on day-to-day tasks with the Acronis platform. Moreover, we enjoyed incredible business growth in our service provider business, becoming the fastest growing and one of the leading vendors in the industry with over 20,000 partners. Having achieved the important milestones for Acronis, Patrick Pulvermüller will focus on his personal ventures. Our Business President and Chief Corporate Development Officer, Ezequiel Steiner, has been appointed the Acting CEO of Acronis. Ezequiel has almost 20 years of history with Acronis, supporting the company in different roles at different stages of its development. He helped to set up and establish Acronis 20 years ago. He was back to drive corporate development and recently led all business functions at Acronis, including sales, marketing, business development and customer success. In between his time with Acronis, Ezequiel led two extremely successful software companies – Acumatica and Parallels. Under Ezequiel’s leadership, Acronis will continue to provide the most reliable and efficient cyber protection and tools for service providers and corporate IT customers. [Corporate cybersecurity](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/tags/corporate-cybersecurity/) ## Written by ![Image 3: Acronis Editorial Team](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/d85707ae91461544212d39836dc32b42.png) Acronis Editorial Team 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. 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