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.

Mr. Scott currently serves as CEO of Devo, Inc. Walt also served as CEO of LiveAction.

Before that he led LogicNow and GFI Software from 2008 to 2016 culminating with the sale of the Logicnow business unit to Solarwinds in July 2016, GFI Software business unit to Versata in July of 2015 and the Teamviewer business unit in July 2014.

Prior to this he served as the CEO of Acronis where in three years he and his team increased revenues from less than $20 million to over $100 million. He was the CEO of Imceda Software, where he executed a combination of leadership and marketing strategies that resulted in a successful sale of the company to Quest Software.

Walter was also instrumental in Embarcadero's successful IPO in 2000.

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.

Ilya Zubarev 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 MIPT.

Jochen Berger is a seasoned IT industry professional, having founded PlusServer AG and served as its CTO for 13 years until it was sold to HostEurope Group. There he headed the M&A Department and acquired 12 hosting companies for the Group. Jochen is now Vice President of Merger & Acquisition EMEA at GoDaddy and sits on multiple corporate boards of directors.

Through his investment company, Jochen is a shareholder in some hosting and SaaS-related companies. He is also a Managing Director of the Acronis Foundation, helping to guide Acronis’ non-profit in its mission to bring education, knowledge, and opportunity to children and underserved communities around the world by building school infrastructure.

Jochen studied media economics at University of Applied Sciences Cologne.

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.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Steve is responsible for the Marketing strategy and the development of critical programs to help Acronis build demand, attract new service providers and advance the brand message through paid, earned and owned media properties.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Steve is responsible for the Marketing strategy and the development of critical programs to help Acronis build demand, attract new service providers and advance the brand message through paid, earned and owned media properties.

Steve has 30 years of experience in tech marketing and partner program development. He spent 13 years in various senior leadership roles at F5 Networks, leading their Channel and Global Marketing teams. Steve is focused on operational excellence, enabling data driven strategies. Previously, Steve held leadership roles at Druva, Visio Corporation (now part of Microsoft), Venture2 and Midisoft. He received his BA from the University of Washington, School of Communications & Advertising.

James Tucker Bradley is General Counsel of Acronis where he manages global legal affairs, including corporate governance, litigation strategy and management, financing and development, intellectual property, compliance and employment matters.  He also manages the global contracts team that negotiates contracts for customers around the world.

Before joining Acronis, Mr. Tucker Bradley spent nearly 20 years as general counsel of software companies in the digital marketing and mobile industrial solutions spaces.  He was also CFO at the industrial software company.  Prior to that, Mr. Tucker Bradley was an associate at Foley, Hoag, where he used his considerable financial skills in four areas:  real estate, banking, bankruptcy, and accounting malpractice defence.  Before that, he was an associate at Wilmer Hale, where he worked in real estate development and finance.  Mr. Tucker Bradley began his professional career working in audit and tax at BDO.

Mr. Tucker Bradley holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Annual Review of Banking Law, and a B.S. in Accountancy with Highest Honors from Bentley University.

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.