Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:25
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Global storage management software vendor, Acronis says it has hired technology industry “luminary” and 20 year IT industry veteran, Steve Mann as its chief marketing officer, charged with leading its worldwide marketing efforts.
Jason Donahue, Acronis President and CEO, said
Mann was the company’s first appointment of a CMO, and he would play an
integral role in driving the company’s future growth at a time when he
claimed Acronis was “poised for a tremendous 2010.”
Donahue said Mann would bring to the company “a valuable combination of deep expertise and innovative thinking.”
According to Donohue, Mann is a “thought leader on emerging
technologies, marketing segmentation strategies, social media, and
marketing strategy,” and most recently, had led SAP AG’s social media
strategy efforts, as well as being responsible for SAP’s total customer
experience initiative, services marketing, market intelligence function
and SAP’s competitive program and strategy team.
Prior to joining SAP, Mann was a principal with the BRM Group, a
Jerusalem and New York-based venture capital firm and was formerly the
vice president of product strategy for CA.
Donahue said that Acronis had registered its best-ever Q3 revenues this
year, “highlighted by a September that set a company record for
revenue,” and that last month the company was named to the Deloitte
Technology Fast 500 list of the fastest growing technology companies in
North America.