New top dog at Acronis

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 30 November 2011 08:42

IT People - People

Acronis has appointed Alex Pinchev as its president and chief executive officer.

"We are proud to have an industry leader of Alex's calibre join us at this time in the company's development," said chairman Ilya Zubarev. "Since Alex joined our board in 2010, we have benefited from his extensive experience, sharp business acumen and vision for the future development of the virtual and cloud markets. We believe that Alex's strong leadership will accelerate Acronis' journey to be a global leader in backup and recovery solutions not only for physical servers, but for virtual environments, and into the cloud."

Mr Pinchev joins Acronis from Red Hat where he was most recently president of global sales, services and field marketing. He previously held executive positions at MRO Software and Maincontrol, and is on the boards of Qualsys and LogiXML.

He holds a BSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, and an MSc in Computer Science.