Acronis

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President

Sofia, Bulgaria · Hybrid

Driving the growth of Acronis partners' business through technical and business education, sales enablement and strategic marketing.

Chief Success Officer

Sofia, Bulgaria · Hybrid

Owned customer and partner experience. Managed global technical support, education, partner community and market research units.

Chief Strategy Officer

Sofia, Bulgaria · Hybrid

Supported the CEO in developing and executing the company strategy and alignment between all units of the company. Owned responsibility for Acronis’ leadership position on the cyber protection market.

Chief Marketing Officer

Sofia, Bulgaria · Hybrid

Led global marketing organization.

VP & GM, Consumer and Small Business

Sofia, Bulgaria · Hybrid

Led global consumer and small business organization, as well as online and OEM teams at Acronis.

VP & GM, Consumer and Online Business

Sofia, Bulgaria · Hybrid

Responsible for Acronis True Image product line and business, and online sales and marketing at Acronis.

Business Manager / Chief of Staff to CEO

Sofia, Bulgaria · Hybrid

On behalf of Runa Capital, supported the CEO of Acronis. Supervised the rebranding: re-positioning, re-pricing and re-packaging of existing products, launch of the new website, and product marketing update. Facilitated hiring of key leaders and senior managers. Managed globally distributed communications team on interim basis.

Runa Capital

1mo

Venture Partner

Greater Boston Area

Looking for revenue-generating software startups focused on data storage, data protection, disaster recovery, eDiscovery, distributed networking and data management products.

Investment Director

Greater Boston Area

Screened high-tech companies, selected investment opportunities, negotiated deals, ran due diligence and supervised deals closing. Participated in business development of companies: writing sales and marketing plans, recruiting key people, building technology roadmap. Supervised M&A and integration.

Microsoft

1mo

Managing Director of Microsoft Seed Fund / Local Software Ecosystem Lead

Managed Microsoft Seed Fund, established and executed selection process, organized Selection Board committee meetings, supervised the distribution of grants, succeeded at internal fundraising for Microsoft Seed Fund. Has supervised startup-related activities at Microsoft, executed Microsoft BizSpark and BizSpark+ programs, built and implemented a complete startup support initiative plan, ran a number of training and educational courses for high-tech startups, conducted entrepreneurial courses at Skolkovo Open University.

NextWeb Lead / Web Evangelism Lead

Owned the market share of Windows Web Server. The market share significantly increased in 2010-2011 after almost five-years of steep decline before 2009. - Created and maintained overall Windows Web Server marketing plan - Managed a cross-unit and cross-functional team of technological, sales and marketing professionals - Created customer value propositions, battle cards and sales materials - Conducted technical and business trainings for customers, partners and Microsoft sales personnel - Reported results to senior executives of Microsoft Corporation - Launched WebProfessionals.ru project (marketplace of web agencies building solutions on Windows Server) and number of community projects - Organized number of events around web-technologies The increase in adoption of Windows Web platform, which was a result of performed activities, lead to quick adoption of Windows Azure cloud platform as soon as it became available.

Developer Evangelist

Responsible for technical evangelism of Microsoft web technology stack. - Developed technical content (presentations, trainings, articles, whitepapers, videos - some of the may be found at www.TechDays.ru) - Participated in major tech events organization - Built network of influencers in tech community - Worked with partners on resolving issues involving architecture, performance, reliability and security - Supported community around Microsoft .NET platform - Represented Microsoft at various competitive and community events As a result of evangelism activities the market share of Microsoft .NET platform has grown significantly.