Cloud software and hosting industry veteran, Patrick brings over 20 years of experience in technical, management, and leadership roles in which he continuously brought innovation and global growth to brands. Patrick joins Acronis from GoDaddy, where he most recently served as President of the Partner Business. In that role, he led the company’s strategic expansion of its Hosting, Productivity, and Security services through resellers and agency partners. Combining that experience with his product development expertise, Patrick is an expert in developing successful, cloud-based go-to-market strategies, particularly through service providers, resale channels, and strategic alliances. Previously Patrick held executive leadership roles as CEO of Host Europe GmbH and Group CEO of Host Europe Group (HEG), where he served as Group COO – having grown HEG from a small business to one that sold for $1.8 billion. He earned his MBA from The Open University in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

Serg Bell is the founder of Acronis, currently serving as the company’s Chairman and Chief Research Officer. Prior to this role, SB served as Acronis’ Chief Executive Officer from 2013-2021. SB was also Acronis’ first Chairman of the Board from 2003-2007 and again from 2019 to present-day. Before founding Acronis, SB served as Parallels’ CEO until 2011, a company that operates as a global leader in virtualization and automation software. SB still provides leadership to Parallels today as the company’s Executive Chairman. SB is also the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Acumatica, and a Senior Partner at Runa Capital, a global technology-focused venture capital firm he co-founded with university colleagues in 2010. As of July 1, 2021, SB has stepped down as CEO of Acronis so he can better lead the company’s technology and research strategy as Chief Research Officer. SB’s role now includes a larger focus on overseeing and directing the company’s advanced technologies, as well as its university relations program – including the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) in Switzerland, which he co-founded in 2019. SB sits on the Governing Board of the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore. He holds a B.S. in Physics, an M.S. (Hons) in Physics and Electrical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIPT.

Ana Maria Montero (AM) is an international TV, radio and print journalist with 20 years of experience who grew up professionally within the CNN family – from intern to anchor desk – working for CNN International, CNN Español, CNN domestic and HLN, in English and Spanish. During this time, she hosted ‘Escenario’, a Los Angeles-based daily entertainment news show focused on all things arts and entertainment: Hollywood, premieres, celebrity interviews, set visits, film festivals, concerts, etc., including live coverage of the Academy Awards®, Grammys® and other high-profile events around the globe for CNN and TNT. She rounded out her experience as a live news correspondent working out of the Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City Bureaus. In 2017 AM traded red carpets for stock markets and joined the CNNMoney Switzerland team as an anchor for their flagship business and finance show, The Swiss Pulse. She also became host of the long-format interview show, The Newsmaker, as well as Tech Talk, a show about all things tech, with a focus on sustainability, the Swiss start-up scene and women in tech, covering such international events like CES Las Vegas and Viva Tech in Paris.

Dino was elected to the Schaffhausen government council in 2020 and took over the economics department when he took office in January 2021. He is a business economist with a specialization in finance, Zurich University of Economics. 2013-2014: President of the GPK of the Canton of Schaffhausen. 2012-2016: Member of the GPK SH audit committee and from 2021 he became Government Council / Head of the Department of Economics and Justice.

As a Partner at Dorigo AG HR Services, Petra supports clients in the industries of insurance, technology and risk management by recruiting top talent for key positions, particularly in the areas of cyber risk, cyber security, actuarial services and claims management. Petra is a recognized expert in all of these fields with extensive high-level experience and a deep, broad network. Petra is also the chair (and founder) of the Swiss Cyber Think Tank (SCTT), numbering more than 180 members, hosted by a variety of major companies, since SCTT’s founding in 2015. She is a frequent event speaker at the SOA, IFoA, AAE, Risk!N, and InsurTech and have published articles on actuarial and technical topics, including White Papers written with Denny Wan (Chair of the Open Group FAIR Sydney Chapter) of Macquarie University (Australia) on cyber pricing models and Fei Zhang (Head of Blockchain at Allianz Group) on the Future Model of Insurance. She also frequently serves as a panel member for conferences on actuarial and technical topics, in particular, cyber and pandemic risks. Previously, with Metabiota, she served governments and insurers across the world by helping them with the vetting of risk models for epidemic and pandemic risks for L&H and livestock coverages. Prior to that, as Executive Director for the Insurance Industry at Hewlett Packard, developed IT architectures and implemented Telematics and Pay-as-you-drive solutions. As an Associate Partner at IBM, Petra served the insurance industry in Europe and Asia with product design and technical solutions in emerging markets. Earlier, she worked for Accenture for nine years, first as a consultant and then Managing Director, serving the European insurance industry. Her extensive experience in the field of actuarial science includes a stint as Global Director at SunGard, where she led the Actuarial teams in Europe and Asia. At Pro Insurance Services and at FTI, she led actuarial and forensic investigations over a wide range of topics, including money laundering, international capital reserve needs, fraud and suicide claims, compliance issues for insurance industry start-ups, and due diligence reviews. She worked as an actuary in the U.S. for US Fidelity & Guaranty and then Aetna. She is a licensed actuary of the Swiss and German actuarial societies and an affiliate of the British actuarial society, earned a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of Münster and have done post-graduate research at the University of Maryland.

Candid Wüest is Vice President of Research at Acronis. His career in cybersecurity goes back more than twenty years. If you want to understand the biggest threats to hosting, cloud, and the businesses they serve there is simply no one better to get you the information you need.

Svetlana has over 25 years of IT and Telecom experience in Sales, Marketing, Business Development and General Management. She started her career in Telecom industry in 1996 in Comstar Telecommunications in Moscow, Russia. In 1997 Svetlana relocated to Dubai and in 1999 started working in Aptec, a leading IT Distributor in META. Svetlana has built and successfully developed a Mobility Business Unit in Aptec, after which in 2008 she started her career in the IT division in the same company as Marketing Manager Gulf and then Marketing Director META. In 2012 Aptec Holdings was acquired by the global distribution giant Ingram Micro Inc. Svetlana was a member of Ingram Micro Executive team of META region until her appointment as a Managing Director Ingram Micro Switzerland in June 2020. Svetlana relocated to Switzerland with her family in August 2020. Svetlana Sorokina holds an MA in Arabic language and literature from Moscow State University and an MBA from American University in Dubai.

Richard Tubb is one of the best-known experts within the global IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. He launched and sold his own MSP business before creating a leading MSP media and consultancy practice. Richard helps IT business owner’s take back control by freeing up their time and building a business that can run without them. He’s the author of the book “The IT Business Owner’s Survival Guide” and writer of the award-winning blog www.tubblog.co.uk