Defending OT/ ICS Uptime

James R. Slaby is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis. Previously, Slaby was an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud computing and networking at Forrester Research, HFS Research, Yankee Group and The Info Pro. He has also held solutions, vertical, product and campaign marketing roles at tech security and networking vendors including Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks and Motorola.

Ryan brings over a decade of storage and data management experience to Acronis leading our commercial enterprise sales organization. Acronis’ enterprise sales team is focused on helping organizations improve their business continuity plans and reduce cyber exposure in historically difficult computing areas such as the edge, endpoints, industrial automation, and R&D labs. Ryan began his sales career selling knives door to door and holds a BS in Sales & Business Marketing from Western Michigan University.

Muhammad Khaled is Regional Senior Solutions Engineer at Acronis, he is taking care of the entire Middle East and Levant. Muhammad is closely working with our enterprise sales, partner account managers, success managers to sell Acronis solutions and increase the brand awareness. Muhammad trains and enables Acronis resellers and service providers to ensure they are offering the best product that fits their customer requirements with cost effective solution and proper sizing. He is responsible for increasing Acronis service providers in the region and improving the cloud business growth. Muhammad has 15 years of experience in the datacenter solutions, cyber security and data protection. He was graduated from Faculty of Engineering in the specialization of Electrical Engineering – Communication and Electronics.

Meraj Mohammed is the OT Cybersecurity Business Leader, Middle East and APAC leading operational technology (OT) Cybersecurity business strategy at Schneider Electric in the region; Driving the OT Cybersecurity and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) cybersecurity strategy for Schneider Electric’s Industrial Automation and Energy Management business with a focus on industrial control systems security and critical infrastructure protection. In the industry since past two decades, Meraj Mohammed brings a unique perspective to the security community, based on his diverse Information and Operational Cybersecurity background.