As the General Manager of Acronis Latin America and the Caribbean, Agustin brings nearly two decades of experience in sales, marketing, and strategy in the tech industry. Agustin is responsible for developing and executing strategic plans to achieve sales targets and expand the customer base at Acronis, while building and maintaining strong, long-lasting customer relationships. Prior to joining Acronis, Agustin was a strategic leader at Microsoft, driving end-to-end SMB and public sector business marketing strategies and defining the rhythm of business and sales processes at Microsoft for over nine years. Agustin holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Alan Conboy is a visionary and thought leader in Hyperconvergence and Edge computing. He is an industry veteran and a technology evangelist that specializes in designing, prototyping, and implementing disruptive computing and storage technologies for the edge, SMB, and midmarket spaces. He was the first mover in the X86/X64 Hyperconvergence space. Known as an alliance builder and ecosystem maker, he was one of the first 30 people ever certified by SNIA.

Alex Ruslyakov is head of the  Global Channel organization at Acronis, serving in the position of Channel Chief since late 2020. Alex drives world-wide partner programs and partner account management functions with a focus on the increase of Acronis partner ecosystem and fueling Acronis partners’ growth. Prior to that, Alex was leading the Global Sales Engineering organization at Acronis in the position of VP Global Sales Engineering.

Through his past 15 years at Acronis at different times, Alex held positions of Director of Global Professional Services, Director of Development – leading Cloud Solutions R&D Team, Head of Product Management for corporate products, and Technical Account Manager for strategic accounts. Alex started his career in 2003 as Sun Solaris Systems Engineer after getting his Master’s degree in computer science and software programming. He also graduated from Harvard Business School in Sales and Distribution Channel Teams Management.

Alex Zinin is the Chief Cloud Infrastructure Officer at Acronis, bringing more than 25 years of first-hand technology and business experience in big data, mobile digital advertising, SaaS architectures, cloud technologies, and telecom.

Alex served in executive roles at Palo Alto Networks, Cinarra, Cisco, and Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia. He was also a technology and product strategy advisor to companies such as Juniper Networks, Deutsche Telekom, Softbank, Here Technologies, and a number of startups. Alex was also an Alcatel-Lucent fellow, a distinction awarded to a very select group of engineers.

As the Chief Cloud Infrastructure Officer at Acronis, Alex is responsible for end-to-end planning, design, and operations of the Acronis Cloud infrastructure, including Data Centers, Acronis’ global CyberNetwork, and distributed Points-of-Presence. He also oversees the relationship and management of hardware and software vendors, facilities, telecom, Internet service providers, as well as design and implementation of Acronis-optimized hardware and software solutions.

Alex received his Master of Science Degree in Computer Science with honors from Kazan State Technical University, as well as executive business education at INSEAD and Venture Capital Executive program at UC Berkeley.

As SVP Business Operations / Chief of Staff Aliona is responsible for the CEO’s operations and Rhythm of Business; oversees internal communications, Acronis culture, corporate initiatives, and special cross-company projects.

She also brings a passion for diversity and women in leadership, launching a new Women in Tech program this year that will help elevate women’s careers within the Acronis community through mentorship opportunities.

Aliona brings two decades of leadership and operations management. Before joining Acronis in early 2019, Aliona spent 11 years at Microsoft, serving as a Chief of Staff for Global Services at Microsoft HQ as well as leading several divisions on her own (Microsoft Services, Microsoft Business Solutions etc). Before Microsoft Aliona served as a Vice President for Global Marketing at IT-consulting company Columbus IT (HQ in Denmark).
Aliona holds a Master’s Degree in Economics and lives in Singapore.

As Corporate Vice President of Global Communications, Amanda provides leadership, planning, and execution for Pax8’s strategic communications. She is responsible for corporate internal and external communications, media and public relations strategies, analyst relations, and crisis communications. She leads the planning and successful execution of programs and initiatives that support, promote, and protect Pax8’s business objectives, brand, and reputation. Amanda is responsible for developing and leading the execution of a communications and public relations strategy that supports Pax8’s mission, vision, and values.

With over 18 years of experience, Amanda has worked with Fortune 500 companies, SMBs, and U.S. Congress to provide overall strategy and communications planning. She has won numerous awards, including Women of the Channel, CRN UK A-List, CRN UK Diversity Award, Ragan Communications Team of the Year, and is a Steve Award winner. Amanda holds a B.S.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Southern Mississippi and a master’s degree in Public Relations and Communications from Georgetown University. She is also a community advocate, serving on the Advisory Board of Voices for Innovation and Community Leader for The Women In Tech (WIT) Network—Denver. She founded TechStart Denver, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and empowering future technology leaders.

Amos is passionate in latest technology trends. He comes from a solid technical IT infrastructure background. He has over 14 years of experience in the IT industry. Holding multiple certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, and Red Hat. His interests and specializations include Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange Server, Hyper-V and VMware virtualization, Office 365 and G Suite, Cisco Routing and Switching, Network Security, and Linux Server.

Among some of the companies that he had been with previously are Microsoft, IBM, T-Systems, Atos, HCL, NCS, and Visa. He held positions ranging from Solutions Architect, Presales and Techncial Consultant, Systems and Network Engineer, IT Manager, and Technical Trainer. Amos likes sharing his knowledge and experiences with others. His current and last 2 job roles were Training related.

Amy has operated a best-in-class MSP for over 20 years and two other related IT businesses providing support to other IT professionals in tech and mergers and acquisitions.
She is a highly respected technology business and M&A expert, influencer, thought leader, speaker, author and teacher. Amy runs peer groups and consult IT business owners through growth and service issues. She is known for her passion for the industry and independent thought.
Her industry recognition includes 16-time Microsoft MVP, MSP 501 recipient, 100 Most Visible Channel Leaders, SMB 150 awardee and many more.

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As the Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Acronis, Ashley brings 15 years of experience in the talent space and oversees the firm’s talent acquisition strategy and operations across 30+ countries to drive efficiency and scale for growth. She is also responsible for refining employer branding and key diversity, equity and inclusion efforts focused on supporting and advancing women in technology, a topic she is extremely passionate about.

Prior to Acronis, Ashley was most recently with The Boston Consulting Group where she oversaw hiring top-tier talent across North America, developed and launched a nation-wide program for women in consulting, and shaped global transformation initiatives focused on employer branding and digital talent pools.

Ashley holds a BS in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from Babson College. Outside of work, Ashley serves on the board of Fill-A-Need Foundation helping children and families with Autism and volunteers as a Big Sister and Mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

Mr. Grayek has more than 40 years of experience in Information Security, has been a vCISO, CTO, a Vice President of the 7th Largest Software Company, and has held executive positions in several Fortune 100 and 500 companies. He has been the featured speaker in many world-wide Security events such as RSA, the White House, Secret Service, ISSA, Infragard, and has given presentations in England, Germany, Italy, Australia, China, South Korea, and France, to name a few. Mr. Grayek has been a part of security incident investigations teams that have involved the FBI, the Secret Service, and several State Attorney General’s offices.

Mr. Grayek builds and leads company’s security efforts and teams. His efforts have focused on Applications Security, Threat Management, Vulnerability Management, and Security Operations Centers for some of the largest enterprises on the globe, including Cognizant, CGI, Computer Associates, Verizon, Apollo Group, and Motorola.

Mr. Grayek possesses strong capabilities in managing Security Architecture and Engineering, Security Operations, Cyber Security Incident Response (SIRT/CIRT), SIEM, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Risk Assessments, Governance (SOC2, PCI, CMMC, HIPAA/HITRUST), Vulnerability Management, NAC, DLP, DRP, BCP, MDM, web traffic monitoring, security investigations, forensics, and physical security.

Recently for a Top 5 Security Consulting company, Mr. Grayek created a Security Operations Center from the ground up including recruiting and building the team, initiating operations, policy, and procedure development, and established all functions to handle over 250 clients’ security.

Mr. Grayek now is a Virtual CISO (vCISO) for several companies, does Risk Assessments, and assists companies in becoming more secure and for those that want to gain security regulation compliance.

Cameron May, Founder and Chief Strategist of Silvereye Technologies, has spent 10 years on Acronis’s Partner Advisory board as a strategic public sector partner, and now a strategic cloud distributor for enterprise managed service providers.

As a villain of the software channel industry, Cameron prefers to craft creative partnerships and shake up the classic roles and activities held by an industry that needs accountability.

Candid Wüest is the VP of Cyber Protection Research at Acronis, the Swiss-Singaporean cyber protection company, where he researches on new threat trends and comprehensive protection methods.

Previously he worked for more than sixteen years as the tech lead for Symantec’s global security response team. Wüest has published a book, various whitepapers and has been featured as a security expert in top-tier media outlets. He is a frequent speaker at security-related conferences including RSAC and AREA41. Wüest is an advisor for the Swiss federal government on cyber risks.
He learned coding and the English language on a Commodore 64. He holds a master of computer science from the ETH Zurich and various certifications and patents.

Chris started Sondela Consulting to focus on his passion for working with MSPs to help them become more successful and more efficient by understanding and utilizing their tools more effectively. Sondela is a Zulu word for “Advance” which is a nod to Chris’s Southern African roots and is an apt name with his number one goal being to help MSPs gain a deeper understanding of their investment and realize profitability much quicker.

The 14 years of experience Chris gained through previously running an MSP business combined with working at Autotask has given him greater insight and understanding into both sides of the industry and how a PSA tool can provide efficiencies and profitability when implemented properly. Chris can take you from zero to hero with your PSA tool, using it to its full potential, and maximizing every aspect of your business to ensure that every department is working in harmony. In a nutshell, Chris’s passion is to turn your MSP into a “well-oiled” machine.
Chris co-hosts the PSAImpact podcast, a PSA independent series designed to help MSPs worldwide to get the most from their PSA tool and manage their business.

Chris is a highly skilled technology professional bringing 25 years of IT experience to HUB Tech. He leads a successful Managed Services and Security program which has grown to be one of the top programs in the country. HUB’s Managed Services and Security program is focused on keeping our customers Connected, Managed, and Secured. Prior to HUB Chris has spent most of his career in the enterprise space working mostly in the financial vertical where he held various roles from solution architect to technology risk manager.

Claire is Singapore’s only female race car driver, a former TEDx speaker, mother of two, and has 15 years of media experience in the Lifestyle and Motorsports industry. Having sold her previous business The Karting Arena, she is currently the co- owner of The Film Dispensary, a marketing company working in robotics and the blockchain tech.

Colin has been involved in the IT world in one way or another since 1993.
Moving to Calgary in 1998, following the Internet boom and new Internet connectivity made possible by Shaw, Colin found his way into the IT sector in Calgary and made short work of moving up into the corporate IT world.
Having done stints as a head-hunted contract IT support staffer, Colin got experience working for companies such as Exxon/Mobil and the City of Calgary.
Colin went on his own in 2006 and after meeting Leigha in 2011, they merged their consultancies into a singular company, Plenum Group.

As leader of Strategic People Initiatives at Acronis, Dan focuses on making the entire employee experience a positive and rewarding one. In his 25-year career, he has held global HR leadership roles in networking, data and cybersecurity organizations such as Juniper Networks, EMC/RSA, Enterasys Networks and EqualLogic. A versatile and dynamic leader across all aspects of HR, Dan has built and scaled global teams with a clear vision that he describes as “Think strategically, build globally and nurture locally.” He delivers a wide range of programs, tools and services that spark rapid growth, boost organizational health and deliver strong business results — while creating a working experience that employees love.

MSP luminary, Daniel Lora, will be recording industry podcasts LIVE from the Acronis Cyber Studio in the Luster Gallery.

As a Porting Specialist, I am the bridge that transports you from your previous provider to OITVOIP. I acquire our clients’ information and port their numbers onto our system. To ensure that my task is completed efficiently and in a timely manner, I make sure to work closely with our carriers.

Dave is the CSO of Quick Intelligence, a boutique VAR cybersecurity consulting and Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) specializing in playing the “trusted advisor” role for over 100 clients, from SMB to enterprise. He is a recognized expert in the cybersecurity field, has been singled out by IT Business as one of the 8 Toronto cybersecurity experts you should know, and speaks regularly at local and global conferences.

Dave is one of the founders of TASK, the Toronto Area Security Klatch, as well as Sector, Canada’s largest and most successful cybersecurity conference, where Dave is one of the Advisors. Dave acts as the moderator annually for The Cloud Security Alliance’s Cloud Security Summit.

Dave is the host of the Business of Tech podcast, and owner of MSP Radio.    Dave is regarded as a leading expert in the delivery of technology services, with broad experience in both technology and business.    He owned and operated an IT Solution Provider and MSP for over a decade, both acquiring other organizations and eventually being acquired.  This firm was a winner of multiple awards, including being a finalist for Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner of the Year in the Small Business Specialist category.    After his MSP experience, he has worked for multiple vendors at such companies as Level Platforms, GFI, LogicNow, and SolarWinds, leading community, event, marketing, and product strategies, as well as several M&A activities.

“The Business of Tech” is a leading IT services focused news and analysis podcast and YouTube show, with thousands of listeners and subscribers.   He also co-hosts of the podcast “Killing IT”, and authored the book Virtualization: Defined.  He was a CRN Channel Chief, on the CRN UK A-List, a Channel Futures Circle of Excellence winner, one of Channel Pro’s 20/20 Visionaries, and has a MSPmentor 250 member for multiple times.   Dave has been recognized as one of the top virtualization experts globally as a Microsoft MVP for Virtualization.  Dave has served on the executive council for Managed Services and Emerging Technologies, the Vendor Advisory Council, as founding Chair for the Mobility Community for CompTIA.

Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He is a dynamic voice within the IT community, a former member and facilitator for Heartland Technology Groups and passionate about collaborating with clients and peers on utilizing technology to advance organizations.    He lives just outside Washington DC with his wife and two cats.   His interests include travel and food, cheering the Washington Nationals and Capitals, smoking barbeque, enjoying craft beers, and collecting and playing retro and modern video games among others.

David serves as Chief Technology Officer at Pro Cloud SaaS, a Global Technology Service Provider, with focus on Cyber Security, AI enabled products and cloud migration.
David has a passion for technical leadership, advising level C contacts, forging expansion opportunities in emerging markets as well as providing the best customer experience supporting virtually hundreds of technology solutions.
He leverages his over 25 years of technical solution building in managed, custom and migration services into the latest SaaS platforms, maximizing workspace solution applications, protecting, and reducing risk with Cybersecurity platforms.
He also directs our team of experts whether supporting clients with a virtual CISO solution, ISO 270001 as well as Six Sigma Black belt consulting capabilities.
He and his team focus on making technology a strategic advantage for customers by delivering best in class and innovative solution platforms for day-to-day operations while also understanding and protecting customer company assets.

Dioly Alexandre is the Chief Executive Officer of BlackShield Cyber Inc, an Arizona based Critical Infrastructure Cyber Warfare & Compliance Management company serving the Small to Medium Enterprise space of the 16 critical industries defined by DHS. Alexandre is a well-known for being one of the few people in the cyber security space with a background stemming from Black hat hacking.
As a business leader, Alexandre has insights into solving complex security issues effectively within business operations. As a hacker first, He has an intimate understanding of how that mindset is shifting in the current security landscape.
Building a company in such high stakes environments has given Alexandre insights into working with Critical Industries, all of which must follow complex Cyber Security laws and compliances. Alexandre is of the few who can bridge the gap between the complex nature of cyber security, and the practical nature of business as seen from the eyes of management, operational and technical alike. Ensuring SME companies can effectively secure themselves against issues stemming from cyber-attacks.

Diogo is an Acronis Solution Engineering Manager for Latin America with 25 years’ experience in IT and cybersecurity. A born entrepreneur, he owned one of Brazil’s top MSPs and helped guide Acronis’ successful growth in the country. Using his deep knowledge of the Latin American MSP and technology markets, Diogo leads his team to serve as the bridge to connect technical knowledge with effective marketing, helping partners to thrive with Acronis.

Earvin “Magic” Johnson is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Magic Johnson Enterprises, an investment conglomerate that provides high-quality products and services that focus primarily on ethnically diverse and underserved urban communities. Having left the basketball court for the boardroom, Johnson parlayed the skills and tenacity he acquired on the court into a winning formula for his successful business ventures.

For the last two decades Johnson has consistently turned heads with his unprecedented partnerships. In his early years as an entrepreneur, he forged an alliance with Sony Pictures to develop Magic Johnson Theatres. In 1998, he teamed with Starbucks to become the only franchisee in the history of the company, acquiring and eventually selling 125 stores in a lucrative move which further solidified his position in the business world. Both ventures served as catalysts for redevelopment in urban communities, and are widely recognized as the corporate blueprint for engagement and success with urban consumers across America.

Still a commanding presence in the sports world, he made history in 2012 when he became co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a Major League Baseball franchise that was purchased for an astronomical $2 billion dollars. It was the highest purchase price for any professional sports team at the time. He also co-owns the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Club, and eSports franchise Team Liquid.
Johnson continues to expand his influence through a number of other investments. He currently has controlling interests in EquiTrust, a $20 billion financial services company, and SodexoMAGIC, a food service and facilities management company.

The Lansing native is constantly evolving and remaining relevant in a dynamic digital age by broadening his scope into infrastructure and technology. In 2015, Magic Johnson Enterprises and Loop Capital formed an alliance to create MJE-Loop Capital Partners. The firm raised a fund committed to investing millions of dollars on infrastructure improvement in the United States.
Operating under the philosophy that true success is making others successful, he is one of the leading investors in a number of minority-owned tech companies that include Uncharted Power, an award-winning power and data infrastructure technology company; Jopwell, a diversity and hiring recruiting platform; and ShotTracker, a company that makes wearable technology for basketball players that helps track player and ball movement. In 2021, Johnson was appointed to the board of directors for Fanatics, a sports licensing company, and Cameo, a company that lets celebrities sell personalized messages to fans. With his unique positioning as a businessman spanning multiple industries and generations, he aims to help companies expand and foster a positive impact domestically and globally.

Emily Sampson, Business Development, leads the Acronis Strategic Service Providers Initiative in Europe. Passionate about people and creating trusted partnerships, Emily has pioneered several global programs over the past 15 years with SaaS & IaaS players such as LeaseWeb, SoftLayer & Microsoft. Emily holds a dual degree: BA Honors & Diplom-Betriebswirtin in European Business Studies from the Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Germany & the Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

Erick Simpson built and sold one of the very first MSPs in the industry and co-founded MSP University, where he grew and coached a channel of 30,000 IT Solution Providers through their MSP transformation.

He is the creator of the MSP Mastered® Methodology for business performance improvement that has been licensed by numerous IT channel distributors and vendors. Erick is a technology business & channel growth expert, influencer, thought leader, speaker and author with 4 best-selling books and 50 white papers to his credit, and he co-hosts the ChannelPro 5 Minute Roundup Podcast.

He builds channel improvement programs for IT distributors and vendors and his consultations help IT organizations overcome business challenges to realize rapid, profitable growth.

Erick’s industry recognition includes Channel Futures’ 7 Thought Leaders Defining the MSP Market, Jay McBain’s 100 Most Visible Channel Leaders, 2 Time ChannelPro 20/20 Visionaries, 2 Time MSP Mentor 250 and SMB Nation’s SMB 150 award recipient.

https://www.ericksimpson.com/

More than 30 years’ experience in the field of business information technology following emerging technologies and staying current with all business relevant technology. Started off supporting and mastering desktop, server, network, while more recently focusing on security, virtualization, and cloud.

For more than 10 years now, filling the role of partner and CTO at BIZITSS, a Miami based Managed Services Provider. Current concentration is on a more wholistic approach to supporting business with technology. This requires utilizing the most effective technology solutions to improve business.

Also share my experiences and mastery by teaching with one of the country’s leading providers of technology training to business and Government. Currently AWS Authorized Instructor, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and Google Cloud Authorized Trainer.

Esteban Rey is a passionate Computer Engineer who graduated from ITAM, with more than 20 years in IT, operations and cloud product design. He is a born leader focused on promoting global entrepreneurship and improving the environments in
which technology experts operate.
He is currently Co-founder & CTO of Octapus, the first one-stop cloud compliant and cybersecurity platform in LATAM. As part of the main leaders of Octapus, his passion and experience are focused on helping companies take solid steps in their digital transformation and empower their businesses. Mainly facilitating global solutions adapted to local data governance, always competitive, safe and intuitive for cloud and cybersecurity.

“Companies face large providers that propose to implement projects with a very robust infrastructure, high costs and payment in dollars, when in reality many of them only seek to start migrating to the Cloud little by little. The above exceeds their needs or leaves idle infrastructure that directly impacts their IT budget. Octapus seeks to be the tailored solution, offering disruptive technology at the service of any company, regardless of the size of its project”. Esteban Rey, Cloud Evangelist.
The step that allowed him to continue moving towards Octapus was his position as co-founder of OnCloud, a Mexican company that provides Cloud-based services and solutions, with more than 8 years in the market. OnCloud was integrated into Octapus in April 2022 as the compliant cloud arm of the glocal (global-local) platform that is Octapus, whose mission is to offer differentiated and accessible cloud, cybersecurity and data management solutions to medium-sized companies and SMEs. Latin American companies to facilitate their digital transformation in compliance with the local data protection regulatory framework.

None of the above would have been possible without the experience he has acquired throughout his professional life, in strategic positions such as being Managing Partner at DESICI (Development in Corporate Internet Systems), IT Director at Prochemex and Systems Manager at the Latin American University.

Ezequiel Steiner is the President of Business Operations and a member of the Board of Directors at Acronis. Ezequiel joined Acronis in 2013 to run the Access Business Unit and remained at the company until 2016. During those years, he also managed business and corporate development, the OEM business, finance and legal, as well as other back-office functions. He also joined the Acronis Board of Directors.

In 2016, Ezequiel stepped down from his daily responsibilities at Acronis to run Parallels Holdings. As CEO of Parallels, he managed the divestitures of the Odin, Plesk and Parallels businesses, as well as the revitalization of the Virtuozzo business. While at Parallels, Ezequiel remained as an Advisor and a Board Member at Acronis. He returned to Acronis in 2019 to his current role, President of Business Operations.

Before joining Acronis in 2013, Ezequiel served as CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board at Acumatica. He remained Chairman of the Board at Acumatica until 2019 when the company was acquired by private equity firm EQT. From 2004 to 2009, he served as Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development of Parallels. Previously, Ezequiel spent several years in sales management and business development positions at IBM, as a management consultant at General Electric and as a software developer with Xerox. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Marketing professional with +20 years of experience in the IT industry in Latam. Marketing and strategy Executive education professor and facilitator, and conference speaker.

Former Business Strategy consultant, Marketing Director at Intel Corporation Latam Southern Cone and CMO Marketing Director and Microsoft Corporation Colombia CMO.

Gili Moller is Director of Product Management at Acronis, responsible for the security products portfolio – Advanced Security, Advanced Securiry and EDR, Advanced Email Security and Advanced DLP.

Before he joined Acronis, he has been at Nyotron for 6+ years, leading all the activities at Nyotron R&D Center in Israel.

He holds an Executive MBA from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc Cum Laude in Information Technologies Engineering from Ben Gurion University.

With over 20 years’ experience in the service provider vertical, Gregory Howard is a proven cloud and cyber security veteran. He has worked in senior positions at VeriSign, Web.com, Parallels, and Acronis helping partners safely maximize their opportunity in the cloud. As an expert in sales and business development Gregory takes great pride in working closely with his partners to ensure the right GTM plan and execution to deliver high quality managed security services to their end customers.

With 10+ years of experience as a sales engineer with Acronis, John currently works with some of the company’s largest enterprise customers, helping them develop, deploy, and maintain software to ensure system uptime and business continuity. John’s expertise also includes working with smaller to medium businesses so he understands the complexity of needs that can range from various customer deployments.

As a Senior Sales Engineer, James is extremely capable of making real world sense of underlying technologies that drive backup and disaster recovery solutions in order to bring discussions to positive technical closure.

Having been with Acronis 6 years now, James helps align the appropriate data protection & cyber security software to meet the needs of our partners’ environments. James focuses on analyzing environments and identifying needs to help recommend the proper solution.

He is also responsible for working with potential and current partners to demonstrate Acronis software. You will often find James hosting product knowledge and technical training seminars and during non-Covid times, on the road assisting in educating people about Acronis software solutions. He is Security+ certified and based in Arkansas.

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.

Jay McBain is one of the most visible and respected thought leaders in the global channel. Named 2021 Channel Influencer of the Year by Channel Partners Magazine, Top 40 Under Forty by the Business Review, as well as numerous channel magazines top influencer lists, he is often sought out for industry guidance and future trends. He has spent his 28-year career in various executive channel sales, marketing, and strategy roles within IBM, Lenovo, Autotask, ChannelEyes, and Forrester. Jay is chief analyst at Canalys – the world’s leading research firm with a distinct focus on channels, partnerships, alliances, and ecosystems.

Jeff has been knee-deep in tech for his entire career. He has covered all the angles – from hardware, software, and hosting, to SaaS and the cloud while working in large enterprises, small startups, and the in-betweens. He specializes in messaging, human behavior, economics, and “solving the human puzzle” of marketing and communications.

Jennifer Pierce is a Security Advisor & Partner Success Manager enabling MSPs to protect their businesses & grow like never before. With a background in sales, marketing, and consulting for the past 15 years, Jennifer has enjoyed helping businesses innovate new processes to do more with the same resources, while creating relational experiences to create brand loyalty.
A longtime advocate for Businesses, she has served as an Ambassador for the Katy Chamber of Commerce for a decade & is currently the president of the Katy Business Association where she has forged alliances with other community groups. Her passion for helping business owners has led to her newest challenge at Galactic Advisors- helping in their mission to protect 1 Million people!

Jeremy Warren is the CEO of Monarx, a cybersecurity company specializing in protecting websites from attack. Monarx’s proprietary technology detects & prevents malicious activity proactively, automatically, and safely. Monarx saves time & money for hosting providers around the world, and enables them to drive extra revenue by reselling active protection to their customers.
Prior to joining Monarx, Jeremy was the Chief Technology Officer at Vivint Smart Home, the largest home automation company in North America. In this position, Jeremy was responsible for all of Vivint’s product-related software development and analytics capabilities, as well as its technology roadmap, partnerships, and strategy. He joined Vivint upon its 2012 acquisition of 2GIG Technologies, where he was also the CTO.
Prior to 2GIG, Jeremy was the Chief Technology Officer of the U. S. Department of Justice, where his responsibilities included formulating the Department’s technology strategy, providing technology expertise in program oversight, performing research, and coordinating all aspects of the Department’s technical architecture. Jeremy was also the Chief Architect of Lavastorm Technologies, where he focused on rules-based processing systems, data mining, and statistical analysis.
Jeremy studied computer science engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joe Morgan has spent more than 20 years building, delivering and managing hosting and cloud services for businesses across the U.S. and Europe. As the founder and CEO of Joe’s Datacenter in Kansas City, he evolved the business from offering traditional web hosting and colocation services, to become a successful cloud partner for small businesses and other service providers. Now as Cloud Program Director for Virtuozzo, Joe continues to play a leading role in enabling MSPs and CSPs to offer more flexible, cost-effective and profitable clouds of their own.

John Dusett serves as Executive Director for Ingram Micro’s Cloud Services, leading the company’s US Cloud division. In this role, Dusett is responsible for all go-to-market functions that enable the transformation of Ingram’s traditional B2B IT business to a high-growth cloud services business.  He leads a team of technology experts, marketing gurus and sales professionals focused on helping MSP’s and IT Resellers transform their business to capture growth in cloud services.

Dusett is a 25-year veteran of the B2B Technology industry where he has led teams in sales, marketing, service delivery and product development.  His past roles include global leadership of an analytics & BI agency serving the B2B technology industry and running regional managed services businesses.  Prior to assuming the current role leading the US Cloud division, he was Director of the Microsoft Business Unit for Ingram Micro.  He also serves on the Board of Directors for Catholic Health Services of Buffalo.  John Dusett joined Ingram Micro in 2016.

Dusett resides in Buffalo, New York with his family where he enjoys coaching youth sports, being active outdoors in all seasons and spending time with his wife and two daughters.  He is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business.

Jon is a veteran in the cloud service provider space, having worked for Parallels and Open-xchange prior to joining Acronis. Jon’s mission is to create an active community of service providers around the Acronis product line.

Expect to visit with Jon at your favorite trade show or find him on your favorite social media platform.

Joe is an author, speaker, and insurance broker. He is a graduate of New Mexico Military Institute and the United States Naval Academy where he obtained a degree in Systems Engineering (Robotics). As an IT he specialized in database management and network security. In 2019 he completed his Masters of Law in Cybersecurity Law at the Carey School of Law.  Joe uses his technical background to specialize in solving complex insurance problems for businesses across the country.

He is the co-author of three bestselling books on insurance: True Course: The Definitive Guide for CPA Practice Insurance, Open Before Crisis: Cyber Insurance for CPA Firms, and Damage Control: Cyber Insurance and Compliance. In early 2021, his chapter on Risk Management and Transference Issues in Blockchain Technologies was published in The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business. In addition, he has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles found in nationwide magazines. His next book on Tech E&O insurance is slated to be published in late 2022.

Juergen has more than 20 years of experience in the international IT industry. He founded his first own company in 2015 in Austria. In 2019 he founded his other company ARES Cyber Intelligence (www.ares-ci.com) and has focused his competences on fighting cybercrime.

His expertise in profiling, negotiation and cyber crisis management has prevented huge damages in more than 100 incidents in the last two years and helped the affected companies in recovery and protection.

In 2021, he and his team were able to recover 34 affected companies at the same time from ransomware. This was his reason to invest in research of quantum cryptography and high performance computing in the future and to develop a centralized incident response platform.

Karl W. Palachuk has been an IT Consultant since 1995 and is one of the pioneers of the managed services business model. He is the author of more than twenty books, most of which are also available as audio books.
Karl founded the Small Biz Thoughts Technology Community in 2018. He maintains four blogs, including Small Biz Thoughts and Relax Focus Succeed, and produces three podcasts, including the SMB Community Podcast and The Killing IT Podcast. And in 2021, Karl founded the National Society of IT Service Providers – NSITSP.org – where he is now the Executive Director.
Karl has owned several small businesses, including two very successful Managed Service companies in Sacramento, CA. He received his first Microsoft certification in 1995 and his first MCSE in 1999. He was an active, hands-on Systems Engineer until January of 2017.
He now provides coaching and consulting services to IT professionals of all sizes.

Kate Bissinger is the Marketing Director for Net3 Technology, a national cloud service provider and CSP Platinum Partner of Acronis.

She began working in the cloud sector 8 years ago and has built the Net3 marketing program from the ground up. That program works closely with sales and technical resources to provide meaningful and practical marketing throughout the customer lifecycle.

A true B2B marketer, Kate enjoys finding new and creative ways to connect with prospective customers and clients through social media initiatives, strategic email campaigns, and interactive events to engage with IT professionals.

Katya Ivanova leads Sales at Acronis. Katya has been with the company since 2011 and held different positions in Sales and Technical Support.  Katya holds vast international experience, her teams are supporting strong partner ecosystem that reaches customers in more than 150 countries worldwide. Katya is responsible for execution of sales strategy and the development of critical programs to help Acronis attract new service providers and support growth of existing partner network.

Kelvin Tegelaar is the founder and tech blogger at CyberDrain.com, a tech blog oriented at MSPs and IT-pros. His scripts, presentations, and knowledge are used in almost all current RMM products and have earned him 3 Microsoft MVP awards.
When he’s not blogging he’s a partner and CTO at Lime Networks B.V. where he handles the strategic and technical operations, Kelvin enjoys helping other MSPs achieve success by making scripting more accessible and easier to understand, in the hopes that all will embrace automation. Kelvin is also the founder of https://cipp.app. A multitenant M365 management application is used by over 1200 MSPs today.

Ken Varrone began his career at Network Solutions and Technology in 2010, where he served as both Partner and Chief Technology Officer. In 2022, Ken joined Sourcepass following their acquisition of NST. He now serves Sourcepass as Chief Product Officer and active board member. Ken is responsible for defining and driving the Sourcepass technology investments that shape our full portfolio of service capabilities. He has 15+ years of experience evaluating IT trends and advising the Client Strategy Team on what technologies will create market differentiation and most relevant to invest and deploy. Ken’s most exciting endeavor to date, is the development of industry innovative software that will revolutionize the MSP space.

Kristin leads our #CyberFit Technology Partner Program. She works with partners across our technology ecosystem to bring to market compelling new solutions that both extend the capabilities of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud and integrate Acronis cyber protection solutions with popular tools used by the service provider and IT community.

Kristin benefits from security-related domain knowledge gained through previous roles with firms Navisite, Intralinks and Sophos.

Connect with Kristin is you are a developer looking to build a custom solution, an ISV who wants to share their integration with our growing technology ecosystem, or are a service provider interested in exploring Acronis’ integrated solutions.

Lawrence Troemel has over 30 years experience selling IT products and services. He is the top individual salesperson for 8 years in a row at one of the largest 3rd party maintenance providers for IBM mid-range and mainframe computers. He founded several MSP companies and sold those companies to Large Channel Partners. He is the founder of the 1st company in the Midwest to offer Microsoft Certified Training classes for MSP and MCSE certifications. Lawrence managed the Top Producing Sales Teams at 3 different Channel Partners that each had annual revenues exceeding 2B in sales. Lawrence is a published author of “Timeless Strategies for the Successful Entrepreneur.” He is currently the President and CEO of NobleTec. NobleTec is 3 years old and has annual sales of 20M, with heavy emphasis on Cloud Licensing and Security Services and Helpdesk and Managed Services. NobleTec is a Tier 5 Acronis partner and Acronis delivery partner to The Chicago Bears.

Leonardo Gonzaga has more than 23 years of experience in the business area in information technology companies such as HP, UOL Diveo, Ascenty and Dell.

He is currently the CEO of Webplus, a Brazilian company that has distinguished itself as a provider of cyber security solutions and was the first company to receive recognition as Acronis Platinum Service Provider in Brazil.

Graduated in information technology, with specializations in innovation from UC Berkeley and entrepreneurship from Babson College, today his main role is to support the growth and development of new MSPs in the process of adopting Acronis solutions for the Brazilian market.

Lorena Panama is Global Partner Marketing Manager at Acronis. With over 15 years’ marketing experience with top telcos and software companies, she helps drive B2B marketing initiatives, partner marketing strategies and co-marketing campaigns. She specializes in nurturing partner relationships, developing thru-partner marketing content and driving custom communication strategies. With degrees in both marketing and engineering, she confidently delivers the right tools, resources and insights to help partners achieve their goals.

Honorable Judge Louis Freeh advises senior leaders of global companies and governments on complex investigative, governance, compliance, and regulatory matters.

Since leaving government service, Louis Freeh has been appointed by courts, corporate boards and governments to help the world’s largest companies navigate legal and compliance issues related to the FCPA and similar anti-corruption regulations. Louis Freeh firsthand experience with U.S. judicial, law enforcement and regulatory agencies, national governments, and leaders of global businesses allows him to assist organizations in navigating crisis situations and complex, multi-jurisdictional matters quickly and strategically. His expertise and leadership qualities advise and support Boards, governments and CEO’s on a range of sensitive undertakings including investigations and enhanced due diligence, litigation strategy, compliance monitoring and assessments, and liaison with regulatory authorities.

Louis Freeh was founder and chairman of Freeh Sporkin and Sullivan, and Freeh Group International Solutions from 2007 -2020. Prior to that, he was FBI director and a former federal judge.

Passionate about Linux and IT for more than 20 years, I soon began working as a computer technician and offering support to companies. I learned to listen to my customers and understand what their needs were. Now after several years of professional growth, I’m in charge of Data Center management and all aspects of Cyber Security for our clients.

Marcela Vasquez brings 7+ years of experience in coordinating and planning solutions that increase content consumption and delivers marketing enablement. With a particular focus on channel marketing in the cybersecurity industry, Marcela is a talented visual communicator, marketer, and strategist.

Mark Hammer has significant technical consulting expertise with 19 years’ experience. He was co-founder of an internationally recognized consulting firm which received dozens of rewards for leadership, quality of work, and sales performance in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software space.

He is a seasoned public speaker and has extensive experience managing and delivering training seminars and conferences for technical software applications, business processes, and sales leadership for business owners and fellow practitioners. He is also fluent in Spanish.

He has a wide array of technical expertise up and down the traditional IT stack. Highly skilled at communicating with all levels of constituents to provide real-world solutions to problems that impact business viability and efficiencies. He has successfully managed software implementation projects with international cross-functional teams for Fortune 100 companies. Mark Hammer currently works as a Bilingual Technology Evangelist at Acronis.

Mark’s 20+ years’ of experience has primarily been focused on building and scaling sales teams in the SAAS, IAAS, Cloud Recovery and Data Center space. Throughout his tenure he has amassed a leadership style grounded by discipline & process with emphasis on inspection of metrics and measurement of KPIs. This data driven approach has proven invaluable in driving evolution and optimizing market growth.

Mark Wiener is a professional agent of change. His current role is president of BizCom Global, a Managed Cloud Service Provider that serves professional services and manufacturing clients with a cloud-first approach to business productivity, security, and efficiency. With his 30 years of experience working with companies from the halls of the fortune 500, down to the local mom-and-pop businesses, Mark helps companies improve their operational performance with planned and proper implementation of technology, which includes appropriate security controls.

Mark brings unique perspectives around emergency incident management to the technical services industry, with experience gained from days managing incident command for more than two dozen mass causality incidents in New York City. This experience has allowed for his customers to be prepared and for systems to be tested and when all fails a streamlined recovery.

Markus holds a degree in Information Electronics and has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry with extensive expertise in Business Development, Marketing, Sales, as well as Presales and distribution of products and services. He held various Sales and Channel positions in which he, amongst other things, imparted technological expertise to Partners. Moreover, he was responsible for the expansion of the Channel Business and provided a reputable and knowledgeable reference point for Suppliers as well as Partners.

Markus’ mission at Acronis is to drive strategies and share technological expertise with Partners, Customers and Resellers. He works on all Channel levels and is responsible for Acronis trainings and workshops throughout EMEA.

As a 20-year MSP veteran, Martijn specializes in making business processes smarter, easier, and less expensive. He founded Computication, one of the first ‘pure play’ MSP businesses in the Netherlands, growing it into a multi-million-euro MSP with 80% recurring revenue before a successful exit. Computication was a two-time winner of the Deloitte Fast 50 for showing 766% and 933% sustainable growth over five years. He also founded and ran the Computicate PSA business automation platform, specifically designed for the MSP business model. His mission is to provide every MSP with state-of-the-art business process automation and the KPIs they need to grow and succeed.

Matt Lee has dedicated the last 10 years to raising the security tide in the SMB market. His efforts have served in every capacity in a growing MSP that grew to support 20,000 endpoints. His leadership around technology direction and security/compliance protected and elevated over 17,000 people in Small to midsize businesses in five states. He has since taken on a new role as a force multiplier under Brad Fugitt as the Senior director of Security and Compliance at Pax8. He is driving the external thought leadership to empower MSPs to continue to grow in their security knowledge and operability. He lives to ensure his children maintain the same quality of life we do around technology, which is imperiled daily by threat actors.

With over 25 years of professional IT experience, Matthew Cochran combines a highly technical skill set with motivating managerial and interpersonal methodology to transform an ordinarily cost-associated business component into a competitive advantage. The information technology director oversees a staff of 19 who handle business and engineering applications, software development, and tech services across the Hendrick Motorsports campus.

Matthew specializes in Cloud Migration, the Microsoft Ecosystem, data center design, and project management among many other skills.  Since joining Hendrick Motorsports in January 2001, he has shared in the team’s success including over 175 Cup series wins, 10 Cup series championships, 1 Truck series championship, and 1 Xfinity series championship.

Matt Hocken is the Director of Cloud Know How, a Professional Services company, with over 15 years’ experience in the IT Technology industry. Matt started his career as a software engineer at a large defence company in the UK with an appetite for Data and Data Analysis. This appetite lead to Matt forming his own department servicing the MoD’s Business Intelligence needs. Matt then took the next step and took charge of Cloud Know How in late 2021 which specialises in a variety of cloud technologies, delivering through specialist implementation and support teams.

Melanie Purkis is the Director of Managed Hosting Products at Liquid Web. Her career spans nearly 30 years and includes professional leadership, project management, process development, program management, product marketing, network engineering and technical support. She is also a U.S. Army veteran.
Passionate about looking to the market to drive strategic decisions and finding unique niches in competitive industries, she now helms a team responsible for product success organization-wide. She is a champion for women who are considering a career in technology. She encourages women seeking to enter the tech world to understand that there is a wide range of opportunities, such as business, finance, legal, marketing, and creative, that many do not even realize. The field is wide-ranging and full of opportunities, as she herself has experienced.

Michael brings over 20 years of marketing leadership to Acronis with most of that experience in cybersecurity. He started his career in sales, progressed into a Sales Engineering role, ran global product management and marketing teams, and has had additional leadership roles in corporate communications and branding. He brings a diverse range of marketing experience and success that is hard to match. Strategically, he has helped position numerous products and companies in existing categories and even launched new categories. He believes that: “while it’s important to establish a strong brand people can emotionally connect with, the truth is always in the numbers.” I am confident that Michael’s expertise in cybersecurity marketing will be instrumental in getting Acronis to a leadership position in endpoint security, drive consumption of Acronis Cyber Protect and adoption of Advanced Packs.

Moreover, Michael has experience in startups like Cofense (email security), as well as in established companies, such as Juniper and HP, which has given him the large company perspective of operating at scale while maintaining a scrappy, fast-paced attitude.

Michael received his BS in Engineering from The Ohio State University and his Masters of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.

Michael is passionate about creating world-class experiences and innovative technology solutions that help businesses achieve their goals.

With more than 25 years of experience in selling IT and cloud solutions to SMBs, Michael’s expertise lies in combining technology and customer requirements into real-life solutions.

As Senior Vice President Cloud Services, Michael is responsible for leading the Microsoft cloud and security services business across Vuzion and the broader Infinigate Group.  Focused on delivering against the company’s promise of value-add distribution, helping the IT channel build successful cloud businesses.

He previously led Microsoft’s SMB Managed Reseller channel across Western Europe, accelerating the transition to selling cloud services, and built the Office 365 Syndication business to one million users.

Married with 3 children, he spends most of his spare time with the family, and is an enthusiastic skier and avid Formula 1 fan.

Mike Goldberg has more than 20 years of experience in the IT channel and software sales. He is passionate about building partnerships that drive rapid growth and maintains a strong track record of sales leadership.

Mike leads the global sales teams for ConnectWise Unified Monitoring and Management (UMM) and Business Management System (BMS) platforms. He serves the community, channel, and strategic relationships based on a variety of revenue and product adoption focused positions held in the channel. These include Vice President of Sales at Axcient and Vice President of Global Inside Sales at FireMon.

When he’s not working, he loves spending quality time with his family.

Miltos is the VP of Sales of the interworks.cloud platform, responsible for platform customers globally. He is passionate about the cloud transformation and strongly believes in the importance of streamlining customer experience and simplifying complex technology and commercial concepts. Before joining interworks.cloud he held positions in sales, business development and data analytics for technology startups and corporations. Miltos holds a BSc in Business Administration majoring in Computer Science and an MBA with a concentration in e-commerce from the University of Rochester, NY.

Motti works with existing customers to educate and help them maximize their product knowledge and solve issues that may arise. Motti focuses on building sustainable customer relationships by optimizing their asset protection and leveraging the value of customer satisfaction. Motti has worked in people-centered roles at Applause, Red Bend Software, and Nuance Communications.

Oleg is the technology leader at Acronis, and ambassador to our internal and external communities. He drives Acronis’ strategic technology projects with the primary responsibility of designing and implementing a companywide Innovation Policy, which includes intellectual property development, reactive and proactive IP protection, portfolio design, product development guidelines, and processes for effective intellectual property protection.

Within the last three years, Oleg heads and drives several important Divisions within Acronis:

• Acronis Cyber Systems Team; responsible for: Acronis Cyber Systems projects (SalesForce, BSS/OSS/ERP, End-Customer/Partner LifeCycle, Billling Operations);
• Design Team; responsible for: Product Design (Backup & Security, Storage & Virtualization, Consumer, UX Research, User management & Monitoring, – Digital Design, Brand and Print Design);
• Product Management Team, responsible for: All product management for our products + All product management for our Platform and integrations with other products;

Oleg is leading some special projects and productive partnerships with key technology partners and evangelizing to strategic customers. Other responsibilities include managing Acronis IP and ensuring the harmony among product roadmaps.

Best known as a co-founder of Parallels (aka Odin, SWsoft), Oleg has led cross-cultural teams for over 20 years and enjoyed a fantastic track record of designing, architecting, building and supporting Odin Automation. Oleg holds a Master of Science Degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Computer Science and a Bachelor Degree in Radiophysics from the same school.

Pat Cannon is US Signal’s Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As a seasoned professional with over 15 years of IT consulting and leadership experience, Pat has extensive experience architecting scalable, secure, and resilient solutions for customers in a wide variety of industries. Pat’s experience as an IT consultant allows him to look at business objectives and technology options to produce solutions that have a meaningful impact on customer operations.

Top performing Sales executive with experience building and growing Enterprise, SMB and Public Sector software sales teams. Proven leader with experience hiring and cultivating successful sales representatives, developing internal processes, analyzing tends and driving accountability across an organization consisting of inside & outside sales professionals. Persuasive communicator with excellent analytical, presentation and interpersonal skills.

Patrick Dolan specializes in go-to-market strategies, product positioning and value creation for hosting companies. He has almost 30 years’ experience in the hosting industry, stretching back to the dot com boom in the 90s when he transformed businesses with innovative e-commerce solutions. Patrick has held business development roles at some the world’s largest hosting providers, and now continues to help hosting businesses grow using Virtuozzo’s proven hosting and cloud solutions and services.

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.

Patrick Willis is widely recognized as one of the greatest linebackers in football history. He attained unrivaled success from his high school days playing in Bruceton, Tennessee, to his four years dominating the Southeastern Conference while playing at Ole Miss, to his 8-year career as a legendary linebacker for the 49ers. He demonstrated at every level through hard work, determination, and perseverance along the way what it means to be a champion at heart and role model to others.

As the oldest of four children growing up in a small town with very limited resources, Patrick served as both a big brother and mentor to his younger siblings. He held various jobs early in life to help contribute to his family. By the time he reached high school, Willis was a standout football, basketball, and baseball player. While starring at Central High as a running back and linebacker, Willis became the first player in Tennessee history to be nominated for the Mr. Football Award as both a lineman and back in the same season.

Despite that success, he was regarded as a 3-star prospect and received limited scholarship opportunities to play Division I college football. When Willis visited Oxford, MS, he knew right away that Ole Miss was the place for him. As a true freshman in 2003, Willis made an immediate impact for the Rebels, playing in all 13 games and contributing on defense and special teams. He also excelled in the classroom, earning the Scholar Athlete Award from the Ole Miss chapter of the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame.

During his sophomore year, he developed into one of the best linebackers in the Southeastern Conference, receiving honorable mention All-SEC honors from the Associated Press. By his junior year, Willis dominated at middle linebacker, leading the conference in tackles per game and being named SEC Defensive Player of the Year, 1st Team All-SEC, and 1st Team All-American.

Although tempted to declare for the NFL Draft following that campaign, Willis remained at Ole Miss for his senior season, which turned out to be a great decision. He once again led the SEC in tackles and was named SEC Defensive Player of the Year, was a consensus 1st Team All-American, and won the prestigious Butkus Award as the most outstanding linebacker in college football.

The following spring, Willis was selected 11th overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2007 NFL Draft. It didn’t take long to demonstrate that he would achieve similar success in the league. As a rookie, he led the NFL in tackles, was selected to the Pro Bowl, named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, and was selected as a 1st Team All-Pro. That success continued throughout his career, with Willis being chosen for seven straight Pro Bowls, receiving five 1st Team and two 2nd Team All-Pro selections, and widely being regarded as the most dominant linebacker in the NFL.

Following his eighth season, which was cut short by a foot injury that required surgery, Willis was forced into early retirement from the league. His impact over the first seven years of his career did not go unnoticed. Willis was inducted into the 49ers Hall of Fame, receiving his “Red Jacket”, in 2021. That same year, he was also selected as a finalist for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the highest honor a football player can attain.

Petar Hristov has over 7 years of experience in digital marketing and mainly SEO. He is currently Senior SEO Manager in Acronis, a world leader in cyber protection & data security. Petar has a passion about SEO and Digital Marketing as a whole. He started his SEO road in a Bulgarian agency back in 2015.

Two years later, Petar created his own local based SEO agency which was tailored B2B Clients. His passion is creating in-depth SEO Content Strategies for websites, that satisfy user experience and bring in results to the client.

MSP luminary, Ray Orsini, will be recording industry podcasts LIVE from the Acronis Cyber Studio in the Luster Gallery.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer of OITVOIP with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Champion for the MSP community, Moderator of the MSP Subreddit (r/msp) with over 114k members, featured speaker on process and procedure and Expert at generating sticky VoIP revenue for IT professionals. Strong business development professional with a Masters of Engineering focused in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from DeVry University-Florida.

https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/ 

https://www.youtube.com/oitvoip

Rayanne is the owner of ABC Solutions, LLC in Clearwater, Florida providing accounting, tax, and PSA consulting services to IT Professionals throughout North America. She is a Certified QuickBooks Professional Advisor in QuickBooks Desktop and Online. She holds a degree in accounting and is enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service.

Rayanne is also a partner with Sell My MSP. With expertise in managed service providers, Sell My MSP provides unique guidance through the merger/acquisition process including business valuation services.

She is the Treasurer with the National Society of IT Service Providers. Rayanne teaches courses through Bigger Brains and ITSP University to help IT Professionals understand their business finances and profitability. She also provides information through speaking engagements at various channel events, social media such as the PSA Impact Podcast series, and publishing articles through various IT Channel periodicals.

As an IT professional with over 25 years of experience with cybersecurity and data protection, Regis uses his customer-focused approach to lead highly productive sales teams.

Combining an MBA in Business Management with a strong technical background, he specializes in large-account business development. He has been working for Acronis since 2019, developing the exciting Brazilian market.

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

https://tubb.co/TubbTalk

MSP luminary, Rick Smith, will be recording industry podcasts LIVE from the Acronis Cyber Studio in the Luster Gallery.

Rick is the Founder and CEO of Renactus Technology LLC., a Managed Serviced Provider based in Union, NJ.  Renactus primary focus is to provide professional in-house IT services to small and medium businesses, who do not have on-staff support or expertise.  The goal at Renactus is to relieve the business owner of the stress and complications of their technology and “Simply Make IT Work” for them.

A 1992 graduate of the University of Rochester with a BA in Economics, Rick spent a few years working in the finance sector, but was quickly drawn to the exciting world of technology and the internet.  Initially building and repairing computers for friends and family as a hobby, that quickly turned into a home-based business, forcing him to leave the corporate world and focus on his true passion.

Rick is also the co-host of MSP Unplugged, a weekly live podcast that offers tips, tricks and strategies to IT business owners.

As a father of 3 girls, Rick has learned the 3 traits that serve him best in business: patience, understanding and seeing things from a different perspective!

Righter is responsible for all internal and external education, certification, and evangelism at Acronis. He leads a team of trainers and evangelists, working in close collaboration with the marketing team, to drive sales enablement for Acronis’s inside sales, field sales and marketing team, in addition to all of Acronis’s partners, distributors, resellers and service providers. Righter plays a crucial role in driving business growth working in close collaboration with the Acronis executive team and ensures high productivity of Acronis’ sales and marketing. In an age where the attention span of most people is shrinking, this person will know how to teach online content remotely thereby driving increased awareness and engagement of Acronis and its robust offering and platform.

Righter has over 20 years of leadership experience in the public sector/commercial education and consulting industry. Righter has a deep working knowledge of operating a global for-profit partner, employee, and customer training business to include the internal business functions of development, certification, enablement, sales, services, and operations.

As Senior Digital Media Manager Rita is responsible for overseeing Acronis’ global paid digital marketing efforts.

She brings a passion for creating connections and telling stories through digital and traditional marketing tactics. When not in the office, Rita enjoys exploring new places near and far.

Rita brings almost two decades of leadership and marketing management. Before joining Acronis in early 2020, Rita worked on in-house and agency marketing teams managing company brands through a variety of social media, public relations, campaign management, integrated marketing, content marketing, and digital marketing roles.

Rita holds Undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Marketing/Public Relations, as well as a Master’s Degree in Communications Management from Simmons College in Boston, USA.

Robert Jacobi ran 3.5% of the internet and today leads the WordPress business unit at Cloudways, a multi-cloud managed application as a service platform that lets users choose where they want their website to be hosted from a variety of options, including DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Vultr, and Linode, With 20 years experience as an open source executive, entrepreneur, and evangelist, Robert has worked with Fortune 500 companies through startups as a Global Strategist and Solution Ambassador to increase revenue and market awareness.

Robert is an international, well known, and respected speaker/contributor to open source, hosting, and infrastructure communities. He has served in multiple roles with Joomla, member of Make WordPress Hosting, contributor to ICANN At-Large, and former Chair for the Technical Outreach Working Group of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition.

https://cloudways.com/ 

Roli Points is a Sourcepass co-founder who serves as their Vice President of Strategic Alliances. A passionate leader and a technology enthusiast, Roli is responsible for building programs and driving strategic partnerships with partners such as Acronis.  In addition, Roli supports the continuing evolution of the Sourcepass sales and marketing function and go-to-market strategy.  Prior to Sourcepass, Roli has held multiple core leadership positions in her career at places like Neustar, GoDaddy and Vonage.

As Head of Curriculum and Training, Ron is responsible for curriculum and training development for enabling partners, end-users and employees at Acronis.

With over 15 years of training delivery, management and development experience in the IT software and training industry in Apac, Ron has a deep working knowledge of how training and enablement can transform individuals and companies and accelerate returns on investment.

Ronan McCurtin is the Vice President for Europe, Israel and Turkey at Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection solutions.

With more than 20 years of experience in the international IT and software industry, Ronan brings extensive experience in this segment, where he has successfully led multiple teams.

He is highly qualified and experienced in developing and improving channel business and customer relationships to create efficient distribution channels and partnerships. These efforts include working with resellers and managed service providers.

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.

Santana Moss is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons. He played college football for the University of Miami, where he earned All-American honors. Moss was picked by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2001 NFL Draft, where he spent 4 seasons with the team, before playing for the Washington Redskins for 10 seasons. Moss was selected as an All-Pro in 2005.

Known for his big play potential, Moss started the 2005 season off with a bang in Week 2 against the Dallas Cowboys, where he caught two touchdown passes of 39 and 70 yards from Mark Brunell in the last five minutes to come from behind and beat the Cowboys 14–13.

His 2005 season with the Redskins was the best in his professional career, with 84 receptions for 1,483 yards (second highest in the NFL that year), setting a new Redskins single-season receiving record – a record he still holds to this day, and nine touchdowns. In 2005, Moss also was selected to his first NFL Pro Bowl. Moss recorded 18 rushing yards and 3 catches for 39 receiving yards at the Pro Bowl.

In the 2010 season, Moss recorded 1,115 receiving yards making this the fourth time in his career that he recorded over 1,000 receiving yards. He achieved a new career high of 93 receptions to go along with six touchdowns in the 2010 season.

After the Week 11 game against the Philadelphia Eagles during the 2013 season, he surpassed 10,000 career receiving yards making him the seventh active player at that time to reach this milestone.

In his seventeen years at Egenera, Mr. Harris has filled key leadership roles in various aspects of the company including pre-sale, consulting, and support. In 2012, Scott was asked to take the lead in integrating a newly acquired cloud business in Ireland into the existing structure at Egenera. Over the next few years, this aspect of Egenera’s business grew and soon became a major focus of the company. During this time Scott played a crucial role in transforming Egenera from a product model company to a service organization, deploying clouds across the globe. Scott’s leadership helped Egenera become a recognized leader in cloud services by 2016.
As Egenera’s CEO Scott continues to leverage his knowledge of the customer experience and background in service and infrastructure management to ensure Egenera’s Xterity Cloud Solution continues to be the easiest to use, the most predictably priced, and the most customer focused IaaS provider in the market.

Sebastian Lara, Team Lead, Partner Care, is a result oriented, driven, sales professional specializing in Latin America corporate and OEM sales. With over 15 years of leadership at Acronis, Sebastian has managed sales and relationships with all distributors and resellers in Latin America, developed marketing and demand generation, recruited and enabled all strategic service providers in the region, and maintained close relationships with partners and key customers. Sebastian holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics – Finance from Bentley University.

Sheri is an award-winning marketing and communications professional with over 35 years of experience in the technology and healthcare industries. She joined Acronis from its independent subsidiary, Acronis SCS, where she was Communications Manager, supporting strategic GTM initiatives and market messaging for this US public sector business.

Previously Sheri held several roles at Dell Technologies, Director eBusiness Marketing at ASAP Software, Director of Marketing Communications at Leica and launched her own communications firm. She has an MBA in Marketing and a CDMP certification from the AMA and DMI.

Stavros is the Sales and Presales Account Manager. Also he is Acronis Certified Trainer. He is passionate about the cloud transformation and Backup, Disaster Recovery and Cybersecurity. Before joining interworks.cloud he held positions in sales, business development and Presales always related to backup, storage, high availability and Cloud. Stavros holds a degree from Technical Education institute of Piraeus in Computer Systems and Robotics and many certifications in various vendors and especially Acronis in Backup and Disaster Recovery.

Stephen is passionate about technology and innovation. During his career, he has held various roles in: Sales, Sales Engineering and Professional Services; with a focus on SaaS based solutions for multiple market segments and verticals.
Primarily focused on technical engagements to discover and understand the partner requirements and provide solutions.
In his spare time, he enjoys working in theater designing and building sets, technical production, and stage managing. He has also been known to spend a little time on the stage as well.

Steve Brining serves as the partner technology evangelist for Acronis Cyber Protect at Acronis. Prior to Acronis, Mr. Brining honed his skills for over 20 years as a cybersecurity expert at PatchLink, McAfee, BeyondTrust and other technology companies. Mr. Brining holds a Masters in Business Administration in E-Business and Masters in Science in Technology and Innovation Management with specialization in Cybersecurity and is a Commanding Officer in the Arizona Army National Guard.

Macca, who was an Everton supporter, arrived at Liverpool at 14 years of age. Ten days after his first England Under-21 international, Steve got his first taste of first-team action when he came on as a substitute against Sheffield United at Anfield. He next appeared in the starting line-up in the opening game of the 1991-92 season. Macca had a sensational season, playing 51 games and scoring 10 goals, and crowned it with a man-of-the-match performance in the FA Cup final at Wembley against Sunderland. He kept on going the following season by playing 41 and scoring seven goals.

When Roy Evans took over in 1994, Macca was given a free role and no longer being tied to the wings, which inspired him to new heights. Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 6-1 in the first game of the season, and he netted twice.

His best performance was the 1995 Coca-Cola Cup final at Wembley when he scored two fantastic goals in a 2-1 win over Bolton. So good was his performance Kopites called it ‘The McManaman final.’

He then enjoyed a fantastic 1995-96 season and his link-up play with great friend Robbie Fowler was just sensational.  Liverpool showed championship form at times but the season ended in disappointment. The summer went well though for him when he starred for England in Euro 96, reaching the semi-finals.

That autumn speculation was rife that Juventus and Barcelona were going to offer £12 million pounds for him.

In 1997-98 captain John Barnes left Liverpool and Macca, now the most experienced player in the side, became vice-captain to Paul Ince. He scored 12 goals that season, including sensational goals against Celtic and Arsenal.

Macca’s ninth and last season was not a pleasant one. Tiredness had set in from playing constantly for years and niggling injuries prevented him from impressing new boss Gerard Houllier. In the beginning of November, Macca was ordered to take complete rest until Christmas.

At the end of January, he announced he would be leaving for European champions Real Madrid on a Bosman deal. Real discovered the lad could also play and he starred in the Champions league final in his first season, scoring a superb goal.

He later came back to England to play for Manchester City alongside good mate Robbie Fowler, and is now a respected football TV pundit. Previous Clubs: Real Madrid, Manchester City

Taher Hamid started as a Marketing Intern at Alltek Services 7 years ago while going through graduate school at USF. After building the marketing foundation of the company, he was quickly promoted to Marketing Manager. He now serves as the Vice President and manages the Marketing, Account Management, and Sales team at Alltek Services.

In the MSP Space, Marketing is a marathon not a sprint. The initiatives Taher began in his early years at Alltek now consistently provide new leads every week. He has helped grow Alltek from a small IT shop with 3 employees, to a multi-million-dollar MSP with a staff of 26.

He is passionate about educating the MSP community on good marketing. Most MSPs are great in the technical and operations side of the business, but lack in marketing and sales. Taher create MSP Camp as his passion project. This website provides Free comprehensive guides to MSPs to help them get their marketing deliver leads… not just invoices. He serves as the President and has a team of 5 helping him create resources and campaigns to help his peers grow!

Tery Howard is the founder of Peer Vision Consulting, whose focus is on assisting clubs and venues with strategic planning and resource structuring, delivering transformative and sustainable technology that is competitive and operationally effective. Tery has worked with several venues and clubs, most notably NASCAR, Oklahoma Thunder, Tampa Bay Lighting and Inter Miami Club Futbol as of Head Technology, focusing on the stadium construction/build projects.

Prior to Peer Vision, Tery spent 19 years as the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium, responsible for the innovation and strategy with a primary focus on club and venue technology, converging broadcast media, infrastructure, telecommunications, analytics, and business systems,  positioning the organization at the forefront of the industry.  Prior to the Dolphins, Tery started her career at Carnival Cruise Lines, pioneering the technology to automate Carnival’s fleet, over a period of 15 years.

In June, 2018 Tery was awarded the Executive of the Year award at the Stadium Business Summit, a global gathering of stadium industry leaders and renowned executives.  Tery was recognized for her achievements as a sports venue leader, pioneering the vision of digital transformation and fan experience.   Tery has also been recognized by SportsBusiness Journal as a Game Changer in Sports for her innovation and impact on the industry.  Tery was a finalist for the Technology Leader of the Year Award at the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.  Under her leadership, the Dolphins were recognized by InfoWorld as one of the “Top 100” companies that have made the best use of technology to enhance their business and also recognized by PC Magazine as one of the “Top 10” companies using technology in intelligent ways to improve their business. Finally, with Tery at the helm, her team was recognized by ComputerWorld as leaders in “Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless.”

Respected throughout the industry, Tery has published articles and is frequently called upon to contribute to IT presentations, panel discussions and workshops, locally and globally.  Tery is actively involved in various community initiatives and advisory boards, providing guidance and a leadership role in the community and beyond.  Tery was recognized by the FBI Cyber Division for her vision and support of the FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing) Internet Challenge and was tapped as the recipient of the “Glass Ceiling Award” from Florida Diversity Council. She now serves as an advisor to the Florida CIO Executive Council and Sports and Entertainment Alliance and Technology. Additionally, she serves on the St. Thomas University’s Dean’s Advisory Council, as well as engaging in speaking and panel member invitations throughout the U.S. and abroad on a variety of technology topics.

Tery resides in Miami Florida with her husband, Eric, and three children.

Tim has spent 19+ years at Climb Channel Solutions.  His journey began in October of 2003, where he was hired as an Inside Account Executive.  He was promoted to Manager of the Virtual Solutions Team when the company distributed VMware and managed that team through 2008.  Over the course of the next 10 years, Tim was Sales Manager and Director of Sales for the company’s VAR segment of business.  He was promoted to VP of Sales in January of 2018, VP of Sales & Operations in January 2022 before being named President, North America in July 2022.  Prior to Climb, Tim spent the beginning part of his career at Depot America, a distributor for HP and Lexmark spare printer parts.

MSP luminary, Tom Lawrence, will be recording industry podcasts LIVE from the Acronis Cyber Studio in the Luster Gallery.

I have worked in IT since 1995, started my company Lawrence Technology Services in 2003 and my passion for technology is prevalent in everything I do. I have been a long time an open source advocate and utilize a variety of open source projects for client solutions.

https://lawrencesystems.com/ 

With me, it’s all about the startup mindset, leveling the playing field, and leaving something more innovative than what you found.

As Vice President of Strategy at ConnectWise, I’m responsible for executing our ambition to be the most innovative, trusted, and delightful company in our industry.

Prior to moving to Tampa, I was a partner in a software company called LANware, Inc. which developed network monitoring software and later sold it to a public company. In addition, I have managed a variety of industry-leading IT management software products/suites, led due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, created go-to-market plans for emerging technologies, and cultivated significant partner/market share growth. My background includes design, implementation, and troubleshooting TCP/IP networks, attending the University of Houston for MIS, and teaching network engineering courses at MTI College of Business and Technology in Houston, Texas.

Technologist, Solutions Architect and Business Strategist—Tye Hayes leads with over 20 years of experience in delivering efficiency, reliability, and innovation in the Information Technology industry.

As the founder and CEO of Atlanta-based tech firm N-Ovate Solutions—Hayes provides comprehensive solutions for companies and organizations within the technology, education, and government sectors.

N-Ovate Solutions specializes in providing thought-leadership, project plans, operations management, and technology activations; while helping clients maximize strategic spend with innovative solutions, optimize operational cost, and secure, streamlined solutions to technology problems.

Hayes served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the City of Atlanta, Leading digital transformation following its cyber breach in 2014, Hayes guided the City through Superbowl LIII and a global pandemic. She has also served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Atlanta Public Schools. In this role, Hayes stabilized and restructured the district’s IT operations by focusing on innovation and citizen-centered services, increasing the agencies’ overall efficiency and equity through updates and business process improvements.

With a comprehensive understanding of IT services, Hayes previously served as an Information Security Officer for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics where she led the Information Security Compliance and Governance group. In this role, she directed information and data integrity for all IT functions, helping the company create its first Information Security Roadmap and an Integrated Forensics and Computer Incident Response team.

Hayes’ established track record of technology leadership and digital transformation have been recognized by both local and national organizations. Hayes was a 2014 recipient of the prestigious CIO 100 Award as well as the recipient of the STEM Women of Color for IT Leadership Award and the Modern-Day Technology Leader, Black Engineer Award.

With an unwavering dedication to digital literacy for all people, Hayes serves a number of organizations leading discussions on technology tools for learning and achievement as well as teaching her strategy for technical decision making that leads to robust information technology systems for small businesses and corporations alike.

Hayes has made long-lasting contributions to our nation as a former United States Navy Officer. She holds a master’s degree in Managerial Strategy and Economics from New York Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management from Georgia State University.

Passionate about the Development and Growth of the Human Being, Innovation, Technology, Business, Entrepreneurship and Exponentiality; with a track record of more than 15 years in the DataCenter and Cloud Computing market developing design, construction, operation programs and commercialization of DataCenters and Cloud Computing, more than 15 years in the Development of Products and Services for DataCenter and Cloud Computing, Advisor and Consultant in the Development of New Business Models and Digital Transformation, Mentoring StartUps in the development of Exponential Products and Services.

Apasionado por el Desarrollo y Crecimiento del Ser Humano, la Innovación, la Tecnología, los Negocios, el Emprendimiento y la Exponencialidad; con una trayectoria de más de 15 años en el mercado de DataCenter y Cloud Computing desarrollando programas de diseño, construcción, operación y comercialización de DataCenters y Cloud Computing, más de 15 años en el Desarrollo de Productos y Servicios para DataCenter y Cloud Computing, Asesor y Consultor en Desarrollo de Nuevos Modelos de Negocios y Transformación Digital, Mentoring a StartUps en desarrollo de Productos y Servicios Exponenciales.

Wayne is VP, Cybersecurity Programs and the Executive Director for the CompTIA ISAO.  He is co-author-contributor and past facilitator for the ConnectWise MSP+ Framework, Playbooks and Certify Fundamentals and Advanced Courses. Wayne uses his more than 25 years of experience and leadership in planning, managing and delivering information security deployments to help CompTIA members secure their and their customer’s sensitive/business critical data. He joined CompTIA in March 2022 and ConnectWise in 2018 when the company acquired Sienna Group, a security solutions provider. During his five years at Sienna Group, he served as a principal consultant who focused on data classification, FISMA compliance and managed security services. Prior to that, he was a senior director of federal services for Symantec where he oversaw delivery and project management functions for the Department of Defense and other federal organizations, a network engineer for BAE Systems who identified and documents information security best practices, and a senior network management architect for Belenos Inc. where he developed a network management practice for the company’s southeast region. Wayne held the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and recently acquired the Certified Data Protection Solutions Engineer (CDPSE). He currently resides in the Tampa Bay Area.