Alex Fuerst is promoted to Vice President and General Manager Europe at Acronis

Alex Fuerst stepped into the new role on 1st August 2014. He will be responsible for all European sales and direct and indirect business revenue. He will also oversee and manage the strategy, growth and expansion of the region.

Alex Fuerst started at Acronis as Country Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe in October 2012. His main responsibilities have been restructuring the regional Go-To-Market strategy, strengthening the Acronis presence in SMB and midmarket sectors, and expanding the regional partner landscape with great success. This was especially the case in the main Acronis focus areas: virtualisation, mobility, consumer and cloud.

“It is our goal to be the leading provider of easy, complete and safe solutions for New Generation Data Protection”, explains Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Acronis. “Within the last two years, Alex Fuerst has very successfully reorganized and expanded the regions of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe and drove our initiatives for more innovation and partner relationships in these territories. Now it is all about enlarging and building upon this success throughout the whole of Europe, and to extend the leading role of Acronis in technologies within the main regions of this important marketplace.”

Before joining Acronis, Alex Fuerst worked for Avaya as Managing Director and Sales Leader for Austria and Switzerland. Further career milestones included Motorola, Symbol Technologies and Siemens.

Alex Fuerst graduated from the faculty of law at Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, and worked as a lawyer. Furthermore, he earned the Master of Business Administration at McDonough School of Business of Georgetown University in Washington D.C., USA.