{"id":38214,"date":"2020-04-01T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=38214"},"modified":"2020-04-01T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T01:42:40","slug":"acronis-appoints-neil-morarji-gm-in-apac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/04\/01\/acronis-appoints-neil-morarji-gm-in-apac\/","title":{"rendered":"Acronis appoints Neil Morarji GM in APAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Acronis, a player in cyber protection, announced the appointment of Neil Morarji as General Manager in Asia Pacific region. Morarji, previously the Head of Enterprise division for APAC, will now lead the growing sales team in Asia and Australasia in delivering the world\u2019s most advanced cyber protection technology by developing relationships with local partners and service providers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis operates from its dual headquarters in Singapore and Switzerland, and leads the market by offering complete cyber protection for all virtual, physical, cloud, and mobile workloads with solutions that are enhanced with integrated, AI-powered anti-ransomware and blockchain-based data notarization technologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNeil joined us at a time of growth, bringing strong leadership and unparalleled expertise in cloud distribution field to the team,\u201d said Pasha Ershow, Acronis Revenue Officer. \u201cWith our extensive global network of more than 50,000 partners, Acronis has enjoyed tremendous business growth last year \u2013 APAC being the fastest growing region. Neil\u2019s experience will also be instrumental in developing our service provider network \u2013 now 6,500 service providers worldwide and growing rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Morarji\u2019s first objectives has been to launch the new Acronis Partner Programs in APAC \u2013 under his leadership, Acronis team will help channel partners and managed service providers (MSPs) expand their portfolios and deliver fast ROI through offering innovative products and services that address the Five Vectors of Cyber Protection, ensuring the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security of all data, applications, and systems (SAPAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A critical step for the industry given the current global crisis, aiming to ease the workload for company\u2019s existing partners around the world, as well as new ones. The Partner Programs combining new partner tiers and numerous incentives, will help sustain Acronis\u2019 growth rate this year, following a whopping 30% overall business growth in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neil Morarji comes with more than 20 years of experience in the cloud and digital transformation space. Prior to joining Acronis, he managed Ingram Micro\u2019s Cloud Platform Business (Odin) in APJ. He was responsible for business growth, professional services and alliance management, driving and maintaining sustained growth across regional cloud partners. And before that, Morarji was a managing director at Parallels and Odin in Australia and New Zealand, where he built trusted partnerships with some of the countries\u2019 largest services providers and hosters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to turn the company\u2019s global strategic thinking into a local execution plan and accelerate business growth in Asia,\u201d said Morarji. \u201cNow, more than ever, the market needs Acronis\u2019 proven cyber protection solutions. We\u2019re going to continue helping our partners succeed by providing service and support that\u2019s second to none.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morarji, previously the Head of Enterprise division for APAC, will now lead the growing sales team in Asia and Australasia in delivering the world\u2019s most advanced cyber protection technology by developing relationships with local partners and service providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6662,7001,100,7103],"class_list":["post-38214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-acronis","tag-acronis-international","tag-appointment","tag-neil-morarji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}