Pat Hurley GM for North America, Acronis

Acronis International GmbH announced that Patrick Hurley has been appointed as GM for North America.

 He enters the role with a record in sales for data protection, and will drive growth of the company’s recently announced Acronis AnyData Engine.

He is member of Acronis’ team since 2008.

Prior to his current role, he served as senior director of sales where he built and scaled the inside sales model in the US. During this time, he increased profitability margins at the individual contributor level by increasing the average sales price and lowering cost per sale.

He also has developed a understanding of many verticals as he managed SMB, enterprise, federal, SLED and Latin American business verticals at Acronis. In 2011, he closed the largest opportunity globally for the company and accounted for the most transactions in the US over $20,000. He also led his team to 204% Virtual product growth in the Federal government vertical YTD.

Prior to joining Acronis, he worked in the financial services and banking industries spending time with Putnam Investments and IndyMac Bank.

He earned his BA at Boston College with a concentration in political science.

“Patrick has exemplified an exhaustive knowledge of many verticals within North America, and an uncanny ability to motivate sales teams for explosive growth,” said Laurent Dedenis, Acronis president of international sales. “As I move to Singapore to oversee the International HQs, I am completely confident in Patrick’s ability to drive growth and place Acronis as the leader in data protection within North America.”

“I am excited to lead the North American organization into a new generation of growth,” said Hurley. “Acronis has paired best-in-class software with a best-in-class team of talented professionals. We are working at a fast pace here at Acronis right now as we address a new generation of IT challenges head on with our AnyData technology. But with our team and well positioned solutions for virtualization, mobility and cloud, I look forward to our future success.”

Acronis recently announced a number of top executive appointments, including the addition of its new president of global operations Yury Lurichev and the appointment of Laurent Dedenis to president of international Sales. The complete configuration of Acronis’ team will ensure it is able to attain its sales goals of $1 billion in revenues for its Acronis AnyData Engine.

The Acronis AnyData Engine enables individual solutions to blend into a total solution that protects any data, across any environment, in any location, using any device. Fueled by over 50 patents, it is a set of deep new generation data protection technologies that power Acronis’ backup, DR and secure access solutions for virtual, physical, cloud and mobile environments.

Over 4.5 million consumers, SMBs and service providers employ Acronis products to protect their critical data.