Employees at ABBYY rank Ulf Persson in the Top 5% of CEOs in San Francisco. Similarly, employees at Acronis rank Jan-Jaap (JJ) Jager in the Top 15% of CEOs in Boston. Employees rate their CEO differently based on the frequency of interaction, ability to affect company culture, and drive measurable results.

Ulf Persson

CEO of ABBYY

BIO: Ulf Persson has been a member of the ABBYY Group Board since 2002. In March 2015, Ulf became the Chairman of the Board. In 2017, he was appointed as the CEO of ABBYY Group. Ulf is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Mint Capital. Prior to founding Mint in 2000, he was Managing Director of the $300-million AIG-Brunswick Millennium Fund. In the first half of the 1990s, Ulf managed exports of metals and raw materials from the CIS to European and US markets, as head of the Russian office of Axel Johnson and later at AIOC Corp. Over the past 20 years, Ulf has been involved as an investor and board member in about 20 different growth companies, including Tablogix (logistics services), jNetx (telecom software), Parallel Graphics (web3D software), Socialist Ltd (social media advertising), 2V Studios (TV content production), Elecsnet (payment services), UCMS (HR & accounting BPO) and MyMoney (P2P car financing). Ulf is a graduate of Stockholm School of Economics and the Swedish Defense Language Institute and holds a B.Sc. in Economics.

Jan-Jaap (JJ) Jager

CEO of Acronis

BIO: Jan-Jaap (JJ) Jager is the Chief Executive Officer. JJ joined Acronis in 2014 to develop emerging markets. After that, he launched the Cloud business at Acronis, served as Chief Revenue Officer and Board Advisor. Before returning to Acronis as a CEO, JJ served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Virtuozzo, a leading provider of hyperconverged cloud solutions, and Chief Executive Officer of Chainstack, a leading blockchain infrastructure provider. JJ brings the wealth of experience as a serial entrepreneur, seasoned executive and investor in the technology market. Before joining Acronis, JJ held leadership roles at plusserver, Parallels, SWsoft and Microsoft. JJ holds a BSc in Economics and International Marketing from the HEAO Economics & International Business School (IBS) and an MBA from the University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt.