Employees at Acronis rank Jan-Jaap (JJ) Jager in the Top 15% of CEOs in Boston. Similarly, employees at Veeam Software rank Anand Eswaran in the Top 10% of CEOs in Seattle. Employees rate their CEO differently based on the frequency of interaction, ability to affect company culture, and drive measurable results.

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.

Anand Eswaran

CEO of Veeam Software

BIO: Anand Eswaran is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Veeam. Anand’s strategic vision, inclusive leadership and execution focus has created a track record of building and leading high growth successful global businesses. Prior to joining Veeam, Anand led RingCentral to accelerating growth and innovation, as their President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to RingCentral, Anand was responsible for Microsoft’s Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector business globally. Earlier in his tenure at Microsoft, he led Microsoft Services, Industry & Digital, Customer Care, and Customer Success — a global team of 24,000 professionals. Prior to joining Microsoft, Anand was the Executive Vice President of the $5.4B Global Services business at SAP, leading 17,000 business process and technology professionals to accelerate customer and partner value creation through SAP’s enterprise applications. He has held multiple other leadership roles including Vice President of Global Software Services at HP, Vice President of Global Professional Services at Vignette (now OpenText), and Senior Manager at Braun Consulting (now Fair Isaac). Anand is a founding member of the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) and served on the executive advisory board for 12 years. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from University of Missouri-Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from University of Mumbai, India. He is married and has two children.