Jim Tedesco

Chief Revenue Officer Acronis

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Jim Tedesco is Chief Revenue Officer of Acronis, the cyber protection company that combines data backup, disaster recovery and security into a single platform sold largely through managed service providers. Appointed in May 2026, he owns global sales, go-to-market strategy, professional services and solution engineering, and was hired against an explicit mandate from chief executive Jan-Jaap Jager to scale the business through partners, sign more MSPs internationally, and turn what had been an opportunistic sales motion into a predictable revenue engine. He brings more than three decades of enterprise software experience across sales, operations and customer success, most of it in the data protection and infrastructure management markets that Acronis competes in.

Career Highlights

• Named Chief Revenue Officer of Acronis on May 14, 2026, with responsibility for global sales, go-to-market strategy, professional services and solution engineering.
• Hired with a specific remit to scale Acronis through its partner channel — signing more managed service providers globally and building what the company called a more predictable revenue engine.
• Immediately before Acronis, served as General Manager and Senior Vice President of Customer Success at a backup and replication software vendor, where annual recurring revenue grew from the hundreds of millions into the billions during his tenure.
• Appointed Senior Vice President of North America Sales at Veeam Software in October 2014, reporting to Veeam’s SVP of Strategic Operations and Planning, with a brief covering both direct and channel sales organisations.
• Previously Executive Vice President of Corporate Sales and Business Development at Kony, Inc., the enterprise mobility platform company.
• Earlier senior sales roles at CA Technologies, Infor and Quest Software, giving him a career spanning more than 30 years in enterprise software.

Professional Journey

Tedesco’s career has been built almost entirely in enterprise infrastructure software, in the segment where products are sold as much through partners and resellers as directly. By the time Veeam recruited him in 2014, he had already spent over twenty years in the industry, moving through senior positions at Quest Software, Infor and CA Technologies — all vendors whose businesses depended on a mix of direct enterprise selling and a broad channel — before a spell as Executive Vice President of Corporate Sales and Business Development at the mobility platform company Kony.

Veeam named him Senior Vice President of North America Sales in October 2014, citing his record of building both direct and channel sales organisations. He remained with the data protection vendor for the bulk of the following decade, moving from running regional sales into a broader General Manager and Senior Vice President role covering Customer Success. That period coincided with the company’s growth from annual recurring revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars to the billions, a trajectory his later appointment announcement credits him with helping drive.

Acronis announced his appointment as Chief Revenue Officer on May 14, 2026. The hire reflected a strategic shift at the company rather than a simple replacement: chief executive Jan-Jaap Jager framed Acronis’ next phase as scaling through partners at a higher level and building a more disciplined commercial engine, and Tedesco’s remit was drawn to match — global sales, go-to-market strategy, professional services and solution engineering all reporting into one function. Acronis’ own executive management page continues to list him as Chief Revenue Officer.

Education

No education information could be established from any primary source. Neither Acronis nor Veeam publishes his academic background, and the single secondary claim encountered (an association with Harvard Business School) could not be corroborated or distinguished from an executive-education programme, so it is not recorded here.