Rackspace has appointed Alex Pinchev as executive vice president and president of global sales and marketing – responsible for sales and marketing organizations and driving growth of managed cloud services.
From 2003 to 2012, Pinchev led sales, services and marketing at Red Hat, and helped increase the company’s revenue tenfold to more than $1 billion building relationships with many Fortune 1000 companies and launching a global partner network with major original equipment manufacturers, value added resellers, independent software vendors and system integrators.
After leaving Red Hat, Pinchev served as president and CEO of Acronis, a provider of data protection and disaster recovery software.
He was most recently CEO of Capri Ventures, which helps technology start-ups develop go-to-market strategies, sales scalability and business modeling to accelerate growth.
