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Management

Serguei Beloussov, CEO, Chairman

Mr. Beloussov is a successful self-made entrepreneur and business executive with an outstanding 15-year track record in building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Since 2003, he has been the Chairman and CEO of Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software for consumers, businesses and service providers. Under Mr. Beloussov's leadership, Parallels has quickly grown to profitability and #1 market positions with its innovative desktop virtualization, OS containers and control panel product lines. He is also a Founder and major investor in Acronis, a global leader in storage management and disaster recovery software for consumers, SMBs and large enterprises. Previously, Mr. Beloussov co-founded and helped grow a PC manufacturing business to $150 million in revenue in less than 3 years, the S&W electronics company to over $500 million in only 8 years, Solomon Software SEA - each of which has become the first year of inception. He holds a B.S. in Physics, an M.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering with High Honors, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Jack Zubarev, President

Mr. Zubarev is a founder and the president of Parallels’ Service Provider division worldwide including sales and operations for hosting and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Since the company's founding in 1999, he has held multiple leadership roles within the company including chief operating officer, sales engineering, product marketing and business development. Zubarev has been instrumental in building the company from its start to today with more than 900 employees. Zubarev was also a founder of Acronis and helped establish the storage management company's sales and marketing organizations in the United States. Previously, he handled product marketing for Pervasive Software and brought its first Linux product to market. Zubarev holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Matt Domo, CTO

Mr. Domo leads the technical strategy and architecture for all Parallels products. He previously held the positions of General Manager of SimpleDB as part of Amazon Web Services and Director of Enterprise Commerce Services at Amazon. As General Manager, he was responsible for the technical, operational and P&L aspects for SimpleDB. Amazon SimpleDB is the first cloud computing database creating a new database market category as part of the Amazon Web Services platform. As Director Enterprise Commerce Services at Amazon, Mr. Domo’s team launched seven Enterprise multi-channel ecommerce websites in the US and UK markets including bebe.com, Sears.ca, Mothercare.co.uk generating over $150 million in annual GMS and $42 million in annual revenue. Prior to joining Amazon, Mr. Domo held several senior engineering positions during his 14 year tenure within Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Domo was the Product Unit Manager for the Speech Server 2005 product that won several industry awards including Frost and Sullivan’s "Most Innovative Enterprise Infrastructure Product 2005". Prior to Speech Server, Mr. Domo was the divisional architect and Product Unit Leader for the bCentral web services platform within Microsoft. Prior to bCentral, Mr. Domo held several senior product engineering leadership roles within the SQL Server business unit. Mr. Domo holds a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from Ohio State University.

Board of Directors

Serguei Beloussov

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Jack Zubarev

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Jeremy Levine

Mr. Levine focuses primarily on software and Internet investments for Bessemer. Prior to joining BVP in 2001, Jeremy was Vice President of Operations at Dash, an Internet software publisher. Jeremy joined Dash from AEA Investors, a private equity firm with an expertise in leveraged and management buyouts, where he specialized in consumer products and light industrials in the U.S. and in Europe. Earlier, he was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, helping Fortune 500 financial services and consumer products companies address challenges in strategy and technology. Jeremy graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics.

Board of Advisors

Dr. Alexander Galitsky

Dr. Galitsky is an internationally renowned technology entrepreneur and inventor. During Soviet times, he was the youngest top technical executive in the defense industry with responsibility for low orbit data communication systems. Since then, Galitsky has founded four successful technology companies. He pioneered ELVIS+ in WiFi technology and commercial implementation of FW/VPN products for the global market with Sun Microsystems. With TrustWorks, he became a "Technology Pioneer" at the Davos World Economic Forum 2000. Galitsky was recently Venture Partner with Russian Technologies Fund and recently founded Almaz Capital Partners, a USA-Russian based VC fund. Dr. Galitsky has authored more than a hundred international publications and more than 30 inventions and patents. He’s been a featured speaker at numerous international conferences and has been interviewed and profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, The Financial Times. Dr. Galitsky received his Ph.D in Computer Science from joint authority of the Defense Research Institute/MIPT in Moscow.

Achim Weiss

Mr. Weiss studied computer science at the technical university of Karlsruhe, Germany. He was one of the founders of Schlund + Partner AG which merged with 1&1 Internat AG in 1998. In his position as CTO Mr. Weiss was responsible for all R&D, project management, and system administration with a staff of 800+ engineers. He also managed the building of four large datacenters in Germany and the United States. Mr. Weiss currently acts as a independent software consultant and venture capitalist.

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