Alex Pinchev is an Executive Vice President and President of Global Sales and Marketing at Rackspace since January 2016. Alex oversees Rackspace’s sales and marketing organizations and is responsible for driving the company’s growth as the leader in managed cloud services. Alex brings more than 30 years of technology industry experience to Rackspace. From 2003 to 2012, Alex led sales, services and marketing at Red Hat and helped increase the company’s revenue tenfold to more than $1 billion. While at Red Hat, Alex built key relationships with many Fortune 1000 companies and launched a global partner network with major original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, independent software vendors and system integrators. After leaving Red Hat, Alex served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Acronis, a leader in data protection and disaster recovery software. Alex was most recently Chief Executive Officer at Capri Ventures, which helps tech companies develop go-to-market strategies, sales scalability and business modeling to accelerate growth. Alex currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at XebiaLabs, OneCloud Software, Apprenda and Logi Analytics. Alex holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from University ITMO in St. Petersburg, Russia.