Serguei Beloussov  Serguei Beloussov (; born August 2, 1971) is a Singaporean businessman, entrepreneur, investor and speaker, co-founder, CEO and chair of the board of Acronis, a global data protection company, and is the senior founding partner of Runa Capital, a technology investment firm. He is also executive chairman of the board and chief architect of Parallels, Inc., a virtualization technology company, co-founder and chairman of the board of Acumatica, an enterprise resource planning software (ERP) company, and co-founder of QWave Capital. Beloussov has filed more than 200 U.S. Patents and has an h-index of 34. Beloussov was born in 1971 in St. Petersburg and studied at 45th Physics-Mathematics School. Beloussov later attended the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, graduating in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in physics. He received his master's degree in physics and electrical engineering in 1995, and a PhD in computer science in 2007. Beloussov came to Singapore in 1994 and became a Singaporean citizen in 2001. He is Jewish. While earning his master's, Beloussov co-founded his first business, Unium (Phystech College), which provided science students with course materials. In 1992, he began working at a Russian computer company called Sunrise. Beloussov expanded the company's operations to 10 subsidiaries, becoming one of the largest PC retailers in Russia by the time he left in 1994. After leaving Sunrise, Beloussov founded and co-owned two companies: Rolsen Electronics and Solomon Software SEA. Rolsen Electronics was set up as a joint venture with Vikash Shah of Amoli Group and become one the largest consumer electronics manufacturers in Russia. Solomon Software SEA was a distributor and developer arm of mid-market ERP vendor Solomon Software in South-East Asia. Solomon Software was later acquired by Microsoft and is now known as Microsoft Dynamics SL. In 2000, Beloussov founded SWsoft, a privately held server automation and virtualization software company and the then-parent company of Parallels, Inc. and Acronis Inc. In 2001, Beloussov founded Acronis as a storage management business unit of SWsoft. In 2003, Acronis was re-organized as a separate entity focused on backup and data protection software. Acronis employs over 1,500worldwide and its products are sold in 15 languages around the world.