Investment Team

Serguei Beloussov, Ph.D., Venture Partner

Mr. Beloussov is a successful self-made entrepreneur and business executive with an outstanding 17-year track record in building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Noted as an innovator and a thought leader in virtualization, datacenter automation, and cloud computing space, Serguei is a frequent speaker at industry events internationally.

Serguei is currently the Chairman and CEO of Parallels (parallels.com). Parallels is a technology rich, high growth software company focused on enabling cloud computing services to SMBs. The Company is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud computing service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms.

Under Mr. Beloussov’s leadership, Parallels (formerly SWsoft) has quickly grown to profitability and #1 market positions with its innovative Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Desktop for Mac and Parallels Plesk Panel product lines.

Mr. Beloussov is also a founder, major investor and Chairman of the Board of Acronis (acronis.com), a global leader in storage management and disaster recovery software for consumers, SMBs and large enterprises.