Turn AI into customer value
Translate emerging AI capabilities into trusted, useful products that solve real customer problems and create measurable business value.
Chief Product Officer / Singapore
Yury Averkiev
Chief Product Officer at Acronis, leading integrated cyber protection for MSPs and enterprises.
I bring cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management together in products that are easier to use and scale. For over 20 years, I have built and scaled software platforms and led global product teams.
At Acronis: I lead a global product organization of 100+ people, shaping cyber protection strategy and practical AI applications that improve customer outcomes.
Product thesis
Protection should be integrated, intelligent, and simple to operate at scale.
How I lead
Turning strategy into products at scale.
Build platforms that work as one
Unify data, products, packaging, and experiences into integrated SaaS platforms that create more value than their individual parts.
Build teams that keep improving
Create high-trust product organizations that learn quickly, align decisively, and raise the quality of every release.
Where I build and scale products
Products for the systems that keep modern business moving.
Executive product leadership across AI, cybersecurity, data protection, endpoint management, and SaaS platforms.
- 1 Portfolio growth Portfolio strategy · Pricing and packaging · Go-to-market · M&A integration
- 2 AI product strategy Applied AI · Platform integration · Customer value
- 3 Cybersecurity Endpoint security · EDR/XDR · MDR · DLP · Email security · SIEM
- 4 Data protection Endpoint and SaaS backup · Disaster recovery
- 5 MSP operations RMM · PSA · Endpoint management
Selected experience
From product creation to portfolio transformation.
Acronis · Current role
Chief Product Officer
Leading Acronis’ global product strategy across its cyber protection portfolio for MSPs and enterprises, including AI products that simplify protection and management. I align product, engineering, and go-to-market teams around a unified platform vision. In partnership with the CEO, CRO, and CFO, I am accountable for portfolio growth, customer retention, and gross margin.
Acronis
Senior Vice President of Product Management
Led the transition from backup products to an integrated cyber protection SaaS platform spanning backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, RMM, PSA, and True Image, helping reposition Acronis as a category leader. Acronis reached a $2.5B+ valuation during this period.
Owned a portfolio generating $500M+ in ARR with double-digit year-over-year growth and a growing recurring revenue share. Redesigned licensing, packaging, and pricing, reducing churn by 10%+ while improving ARPU and unit economics.
Parallels
Senior Product Manager
Launched a B2B product line to $10M+ revenue by year two, then rebuilt strategy, go-to-market, licensing, and roadmap planning to drive 40%+ growth.
SmartCode
Founder and Director
Built a profitable remote-desktop and endpoint-management start-up, developing one of the first RMM solutions and securing 500,000+ endpoints.
Parallels
Product Manager · Sr. Software Developer
Transitioned from senior software development into product management while remaining hands-on with architecture and development. Delivered complex software initiatives, established delivery practices, and built an application framework that became the foundation for multiple company products. Delivered software projects with budgets up to $10M.
Foundation
Technical depth. Product discipline. Commercial judgment.
Credentials
- PMP, Project Management Professional
- Certified ScrumMaster
- Pragmatic Marketing
- Introduction to Cybersecurity, NY University
Education
M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science