BELGRADE (Serbia), April 3 (SeeNews) – Swiss-Singaporean software company Acronis is holding talks on the acquisition of a Serbian software company, aiming to open an office in the country, CEO Serguei Beloussov said on Friday.
"We are in discussions with at least one company which has significant operations in Serbia. If we acquire that company, we will have an office in Serbia," Beloussov said in a video file posted on the website of news agency Tanjug.
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"If the discussions fail, we will have to decide if we will open an office," he added.
Beloussov told SeeNews in a recent interview that the company aims to grow by 50% in 2020 despite the coronavirus crisis in Europe as the main challenge to Acronis’ is not related to the economic situation but to finding the top talents across the globe.
Acronis, founded in 2003, is active in cyber protection and hybrid cloud storage technology. Enhanced by AI-based Active Protection technology, blockchain-based authentication and hybrid-cloud architecture, Acronis protects all data in any environment, including physical, virtual, cloud, mobile workloads and applications.