Software Russia

Labor Laws

Russian labor law, while adhering international standards in most key areas, differs from EU and US law in significant ways…

Faces of the Industry

Nikolai Puntikov

President

First Line Software

Nikolai Puntikov is the founder of StarSoft, one of Russia’s first private software engineering firms, which he turned into a premier software services provider. In 2007, StarSoft merged with Exigen Services to become a leading force in the IT application outsourcing space in Central and Eastern Europe. Nikolai was responsible for business development and staff operations in ten R&D centers in six countries in Eastern Europe, Baltics and China.

Vladimir Sukhomlin

Professor, Moscow State University

Vladimir Sukhomlin was born in Moscow in 1945. He graduated from the faculty of Automatics and Computing at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1969. Between 1969 and 1989 he worked in the radio manufacturing industry and participated in military development projects, progressing from an engineering position to leading a large development unit…

Michael Gromov

Vice President, Head of Point of Production

T-Systems CIS

Michael Gromov has been in Russian IT industry since 1994. He is currently Head of Point of Production Russia at T-Systems—one of the world’s largest ICT providers, member of Deutsche Telekom…

Askhat Urazbaev

Co-Founder, ScrumTrek; Founder, AgileRussia

Askhat Urazbaev followed a typical career path, moving from junior developer to project manager. Later, as a process architect at Luxoft, Mr. Urazbaev became engaged in adopting “heavyweight” methodologies within several of the company’s departments…

Andrei Terekhov

Director General, TERCOM and LANIT-TERCOM; Director, Institute of Information Technologies; Head of System Programming, St. Petersburg State University

Andrei Terekhov was born in 1949. He graduated from the faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at Leningrad State University (LSU) specializing in computer software. In 1978, he published his thesis Methods for the Synthesis of Effective Work Programs

Alexis Sukharev

President and Founder

Auriga

Dr. Alexis Sukharev is President and founder of Auriga, Inc., a US-based IT services company with development centers in Russia and Lithuania. Dr. Sukharev was one of the first to explore the benefits of IT outsourcing to Russia. A consistent champion of promoting Russia as a reliable strategic partner in offshore IT outsourcing...

Dmitry Loschinin

President & Chief Executive Officer

Luxoft

Dmitry A. Loschinin has led Luxoft from its inception in April 2000. With over 20 years of IT experience, Mr. Loschinin has built a superior team of professionals and has brought Luxoft to the vanguard of global IT outsourcing…

Andrew Sviridenko

President and Founder

Spirit DSP

The future founder and owner of SPIRIT, Andrew Sviridenko, enrolled in the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of LMSU in 1984. While still a student there, he began development of a project which would ultimately earn him his first profit.

Pavel Adylin

Chief Executive Officer

Artezio

Mr. Adylin graduated from the Moscow Academy of Finance in 1997 and the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation in 1991 with a master’s degree in Electronics. A specialist with over 20 years of IT experience, he has succeeded in building a superior team of professionals.

David Yang

Founder & Chairman of the Board, ABBYY

David Yang was born in 1968 in Yerevan. He spent his first 17 years in Armenia before enrolling in the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). Mr. Yang graduated from the Faculty of General and Applied Physics in 1992, with a master’s degree in applied mathematics and physics…

Natalya Kaspersky

CEO, InfoWatch Group of Companies; Co-founder, Kaspersky Lab

Natalya Kaspersky is a co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, one of the world’s largest antivirus companies, and CEO of InfoWatch Group of Companies, specializing on developing software solutions for IT security…

Svetlana Sokolova

CEO, PROMT

Svetlana Sokolova is the President of PROMT. She received her Ph.D. from the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of Leningrad State University. She has worked at the Herzen State Pedagogical Institute, and was a senior fellow at the Laboratory of Engineering Linguistics. In 1991 Sokolova founded PROMT, a small business engaged in the development of machine translation systems.

Serguei Beloussov

Senior Partner and Investment Advisor, Runa Capital; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Parallels

Mr. Beloussov is a successful self-made entrepreneur, investor advisor with an outstanding 19-year track record in building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia.

Ilya Segalovich

Co-founder, Yandex

Ilya Segalovich holds a degree in Geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute and took second place in the All Soviet Union Math Olympiad in 1981. He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arcadia, where he headed the company’s software team…

Igor Kaloshin

Operations Director

Intel

Igor Kaloshin is Manager of SSG Operations Director with Intel Russia. His responsibilities include the alignment and support of effective coordination of business processes, such as the creation of a stable infrastructure and a favorable environment for productive employees…

Vyacheslav Nesterov

General Manager

EMC St. Petersburg Development Centre

Vyacheslav (Slava) Nesterov graduated from the faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at Leningrad State University. He holds a PhD and a doctorate in the physical and mathematical sciences awarded by Institute of Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences…

Boris Nuraliev

CEO, 1C

Boris Nuraliev was born in Moscow in 1958. He graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics (MESI) in 1980, specializing in automated control systems. Mr. Nuraliev holds a Ph.D. in Economics…

Nikolay Lebedev

President, Transas Group

Nikolay Lebedev was born in 1957 in Sochi. He graduated from the navigation faculty of the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy in Leningrad. After graduating, Mr. Lebedev worked for ten years as a navigator aboard Baltic Shipping Company vessels…

Tagir Yapparov

General Manager, I.T. Co.

Mr. Yapparov was born in 1963 in Ufa (Bashkortostan). In 1986 he graduated from the school of Physics at Moscow State University, and in 1989 he completed his Ph.D. at the faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics…

Valentin Makarov

President, RUSSOFT

Valentin Makarov was born in April 16, 1955 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. He graduated from Leningrad Aircraft Instrumentation Institute (now State University of Space Instruments, St.-Petersburg) in 1978 and had been working in Defense industry until 1985. In 1993 he attended courses of Manchester Business School and in 2000—courses of Diplomatic Academy of Russia.

Yuri Karpov

Professor, SPbSTU; President, XJ Technologies

Professor Yuri Karpov, PhD, member of the American Mathematical Society since 1975, expert in Russian research and technology field. Dr. Karpov professional interests include problems of parallel processes formal models, distributed systems modeling and analysis, and verification of distributed and parallel algorithms.

Igor Agamirzian

General Director of Russian Venture Company (RSC); Member of the Presidential Commission for Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economy (MER)

Igor Agamirzian, Ph.D., is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Executive Committee of the Russian Venture Company since May 2009. In 2007–2009 he was a General Manger of the Software Development Center of EMC Corporation in St. Petersburg. Since 1995 he worked at Microsoft.

Arcadiy Khotin

Founder

Arcadia

Arcadiy Khotin was just one of many Soviet-style Russian software engineers until the late-1980s. In 1989 he was invited to become software development director with JV Dialogue, one of the first US-Russian joint ventures, where he worked for several years…

Andrew Fedorov

CEO

Digital Design

Andrew Fedorov is one of the two founders of Digital Design. He founded the company in 1992 with Eugeny Gavrilov. The company founders wanted to contribute to the development of the emerging Russian IT industry by creating a modern company offering high quality software development services…

Alexander Egorov

CEO

Reksoft

Alexander Egorov co-founded Reksoft, one of Russia’s largest IT outsourcing companies, in 1991 and has served as its CEO from its inception.Along with his duties at Reksoft, Mr. Egorov has served on the boards of directors for a number of successful joint ventures in the field of information technologies.

Alexey Golosov

President

FORS

Alexey Golosov graduated from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics in 1978. He received his PhD from the Institute of Systems Research of the Academy of Science in 1983…

Eugene Kaspersky

CEO & Co-Founder, Kaspersky Lab

Eugene Kaspersky was born in 1965. In 1987 he graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, where he studied mathematics, cryptography and computer technology, majoring in mathematical engineering…

Arkadiy Dobkin

CEO and President

EPAM Systems

Arkadiy Dobkin is the cofounder, CEO and President of EPAM Systems. Under his direction EPAM has grown to become one of the world’s leading software development outsourcing services companies…

Alexander Andreev

Founder and CEO

SoftJoys

Alexander Andreev graduated from Saint Petersburg State University with degree in Physics. After post graduate studies in field of Digital Signal Processing Applications he taught mathematics in University of Aerospace Instrumentation for ten years. At the same time Alexander established SoftJoys, one of the first Russian software development companies. In 1999 he co-founded SJ Labs, US company, which shortly became a world leader in VOIP software.

Victor Ivannikov

Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Dr. Sci. (Phys.–Math.); Director of the Institute of System Programming

Victor Ivannikov is a prominent scientist in the field of computer engineering and programming. Born in 1940, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1963 where he specialized in mathematical computation devices and appliances…

Julia Khitrova

VP Sales & Marketing

Speech Technology Center

Julia Khitrova is VP of Sales and Marketing at Speech Technology Center, Russia. She received a master’s degree in engineering and then turned to marketing and finance in the hi-tech sector…

Anatoly Gaverdovsky

Founder & CEO, yaM Labs; Founder & Director, invisibleCRM

Anatoly was born in Moscow, graduated from the MSTU of Bauman and the International Space University in Toronto, Canada. In 1993 he founded the Vested Development, Inc. (VDI), which specialized in development of IT services for U.S. customers (by 2004 the company employed over 400 people, having headquarters and sales office in the U.S. and engineering offices in Russia, Ukraine and Armenia). Prior to 2002 Anatoly was Director of Development and Vice President of VDI and then he headed the company becoming the CEO.

Why Russia

Native talent and education system:
- Quality vs. quantity: while India and China have vastly more people, Russian programmers are on average significantly better educated and trained
- Russian educational system is traditionally strong in fundamental sciences and math, leading to Russian programmers being well trained in problem solving and algorithmic thinking…

Captive R&D centers

Research and development (R&D) centers owned by foreign multinational companies first began to appear in Russia in the 1990s with Debis (now T-Systems) opening in 1995, followed by Intel and Deutsche Bank in 2001, and Oracle (which now incorporates Sun Microsystems) in 2004. The trend continues with new R&D centers…

Independent Software Vendors

An ISV (independent software vendor) develops and sells its own software products and ready-made solutions on both the Russian domestic market and for export. It’s difficult to estimate the total revenue of Russian software vendors…

Doing IT business in Russia

IT hubs (cities)

The majority of Russia’s export-oriented outsourcers are located in the country’s major cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Nizhny Novgorod. According to the RUSSOFT survey, Novosibirsk, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Veliky Novgorod and Kazan are among the top ten Russian software development destinations…

Regulatory climate

Since Russia’s emergence as a market-based and globally integrated economy, the country has been successful in enacting rational legislation and creating commercial and institutional structures that favor the implementation of software outsourcing agreements that are binding and enforceable, and allowing it software outsourcing to grow and operate efficiently…

Labor laws

Russian labor law, while adhering international standards in most key areas, differs from EU and US law in significant ways that may increase the burdens placed upon an employer. While the letter of the law is extremely exacting, in practice there are many ways in which employers can and do get around the laws. Not only is there a difference in the way that the laws are laid out…

In focus

Russia’s Kaspersky Compiles List of Main Threats to Mac

Russian security software company Kaspersky Lab has released a list of the most pressing threats to Apple’s Mac OS X operating system, according to company sources in a report by RIA Novosti.

How to invest in Russian technoparks

Technoparks can be a boon for both foreign investors willing to set up their business in Russia

Kaspersky Plans Push for Sales to U.S. Government

Skolkovo VP Sued as Kremlin Patron Resigns

Tax Breaks Take Center Stage

News

Revenues at Russia’s Technoserv Up by 6.9 Percent

19 Jun 2013

Revenues at Technoserv, Russia’s leading provider of products and technologies and the country’s largest company dedicated to system integration, IT services and the creation of engineering facilities, has reported revenues of 43 billion rubles ($1.35 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 31. This is up 6.9 percent on figures for 2012, according to the company.

Almost 40 billion rubles (93 percent) of revenues were accounted for by system integration, with five percent coming from consulting services, and the remaining two percent from software development.

IAOP EuroWeek 2013 Lands in St. Petersburg

EPAM Named to Forbes List and Wins Oracle Award

Russian Tech Start-Ups join MassChallenge’s Best

Medvedev’s Cabinet Compels State-Owned Corporations to Buy Russian Tech

Russia’s Kaspersky Among Leading Software for Mobile Device Management

Russia Moves to Foster Ties Between IT and Academia

AlterGeo and Ecwid Top the Rating of Russian Start-Ups

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