Who is Who in Russia

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…

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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.

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 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…