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Bachelor's degree
(1992 - 1994)
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(1993 - 1993)
2024
2024
Building "pragmatic AGI" platform: AI Multi-Agents to solve real business tasks.
2022
2022
2021
2021
Looking for deep-tech visionary companies from Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East to invest in and help grow globally.
2020 - 2022
2022 - 2022
2020 - 2022
Scaling Inten.to - a #1 AI integration platform for practical applications - to a billion-dollar business. Intento is a fast-growing (2.5-3x every year since founding) startup with patented technology to quickly and seamlessly integrate any cognitive AI APIs into your company's workflow. Tasks that we help solve much cheaper and faster than legacy human-based methods include translation and localization, text to speech and speech to text, subtitling, text sentiment analysis, and many others. I am leading the business team at intento, which includes sales and marketing, customer success and professional services, and others - everything except R&D.
2011 - 2019
2011 - 2019
During my 8 years tenure at Veeam as a key member of the nine people executive team, I played a crucial role in building the company from under $20M in annual revenues in 2010 to over $1 billion USD at the end of 2018. Leading teams of over 500 people, I ran the quarterly and yearly executive planning rhythms with the executive team; sales in the US, Canada, LATAM, and European Emerging Markets regions; global maintenance renewal business, generating over $200M annually; sales and marketing operations team, supporting all company's business processes, as well as business IT systems unit, supporting and executing these processes.
2007 - 2011
2007 - 2011
- While leading VMWare Russia / CIS Team within 4 years, I have built the team, office and operations from scratch (less than 300k revenue and zero people when I joined) to $30M in my last year on board - Growing business 2.5 times in 2010 year over year - Stepping up to lead VMware Russia / CIS team as a Regional Manager in very challenging 2009 conditions - Growing VMware revenue YoY in H1 2009 despite Russian IT market falling by over 40% YoY
2004 - 2007
2004 - 2007
Responsible for joint Microsoft business with HP, SAP, Accenture and others in the Russian market, totalling over $35M a year. Developed business opportunities, managed alliance relationship, being responsible for strategic planning & execution of the key projects for enterprise customers.
2002 - 2004
2002 - 2004
Driving marketing strategy and execution while repositioning the company from a web-developer into a leading IT consultant for Retail industry in Moscow.
1999 - 2002
1999 - 2002
Started a mobile & wireless solutions unit and built it up from scratch to ~ $250,000 sales within a year. At present, the unit has been transformed into a separate mobile products & services company Sibinco (http://www.sibinco.ru)