Entrepreneurs

Alexey Krainov

Alexey Krainov

ClipClock, Founder and CEO
  • In 2006 founded iDea Widgets - mobile widgets service which gained > 3 mln users 
  •  10 years in marketing, sales, and general management in multinational companies: Vimpelcom - BroadBand Director, Russia; Regional Director, Central Region Adidas - Retail Marketing Director, Russia British American Tobacco - National Key Account Manager 
  • Ural State Technical University, 1998, with honours Harvard Business Shool, Executive Education, 2012

Egor Rudi

Egor Rudi

Eruditor Group, Co-Founder and CEO
  • Graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of General and Applied Physics, in 2004.
  • 2005: Egor co-founded his first startup in digital marketing - Advalue.ru.
  • 2006: co-founded Vash Repetitor project with Sergey Kuznetsov (founder and CTO of Eruditor Group).
  • 2006-2009: IBM Russia, Key Account Manager in Software Department. Responsible for Telco sector. Graduated from IBM Global Sales School. Participant of IBM top talent program.
  • 2009: Founded Eruditor Group with Sergey Kuznetsov.
  • 2010: Founded summer camp for kids Stranao3.ru. Founded Tutorion.ru as a part of Eruditor Group. Raised angel 600k USD round for Eruditor Group
  • 2011: Lead several seed rounds for consumer internet startups like Lingualeo.com, Foodik.ru. Made M&A deal with Treda.ru,
  • 2012: Participated in Printio.ru's seed round in 2012. As CEO of Eruditor Group Raised 4M USD from Intel Capital and Runa Capital. Closed M&A deal of Foodik.ru and Delivery Hero GMBH (Global Leader in Food Delivery markets).

Sergey Antipin

Sergey Antipin

Domosite, CEO
  • Born in 1973 in Ivanovo, Russia
  • Graduated from MIPT in 1997
  • More than 18 years of management in the field of investment, engineering, development and energy.
  • 4 years - in the leadership of Locomotive Department of "Transmashholding".
  • 3 years - managing partner of "Ural Diesel&Motor Plant" (Ekaterinburg).

Richard Goold

Richard Goold

Station X, CEO
  • Founder and CEO of Station X, a genomics company developing software for the large-scale clinical analysis of human genomic information. 
  • Previously founded and headed up Prospect Genomics, led the company through to a successful merger with Structural Genomix.
  • Extensive experience leading teams engaged in the development of commercially-successful genomic information products
  • Over 20 years genomics experience in academia and industry
  • PhD, Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town
  • B.Pharm., M.Sc. Pharmacology, Rhodes University

Bryan Goode

Bryan Goode

Infratel, CEO
  • 15 year track record as successful business and technology executive
  • VP and General Manager of Parallels ($100M+ in revenue), a leader in cloud automation and virtualization
  • Responsible for product management, partner strategy and finance for SQL Server at Microsoft
  • Technology and telecom investment banking at Merrill Lynch
  • University of Kansas, BS Electrical Engineering
  • Columbia Business School, MBA

Aynur Abdulnasyrov

Aynur Abdulnasyrov

LinguaLeo, founder and CEO
  • Successful serial entrepreneur experienced in online and offline education and services 
  • 4+ years experience in IT-businesses HSE Business Incubator resident and graduate. 
  • Winner of “Startup of the year” in 2009, 2011 and BIT in 2011 with LinguaLeo.
  • Previouse projects: «Native speakers club», Treda.ru, ImageStars.net. All of these companies became leaders in their niches. 
  • Higher School of Economics, Economics faculty.

Aleksey Degtyarev

Aleksey Degtyarev

B2B-Center, CEO
  • 5 years as CEO at B2B-Center, one of the most successful companies in the e-commerce industry (client base - more than 100 000 companies, number of biddings - more than 200 000 with the total trading volume of $ 80 bln. Branches of the company work in Ukraine, Turkey). 
  • 2 years experience in project management of the implementation and development of e-commerce systems. 
  • Bryansk State Technical University, 2003, Major in Economics. 
  • Higher School of Economics, "Organization of bidding (tender) for the purchase of products for state needs", 2005. 
  • Ph.D in Economics, 2007.

Laurent Lathieyre

Laurent Lathieyre

Capptain, Co-founder and CEO
  • Wrote his first computer program at age of 11. Made his first money selling or publishing his software at age of 17.
  • Has more than 15 years experience in IT and entrepreneurship.
  • BSc in Computer Science. MBA in Marketing and Management.
  • Laurent worked for Borland in Eastern and Central Europe.
  • Co-founded Wcube in 1995.
  • Several ventures in the internet and mobile field.
  • One successful exit (Wcube acquired by Framfab in 2000)