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Management

Arkady Volozh, Co-Founder & CEO

Arkady Volozh is one of our co-founders and has been our Chief Executive Officer and a director since 2000. A serial entrepreneur with a background in computer science, Mr. Volozh co-founded several successful IT enterprises, including InfiNet Wireless, a Russian provider of wireless networking technology, and CompTek International, one of the largest distributors of network and telecom equipment in Russia. In 2000, Arkady left his position of CEO at CompTek to become the CEO of Yandex. Prior to this, the yandex.ru site was one of CompTek’s projects. Mr. Volozh has been working on search since the 1990s. Among his earlier achievements was the development of electronic search for use in patents, Russian classical literature and the Bible. Mr. Volozh holds a degree in applied mathematics from the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas.

Ilya Segalovich, Co-Founder & CTO

Ilya Segalovich is one of our co-founders and has been our Chief Technology Officer and a director since 2000. He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arcadia Company, where he headed Arcadia’s software team. Mr. Segalovich placed second in the All Soviet Union Math Olympiad in 1981. Mr. Segalovich received a degree in geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute.

Nilesh Lakhani, CFO

Nilesh Lakhani was appointed our Chief Financial Officer in November 2007. Mr. Lakhani has held key executive management positions with international media, technology and financial services companies. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Lakhani was chief financial officer of CTC Media, a leading Nasdaq-listed Russian television broadcaster. Prior to that, Mr. Lakhani was vice president of global operations at Electronic Arts from 2003 to 2004. He previously served as chief financial officer of Pogo.com, a leading developer of online games, from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Lakhani served as senior vice president with Transamerica Corporation from 1991 to 1997. Mr. Lakhani also worked with GE Capital from 1984 to 1991, where he was responsible for financing mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Lakhani received a B.A. in economics from the University of Manchester and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of San Francisco.

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Arkady Volozh

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