Arkady Volozh
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.
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