Elya Kurktchi
Elya joined richrelevance as the head of operations, overseeing their internal IT and Production Operation environment ensuring that richrelevance continues to deliver its superior value and service to its customers.
Elya has over 19 years of global operations and executive experience, ranging from Fortune 50/100 to successful startups, which resulted in the creation of 3 Fortune 500-level companies global infrastructures and operations in less than 4 years.
Before joining richrelevance, Elya was CIO at ePO, a financial services firm that focused on taking companies public through Dutch-auctions and Reverse Shell Mergers, overseeing their technology strategy and operations.
Prior to ePO, Elya held various executive and senior management roles at Microsoft, Jenny Craig, ProfitLine and WebSideStory. Elya was also the Director of Global Operations and IT at Akamai, managing a team of 120+ and was responsible for the buildout of their global CDN and Video network, customer and network operations. Before Akamai, Elya was instrumental in building Qualcomm's corporate core infrastructure, developing new hardware and software technologies and concepts in use today by global corporations.
Earlier in his career, Elya was one of the first scientists to create a structure-based, drug design environment where the three-dimensional structure of a drug target interacts with small molecules and is used to guide drug discovery.
Elya studied towards a Doctorate in Mathematics at University of California, San Diego.
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