Ilya Shirokov
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | English, Languages, Spanish |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Stanford Business School |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | MoiKrug Corporation |
| Position: | General Manager and Co-founder |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2007 |
| Description: | Co-founded and built the largest and the fastest growing social network for Russian-speaking professionals (“The Russian LinkedIn”). Sold the company to Yandex, the leading Russian search engine with 60% market share (“The Russian Google”)
• Formulated business plan and raised financing • Managed all operations in Russian office • Designed and established work-processes to achieve the fastest product development speed in the market • Built and led a 20+ person product development team • Designed the first social network in Russia, which attracted 100,000+ customers in less than 6 months • Conducted a successful marketing campaign and won over fierce competition among social networks in late ’05 and through ‘06 • Built financial models and projections as part of acquisition process • Closed sale of firm to the largest internet company in Eastern Europe • Assured rapid integration with acquirer and effectively used synergy to attract 1,000,000+ new customers in less than 6 months after acquisition |
| Employer: | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
| Position: | Intern |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2004 |
| Description: | Designed an operational effectiveness program for a $23bn company in a 4-person team |
| Employer: | Institute for Systems Study, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Position: | Researcher (part-time) |
| Time period: | January 2000 - December 2004 |
| Description: | Developed the first Russian DSP extension for multipurpose 64-bit processor
Designed a coprocessor for Russian supercomputer, recognized by the Russian Academy of Sciences as “one of the most prominent accomplishments in year 2000” |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford Business School |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | MBA |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Certified Snowboard Instructor with 7 years experience in freeride and carving |
| Awards: | Advanced rock-n-roll dancer, won 2nd and 3rd places in international dance camp Jack & Jill
competitions in 2007 |
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Kirill Makharinsky
Ostrovok.ru, Quid, YouNoodle, Slide. focused on data, product, marketing.
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Evan Reas
Economics graduate from Ohio Wesleyan University, currently pursuing MBA at Stanford, and working as Chief Entrepreneurial Officer at “The Rainmaker” Product Launch.