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Alexander (Sasha) Galitsky

Managing Partner of Almaz Capital Partners and Skolkovo Board Member

Prior to co-founding Almaz Capital Partners, Alexander formed the Information and Communications Technology investment practice at Russian Technologies (“RT”), one of the first venture capital funds in Russia. Alexander was involved in investment community from 2003 as the President of the first TechTour-2004 event in Russia. Prior to his investment career, he founded and led as CEO five successful companies in the software, communications, semiconductor, internet and security sectors, including Elvees, ELVIS+, Elvis Telekom, TrustWorks Systems and EzWIM. Alexander has also been an individual investor and advisory/board member for a number of companies, including Magnifire (now F5, Nasdaq: FFIV), Parallels, Start-Telecom; NavMaps (now TeleAtlas), Acronis, S-Terra and PGP Inc. In 1993, he negotiated the first overseas and direct investment ever made by Sun Microsystems and pioneered in WiFi and VPN development. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Alexander served as one of the top Technical Executives for the Soviet Space industry. Alexander was honored as the most influential person in the Russian IT and Internet industry, and named “Technology Pioneer” at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2000. He earned PhD in Computer Science from joint authority of Defense Research Institute and MIPT.

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