ceo Archive

Yakov Sadchikov, President & CEO of visual search engine Quintura, has put together the following list of the top 10 CEOs of Internet companies located in Russia.

1. Arkady Volozh, CEO, Yandex (largest Russian search engine and contextual advertising provider).

2. Dmitri Grishin, CEO, Mail.ru (largest Russian online portal).

3. Alexey Basov, CEO, Begun (second largest contextual advertising provider in Russia).

4. Sergey Ryzhikov, CEO, 1C-Bitrix (leading web-site CMS vendor in Russia).

5. Alexander Lyskovsky, President, Alawar Entertainment (largest casual games developer and publisher in Russia and Eastern Europe).

6. Pierric Duthoit, CEO, WomanJournal (largest Russian women-centric online portal).

7. Nikita Sherman, CEO, Drimmi (social games company); formerly, President, Odnoklassniki.ru (leading social network); and President, Mamba (largest Russian online dating platform).

8. Natalya Kaspersky, co-founder & CEO, InfoWatch (leading data leak protection provider); co-founder & former CEO, Kaspersky Lab (internet security software vendor); angel investor, “А-я-яй.ру” (iii.ru).

9. Sergey Orlovsky, CEO, Nival Group (leading online games developer and publisher).

10. Oskar Hartmann, CEO, KupiVIP.ru (largest Russian online shopping club).

I am listening to the first CEO Showcase of the day for me.  This is updated as of 3:50pm today.

• PumpAudio – allows musicians to post their music for sale basically. Rather than sell to consumers like an Amie Street or Indistr, they sell music to companies for use in stores, commercials, etc. Pretty nice looking software package.
• Turn – the world's first automatic targeting ad network. No manual targeting or keywords required. Turn delivers amazing simplicity, better relevance and more revenue.
• Rovion – "human media" – creator and leading provider of technologies that "humanize" the delivery of online messages – these are the ads that I called annoying about 3 months ago. Some on the online chat seem to like these ads. I don't think they are bad, just that they need to be placed correctly and they need to always be activated by the user.
• Pando – a hybrid p2p network – they have a free consumer application empowering people to share large media. Works with im clients, and email clients, and showing large-file podcasts including TalkCrunch, rocketboom and scobleshow. The distribution and monetization platform for digital media. They claim to be the YouTube for high resolution large files.
• ClipSync – real-time social networking. Screens look very well done. Very good presentation — really engaging! He discusses entertainment as something that is emotionally satisfying. Clipsync is about syncronized sharing. Integrated search with Google Video, YouTube and Metacafe.
• Motionbox – personal video made easy. He shoots a lot of video. They offer filmstrips for easier browsing before having to commit to watching a video. They also let you create mixes of multiple videos.
• Payperpost – their mission is to connect our advertisers with the largest network of high quality publishers to promote their products online. Advertisers compensate bloggers to create sponsored content. No mention about it being a review, really being more about "content".