Top 10 Russian Internet CEOs

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).