Sergey Gribov 9 Anita Circle, Newton, MA Phone: +1-617-7101683 E-mail: sergey @sergey.com WWW: www.sergey.com Sloan Fellow (MBA), MIT, Sloan School of Management - 2007 B.Sc, Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of Negev - 1993
SUMMARY
Entrepreneur and technology expert in startups and innovation in the fields of management of software development, IT, R&D, security as well in General Management. Particular strengths in: Startup and innovation experience across wide range of industries such as internet, finance, biotech, e-commerce and telecommunication. Full life cycle of the product development from the requirement gathering through design, development, QA to the rollout, operation, customer integration and support. Proven record as manager in both project and people management at any level from a team leader to an executive. Extensive experience working in USA, Israel and Russia as well as doing business internationally Managing people in remote international locations as well as managing offshore outsourcing
EXPERIENCE
MIT Enterprise Forum Russia, Vice Chair and part of founding team	2009 - present
As a part of the founding team organized and managed Russian chapter of MIT Enterprise Forum, international organization, dedicated to promotion of enterpreneurship.
Minerva Capital Partners, Founder & Managing Partner	2009 - present
Investment and Consulting for seed stage startups. Venture Partner of Russian Venture Company.
Webiki, Foudner and President	2008 - present
Webiki (www.webiki.ru) is a Russian based virtual world and social network for kids. Conceived the idea, created business plan, found investment for the company and hired the team Led strategy, product management and business development
Abrys Consulting, COO	June 2007 - present
Abrys Consulting is a provider of Enterprise Assets Management System (EAM) for Russian Market. Responsible for Operations as well Business Development of the company.
Vivox / Libretel / Free World Dialup, Framingham, MA; Director, Engineering and Operations	Apr 2004- June 2006
Vivox (www.vivox.com) is a Voice over IP service provider, which runs the largest open network service for person-to-person, advanced, real-time IP communications (more than 500K users). Vivox also provides embedded communication solutions for multiplayer online games (MMOG) as well other online communities. Led design, development and operations of the complex Linux based network of different VoIP components like SIP servers, Voicemail and Announcement systems and others (SIP protocols, SER, asterisk). Responsible for design, development and operation of Libretel (www.libretel.com) eCommerce Web site which provides such telecommunication services as virtual phone numbers and conferencing services around the world.
VShake, Co-Founder and CTO	Nov 2004 - present
Next generation Business Social Networking site. Innovative concept which will take social networking to the next level by solving problems existing in this field today. Created together with another co-founder the concept, incorporated the company, applied for a patent (patent pending) as well as led all technical aspects of developing the site (including managing the offshore development team in Russia).The beta site (www.vshake.com) is up and running.
Mintz and Co. Newton, MA, USA; CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and founder	June 2002 - June 2003
Mintz and Co, developed new type of financial securities. Responsible for the overall technical management of the company which included complex financial system with an exchange system for the special securities and online brokerage site which allowed users to purchase these securities. The whole system was built in less than 10 months with a fraction of usual cost for such a development.
Compugen Inc, Newton, MA / Jamesburg, NJ, USA / Israel (NASDAQ: CGEN)	Jan 1993 - June 2002
Compugen Inc, a leading provider of bioinformatics software and hardware solutions, supplied bioinformatics systems for gene searching to a most major pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Director of Software projects
Software development manager, Sr. Programmer (for the portion of this time)
Successful turnaround of the company's IT department. In less than 10 months from a pretty dysfunctional organization created a great, performance driven team which by account of other top managers in the company performed above and beyond their expectations. Led multi-million dollar project for US Patent Office. Responsibility included managing all technical aspects of the project through all the stages (from RFP through successful evaluation, rollout and production mode). Project led to an ongoing $2M-$3M a year relationship with USPTO. Significantly improved the service levels, computers' and networks' robustness, and systems' security. Created teams driven organization, which is very well motivated and suited for the tasks it needs to perform. Successfully changed the IT's work from just a problem troubleshooting mode to the much more efficient work which includes problems prevention, strategic planning and active participation in R&D projects. Build and mentored the management team for IT organization. Led Compugen's IT (including all company offices worldwide), including planning, developing, managing and budgeting Information Systems companywide (responsibility over $2M+ yearly budget). Managing and maintaining a strong technical team (20+ people) - including recruitment, motivating, training, retention and career development of worldwide IT team. Part of this period was responsible for the whole US branch of the company. Information security in the company. Responsibilities included designing and implementation of security policies, purchase decisions and implementation of security products, penetration testing and overseeing the applications security. Led development and operation of various Web, E-commerce and complex algorithms projects which included distributed development, support and later operation of multiple production high volume Web sites. Full life cycle of the projects from RFP and requirements to rollout, maintenance and support. Managed geographically distributed team of 20-30 software developers who were specialized over different fields (web, databases and algorithm developers). Off-shore outsourcing of the software development.
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
GGA Software	June 2004 - present
Overseeing software development practices at offshore outsourcing firm specializing in software programming, algorithm development, primarily in the life sciences; directing software projects on a company-wide basis. Advised the company managers on software development methodologies and tools (CMM, rapid development methodologies).
Fidelity Investment, Fidelity Capital Markets	Oct 2003 - Apr 2004
Consulting on a FIX gateway project at Fidelity Capital Markets. Design and development of the ‘smart’, rules based gateway for FIX protocols which allowed routing of the FIX messages between different clients and marketplaces. High throughput system developed is used by Fidelity Capital market to automatically route any incoming order to appropriate security exchange according to the complicated rule-based system.
MobiWiFi
Pre-Startup project. Creation of the product which uses the combination of WiFi and 3G cellular data network technologies to provide the Internet connectivity on the go (cars, trains). Project won a second place in Boston University 30K Business plan competition.
Management consulting project in Moscow, Russia	June 2003 - Sep 2003
Participated in company restructuring project for the biggest publishing company in Russia. Was part of the small team, which was hired by the owners of the company to create a restructuring plan for the company.
EDUCATION
MIT, Sloan School of Management	2006-2007 (expected)
Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership (MBA)	Cambridge, MA
Concentration in: Entrepreneurship, Finance, Venture Capital, technology and innovation management, global international business.
Ben-Gurion University of Negev	1991-1993
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Cum Laude	Beer-Sheva, Israel
Politechnical University	1986-1990
Completed three years of B.Sc. in Computer Science program	St. Petersburg, Russia
SKILLS
MANAGEMENT SKILLS:
Proven record as a manager in both project and people management on any level from a team leader to an executive. IT and software development management, customer support and operation management. System Design and Development. Experience with the full life cycle of the product development from the requirements gathering through design, development, QA to the rollout, operation, customer integration and support. Project and people management, Budgeting, Risk management, Team Building, Hiring. Extensive experience in managing people in remote international locations as well as managing an offshore outsourcing. Extensive startup and innovation experience across wide range of industries such as biotech, finance and telecommunication. Extensive experience working in Israel, USA and Russia as well as doing business internationally Excellent problem solver, quick learner.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Most modern Software languages (C, Java, C#, C++, Perl, HTML, XML, JavaScript etc.) Open Source strategy and implementation Databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sybase) Web technologies (PHP, J2EE, CGI etc.) Security technologies (Intrusion Detection Systems, Firewalls,VPNs, security policies, penetration testing, encryption, PKI, application security. Software development methodologies (CMM, lightweight methodologies) Internet protocols, VoIP (e.g. SIP), Financial protocols (FIX) VOIP technologies (SIP, SER server, Asterisk PBX) Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, Unix flavors)
MISC: Private Pilot
LANGUAGES: English, Russian, Hebrew