Sergey Aslanyan (entrepreneur)
Sergey Aslanyan | |
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| Born | Sergey Gareginovich Aslanyan 18 September 1973 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (1996) |
| Occupation(s) | Chairman, MaximaTelecom |
Sergey Aslanyan (Russian: Сергей Гарегинович Асланян; born September 18, 1973, in Yerevan, USSR) is a Russian businessman and executive manager. He is the founder and Chairman of the Board at MaximaTelecom.
Biography[edit]
Sergey Aslanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1996, Aslanyan received a degree in Applied Mathematics.
Aslanyan started his career in 1997 as a senior consultant at the auditing company Coopers & Lybrand, which soon merged with Price Waterhouse and was titled PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2001, he joined TNK-BP Management as deputy head of the information technology unit.
In December 2003, Aslanyan was invited to join Mobile TeleSystems as Vice President of Information Technology – this position was created specially for him.[1][2] In July 2006, he was appointed as Vice President of Engineering and Information Technology. He supervised the transition of the telecommunications operator to a new billing system, the implementation of Oracle ERP system and workflow automation system, and he was responsible for integrating companies acquired by MTS network.[3]
In October 2007 Aslanyan became president of the Sitronics group, which belonged to investment holding JSFC Sistema just as Mobile TeleSystems.[4][5][6] Aslanyan presented a new strategy of the group company development, aimed at reducing non-profitable areas (e.g. consumer electronics), funding priority scientific developments of the state (e.g., microelectronics) and manufacture optimization.[3][7] From 2007 to 2012 Aslanyan was a minority shareholder of Sitronics with a share of 0.687% (up to 2010 – 0.25%). In January 2013, he left the company.[8][9]
In January 2013, together with a group of private investors Aslanyan acquired the company MaximaTelecom which was owned by the JSFC Sistema's systems integrator NVision Group [ru] and became the head of its board of directors. In July 2013 MaximaTelecom took part in the auction of the Moscow Metro for the right of creating and operating Wi-Fi network in the subway trains and signed a contract as the only bidder. Investments in the project amounted to more than 2 billion rubles.[10] Since 1 December 2014, Free Wi-Fi has been available on all subway lines.[11]
Awards and recognition[edit]
Aslanyan twice won the IT leader awards in 2004 and 2006 in the categories telecommunication companies and mobile operators, respectively.[12][13] He is a winner of Aristos award, which was established by Russian Association of Managers and the publishing house Kommersant in the category IT-director (2006).[14] In 2009, his name was included in the biographical reference book Armenian Business Elite of Russia, published by the scientific and educational foundation Erevank.[15] In May 2011, Aslanyan was noted among the best IT managers of the Russian Internet by the internet periodical CNews.[16] In 2011, he received the highest index of personal reputation among top managers of telecommunication companies in the ranking developed by TASS-Telecom.[17] In September 2012 the newspaper Kommersant put Aslanyan in top-10 list of the best managers in the field of information technology in the XIII annual ranking of Russian top managers.[18]
Personal life[edit]
Sergey Aslanyan enjoys playing tennis and squash.[19]
References[edit]
- ^ "Бывший замруководителя блока информационных технологий ТНК-ВР Сергей Асланян назначен вице-президентом по IT компании МТС" (in Russian). Sostav.ru. 2003-12-22. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ "Сергей Асланян возглавил ОАО "Ситроникс"". Vzglyad newspaper (in Russian). 2007-10-03. Retrieved 2016-04-16.
- ^ a b Константин Бочарский (April 2008). "Нам нужно пять кварталов, чтобы стать прибыльными" (PDF). Sekret Firmy Technologii Uspešnogo Biznesa. 15 (247). Secretmag.ru Magazine. ISSN 1727-4176.
- ^ Антон Бурсак (2007-10-03). "Слово Асланяну" (in Russian). RBC Information Systems. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ Сергей Скрипников, Елена Рыцарева (2008). "Дойные коровы Сергея Асланяна" (in Russian). Expert magazine. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ Александра Ходонова (2007-10-03). "Вице-президент МТС стал президентом "Ситроникса"". Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ Владислав Мещеряков (2008-04-09). ""Ситроникс" переключился с чайников на нацпроекты" (in Russian). CNews.ru. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ Елизавета Серьгина (2013-07-29). "Сергей Асланян связался с метро". Vedomosti (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-05.
- ^ Светлана Батова (2014-12-05). "Пост из-под земли". Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-03-14.
- ^ "Список лауреатов премии "IT-лидер", 2004 год" (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ "Объявлены лауреаты премии "IT-ЛИДЕР" 2006 года" (in Russian). CNews.ru. 2006-04-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ "Российским менеджерам досталось по заслугам". Kommersant (in Russian). 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ Khachatur Dadayan (2009). Gagik Harutyunyan (ed.). Армянская бизнес-элита России. Биографический справочник. [Armenian business elite of Russia. Biographical reference book.] (PDF). Yerevan: Научно-образовательный фонд «Ереванк». p. 22. ISBN 978-9939-9000-4-9.
- ^ Наталья Лаврентьева (2011-05-26). "Исследование CNews: Где учились лучшие ИТ-менеджеры России" (in Russian). CNews.ru. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ "МТС и "Вымпелком" возглавили рейтинг телекоммуникационных компаний России с лучшей деловой репутацией" (in Russian). Russian News Agency TASS. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ "Рейтинг высших руководителей 2012". Kommersant (in Russian). 2012-09-19. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ Виктор Дятликович (2015-06-08). "Постучишь — не оторвешься: чем объяснить популярность сквоша" (in Russian). RBC Information Systems. Retrieved 2016-02-12.