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Russian entrepreneur, businessman and executive manager (born 1973) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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 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]
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]
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