ABBYY CEO Sergey Andreev answers questions from Habr's readers about the company's participation in the Skolkovo project

At the end of 2010, ABBYY’s project to develop a new text translation and textual analysis technology was one of the first Skolkovo residents. Subsequently, the Skolkovo Foundation found it possible to support this project with grant funding in the amount of 474,996 thousand rubles.

We have long been developing this project and did not want to make it public until the release of finished products. However, the arrival of this project in Skolkovo obviously requires an understandable story about the history of the project, its current status and prospects. We want to tell a lot of interesting things about what ABBYY has been doing for the last 10 years behind the scenes and what kind of interaction with the Skolkovo project we are planning.

We want to provide you with the opportunity to get first-hand information - ask questions to the CEO of ABBYY, Sergey Andreev. Under the cut of his brief professional biography. You can ask your questions to Sergey (and not only about Skolkovo) in the comments, Sergey will answer them in the next post.
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Update: Thank you all for your questions! The topic with Sergey's answers will appear next week.



Sergey Andreev

CEO, President of the ABBYY group of companies.
Winner of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.

Born September 12, 1969 in Krasnoyarsk. In 1992 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Faculty of General and Applied Physics. While studying at the last MIPT courses, Sergey Andreev joined Bit Software (ABBYY since 1997) as commercial director. In 1996, he was appointed executive director, and in 1999, general director of the ABBYY group of companies.

Under the leadership of Sergey Andreev, innovative software products ABBYY have been developed, the distribution network of the company in Russia and abroad has been built, international offices have been opened in Europe, the USA and Asian countries, and a technology licensing system has been developed for third-party developers. Since 1999, Sergey has initiated and carried out a number of large-scale structural reorganizations reflecting the company's organic growth.

In 2007, Sergei initiated the creation of the ABBYY "Image Recognition and Text Processing" department at MIPT. Every year dozens of students get the opportunity to study in Russia at the highest level programming and creation of technologies in the field of artificial intelligence. The best of them become ABBYY scholarship holders, and after graduation from the university - employees of the company.

Sergey Andreev is a recognized expert and one of the most influential managers of the IT market, a participant of TopProfi ratings “100 Most Influential Personalities of the Computer Business”, “Top 1000 Russian Managers” of the Russian Managers Association and the Kommersant newspaper. Fluent in English.

Married, has 2 children.

Takes an active position in life, enjoys sports (table tennis, swimming, scuba diving, windsurfing, alpine skiing).