Personnel changes in the largest Russian IT and media companies in two weeks
The past two weeks (March 7-18) were not oversaturated with personnel changes. Despite the fact that there were few changes in the staff of the largest Russian IT companies and media resources, they attracted public attention.
Someone took a step forward in their professional development. Someone left the post of general director of the company in pursuit of their new ideas. Someone left the company, as he did not have enough time to read books and rest.
And someone was offered to promote "the direction of the company with unlimited resources and full support."
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"Megamind" invites readers to recall these events and make a "commit" of the changes that have occurred.
1. Former Alfa Bank top manager and Microsoft evangelist Peter Didenko have been appointed editor-in-chief of the Lifehacker publication. The main objectives of Didenko will be to increase the audience of the resource and increase the volume of user-generated content. The predecessor of Didenko Vyacheslav Baransky left his post in April 2015.
Now the monthly audience of Lifehacker, according to Google Analytics, exceeds 6 million people. Over the past two years, this figure has doubled annually. The new chief editor expects, at a minimum, to maintain the same growth rate.
2. Alexey Romanenkov appointed Managing Director of CityAds Media . According to the company, Romanenkov will focus on the development of its Russian operations. In late October 2015, he left the post of director of the company Price.ru / Runner .
CityAds Media is an online advertising operator using the CPA model (Cost Per Action - advertising with pay-for-result advertising). Its customers include Amazon, AliExpress, Booking.com, and others. CityAds Media has offices in Poland, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, China and the United States.
3. Game Insight gaming company evangelist Oleg Pridyuk went to work at King’s Swedish studio owned by Activision Blizzard Corporation. He reported about it on the page on Facebook.
In the game studio, King Prydyuk will also take the position of an evangelist. In King, he was offered "to promote the industrial direction of the company with unlimited resources and full support."
4. The head of the LinguaLeo language service Dmitry Stavisky left the post of the company's general director, he said in his Facebook account. Stavysky’s responsibilities will be assumed by Irina Shashkina, Managing Director for Russia and the CIS.
Stavisky will keep a post on the board of directors of the company. LinguaLeo hired Evernote ex-president for international development Dmitry Stavisky in February 2014, initially he was the operations director, since summer 2014 - the CEO. Shashkina came to LinguaLeo in July 2014 from Rambler & Co.
5. Albert Usmanov , head of B2B marketing at VKontakte, leaves the company:
If the US court supports the FBI in conflict with Apple and obliges the company to help the agency unlock the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone, some Apple employees will go on strike, and some do not rule out leaving the company, The New York Times (NYT) reports .
They explained their intentions to quit their desire to preserve the safety of the products they created.
Former executive director of the corporation Jean-Louis Gasse told the publication that Apple still reigns a culture of independence and rebellion, created by its founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
“If the government wants to force engineers to testify or something else - good luck with that,” Gasse said.
Someone took a step forward in their professional development. Someone left the post of general director of the company in pursuit of their new ideas. Someone left the company, as he did not have enough time to read books and rest.
And someone was offered to promote "the direction of the company with unlimited resources and full support."
')
"Megamind" invites readers to recall these events and make a "commit" of the changes that have occurred.
1. Former Alfa Bank top manager and Microsoft evangelist Peter Didenko have been appointed editor-in-chief of the Lifehacker publication. The main objectives of Didenko will be to increase the audience of the resource and increase the volume of user-generated content. The predecessor of Didenko Vyacheslav Baransky left his post in April 2015.
Now the monthly audience of Lifehacker, according to Google Analytics, exceeds 6 million people. Over the past two years, this figure has doubled annually. The new chief editor expects, at a minimum, to maintain the same growth rate.
2. Alexey Romanenkov appointed Managing Director of CityAds Media . According to the company, Romanenkov will focus on the development of its Russian operations. In late October 2015, he left the post of director of the company Price.ru / Runner .
CityAds Media is an online advertising operator using the CPA model (Cost Per Action - advertising with pay-for-result advertising). Its customers include Amazon, AliExpress, Booking.com, and others. CityAds Media has offices in Poland, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, China and the United States.
3. Game Insight gaming company evangelist Oleg Pridyuk went to work at King’s Swedish studio owned by Activision Blizzard Corporation. He reported about it on the page on Facebook.
In the game studio, King Prydyuk will also take the position of an evangelist. In King, he was offered "to promote the industrial direction of the company with unlimited resources and full support."
4. The head of the LinguaLeo language service Dmitry Stavisky left the post of the company's general director, he said in his Facebook account. Stavysky’s responsibilities will be assumed by Irina Shashkina, Managing Director for Russia and the CIS.
Stavisky will keep a post on the board of directors of the company. LinguaLeo hired Evernote ex-president for international development Dmitry Stavisky in February 2014, initially he was the operations director, since summer 2014 - the CEO. Shashkina came to LinguaLeo in July 2014 from Rambler & Co.
5. Albert Usmanov , head of B2B marketing at VKontakte, leaves the company:
“My departure was not impulsive. I need to move on: for a start, I plan to have a good rest, finish reading Oliver Sachs and start working in a new place. ”According to theRunet interlocutors, Usmanov went into submission to his old boss and colleague at RIA Novosti - Svetlana Mironyuk. Mironyuk was the chief editor of the news agency until the end of 2013.
And for dessert - news from abroad
If the US court supports the FBI in conflict with Apple and obliges the company to help the agency unlock the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone, some Apple employees will go on strike, and some do not rule out leaving the company, The New York Times (NYT) reports .
They explained their intentions to quit their desire to preserve the safety of the products they created.
Former executive director of the corporation Jean-Louis Gasse told the publication that Apple still reigns a culture of independence and rebellion, created by its founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
“If the government wants to force engineers to testify or something else - good luck with that,” Gasse said.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/299480/
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