Sergey Aslanyan (entrepreneur)

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
Born
Sergey Gareginovich Aslanyan

(1973-09-18) 18 September 1973
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow State University (1996)
Occupation(s)Chairman, MaximaTelecom

Biography

Sergey Aslanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, graduated from Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1996 Aslanyan he 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 in the position of 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 the integration of 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 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 was available on all subway lines.[11]

Awards and recognition

Aslanyan twice won IT-leader award in 2004 and 2006 in category 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 scientific and educational foundation Erevank.[15] In May 2011 Aslanyan was noted among the best IT-managers of 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

Sergey Aslanyan enjoys playing tennis and squash.[19]

References

  1. "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.
  2. "Сергей Асланян возглавил ОАО "Ситроникс"". Vzglyad newspaper (in Russian). 2007-10-03. Retrieved 2016-04-16.
  3. Константин Бочарский (April 2008). "Нам нужно пять кварталов, чтобы стать прибыльными" (PDF). Sekret Firmy Technologii Uspešnogo Biznesa. Secretmag.ru Magazine. 15 (247). ISSN 1727-4176.
  4. Антон Бурсак (2007-10-03). "Слово Асланяну" (in Russian). RBC Information Systems. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  5. Сергей Скрипников, Елена Рыцарева (2008). "Дойные коровы Сергея Асланяна" (in Russian). Expert magazine. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  6. Александра Ходонова (2007-10-03). "Вице-президент МТС стал президентом "Ситроникса"". Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  7. Владислав Мещеряков (2008-04-09). ""Ситроникс" переключился с чайников на нацпроекты" (in Russian). CNews.ru. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  8. "Члены правления ОАО "Ситроникс" реализовали опцион на покупку 0,34% акций компании" (in Russian). RBC Information Systems. 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  9. "Годовой отчёт Sitronics, 2010 год // Совет директоров" (PDF) (in Russian). RBC Information Systems. 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  10. Елизавета Серьгина (2013-07-29). "Сергей Асланян связался с метро". Vedomosti (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  11. Светлана Батова (2014-12-05). "Пост из-под земли". Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  12. "Список лауреатов премии "IT-лидер", 2004 год" (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  13. "Объявлены лауреаты премии "IT-ЛИДЕР" 2006 года" (in Russian). CNews.ru. 2006-04-24. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  14. "Российским менеджерам досталось по заслугам". Kommersant (in Russian). 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  15. Дадаян 2009, p. 22.
  16. Наталья Лаврентьева (2011-05-26). "Исследование CNews: Где учились лучшие ИТ-менеджеры России" (in Russian). CNews.ru. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  17. "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.
  18. "Рейтинг высших руководителей 2012". Kommersant (in Russian). 2012-09-19. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  19. Виктор Дятликович (2015-06-08). "Постучишь — не оторвешься: чем объяснить популярность сквоша" (in Russian). RBC Information Systems. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
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