He has been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years; taking a number of leading positions in large international IT companies. In early 2010, he joined IBM as a director of business development for the hardware department. From mid-2010 to 2014, he led the IBM hardware department in Russia and the CIS. From 2014 to mid-2015 he worked as IBM sales director in Russia. July 1, 2015, took the post of IBM CEO in Russia and the CIS. He graduated from the Radio Engineering Department of the Ural State Technical University with a degree in Automated Systems for Information Processing and Management and received a diploma in Systems Engineering in 1994. He studied under the International Executive Program at the INSEAD Business School in France and Singapore.