Advertising ARKADYVOLOZH| YANDEX Co-Founder & CEO SPEAKER BIO Arkady Volozh is the principal founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He has been the company’s CEO and a director since 2000. Arkady founded Yandex in 1997; in 2000, he left his position of CEO at CompTek International to become the CEO of Yandex. Volozh is a serial entrepreneur with a background in computer science. He studied applied mathematics at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, graduating in 1986. KEY CORPORATE FACTS& KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters Moscow, Russia Yandex is a Russian company that offers an internet search engine and search solutions to a worldwide customerbase. Office Locations Europe Founded 1997 The company’s search engine uses its algorithms to provide relevant results in an editorially- neutral and user-friendly manner. It offers a range of specialized search, personalized, and Active Markets Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey location-based services, including Yandex.News, Yandex.Market, Yandex.Mail, and Yandex.Maps. No of Employees 5,600 Business overview Internet search engine and search solutions Yandex offers Yandex News, a news aggregation and information service; Yandex Search, a websearch engine; Yandex.Mail which provides fast access to email accounts featuring social Key Financials Revenues $902m (2014) authentication via their accounts on VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Google, Mail.ru, or Twitter; Yandex.Maps which provides detailed maps of more than 1,100 cities and towns in Website yandex.com Russia and more than 220 cities in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus as well as a detailed map of Turkey; Yandex.Browser, a cloud-based browser; and Yandex.Disk, a cloud-based storage service that facilitates users to upload, store, and share files. In addition, Yandex offers online translators, mobile applications, advertising solutions, and more. YandexwasfoundedonSeptember23,1997andisbasedinMoscow, Russia. 94