Alexander Borodich

Alexander Borodich
Born (1975-07-28) 28 July 1975 (age 48)
NationalityRussian
Occupation(s)Investor, serial entrepreneur, digital media strategist

Alexander Borodich (Russian: Алекса́ндр Борóдич; born July 28, 1975) is a Russian venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and digital media strategist. Borodich is the former marketing director at Mail.ru Group.[1][2] Borodich was recognized as "the business angel of year 2016."[3] Borodich is a private investor, the founder of the Universa blockchain platform, managing partner of the marketing communication agency FutureAction,[4] the founder of FutureLabs, and the VentureClub.ru investor club, a crowd-investment platform. He is the former principal of the Economic School at Moscow State University[5] (2010-2013), and current Chairman of the Scientific Research & Innovative Technologies Commission at the International Aerospace Committee.[6]

Education

In 1999, Borodich graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, and in 2003 he completed his graduate studies.[7]

He holds a master's degree from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Department of Marketing.[8]

In 2008, Borodich received an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.[7]

Career

Alexander Borodich started his career as a project manager and web architect at Intel in 1999. In 2000, he joined ThinkWave as a web developer.[7] In 2002, he held the position of Head of e-commerce at the research and consulting company DirectInfo.[9]

From 2003 to 2005, Borodich was involved in online marketing at MAR Consult, while working on his own project called ViralMeter, a viral marketing tracking service.[10] From 2005 to 2009, he was a Marketing Director at Acronis, USA, where he managed online marketing communication worldwide.[11]

In 2009–2010, Borodich directed online marketing initiatives at Mail.ru Group as a Marketing Director.[12] He negotiated new key partnerships and led media campaigns for Mail.ru.[9] In 2010, Borodich became Director General at Rumart.ru, and later, co-founder and CEO at Glomper.[13][7]

In 2019, Borodich was elected as Chairman of the Commission for Scientific Research and Innovative Technologies of the International Aerospace Committee.[14]

Entrepreneurship

In 2003–2005, while working for different companies, Borodich developed ViralMeter, a service for monitoring viral marketing activity.[7]

In 2012, Borodich co-founded MyWishBoard.com, a service for creating wish lists that can be shared with friends through social networks.[12]

Since 2013, he has been managing partner and lecturer at FutureLabs and FutureAction.[15]

Current activities

Borodich is the founder of Future Labs, a platform focusing on investing in third-party projects and developing their projects through attracting investors' funds.[7]

Borodich is a member of the Administrative Council of the National Association of Business Angels.[13]

He is managing partner at VentureClub, a crowdfunding platform and investors club, and managing partner at the digital marketing agency FutureAction.[15]

Besides his entrepreneurial activities, he is Chairman of the Scientific Research & Innovative Technologies Commission at the International Aerospace Committee.[6]

Teaching activity

In 2003, Borodich started lecturing at Moscow State University. He was appointed the Head of the Economics School there (2003-2013). Currently, Borodich is a teacher at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and a lecturer at Moscow State University. He is a regular speaker at professional conferences in the industry.[5]

Professional recognition

In 2012, Borodich was granted a patent in the USA on assessing the effectiveness of information dissemination in social networks.[16]

The same year, he was one of the winners at the MobileBeat Innovation Competition (San Francisco).[7][17]

In 2015, the Russian Venture Capital (RVC), a government fund of funds and development institute, named Borodich Russia's most active business angel of the year.[18] In 2016, the Russian National Business Angels Association recognized Borodich as Russia's "business angel of the year" at a ceremony at the Skolkovo Hypercube.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Рейтинг российских бизнес-ангелов — 2016". secretmag.ru.
  2. ^ "How Universa Blockchain Is Tokenizing the Islamic Enterprise and Governments". entrepreneur.com. 17 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Alexander Borodich named business angel of the year". sk.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  4. ^ Вовнякова, Анна. "Action Group осваивает digital". Информационно-аналитический портал www.Sostav.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  5. ^ a b "ЭМШ — Итоги Ассамблеи ЭМШ. Итоги выборов Совета и Дирекции ЭМШ". emsch.ru (in Russian). 21 November 2010. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  6. ^ a b "iasc.space: International Aerospace Committee". iasc.space.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g "Кто есть кто: Александр Бородич | Rusbase". Rusbase (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  8. ^ "РЕЙТИНГ РОССИЙСКИХ БИЗНЕС-АНГЕЛОВ, НАТАЛЬЯ РОМАШИНА". www.sserussia.org. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  9. ^ a b "Mail.Ru расставил кадры". www.comnews.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  10. ^ "Кто есть кто: Александр Бородич". 28 July 2014.
  11. ^ "Как заработать на исполнении желаний". www.forbes.ru. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  12. ^ a b "Хотеть не вредно". www.forbes.ru. 2 January 2014. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  13. ^ a b "Alexander Borodich named business angel of the year". sk.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  14. ^ "Universa founder Alexander Borodich elected Chairman of the Commission for IAC". 26 August 2019.
  15. ^ a b "Как определить потенциал бизнеса для инвестирования (онлайн-трансляция мастер-класса Александра Бородича) / События на TimePad.ru". capitalogy.timepad.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  16. ^ US 8190711, Borodich, Alexander, "Method and system for controlling and tracking content distribution", published May 29, 2012 
  17. ^ "Александр Бородич — События Яндекса". events.yandex.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  18. ^ "В 2016 году рынок бизнес-ангельских инвестиций вырос на 30%". www.rvc.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
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