Grishanova Irina

Grishanova Irina

Biography

Irina Grishanova was born on April 29, 1971 in Novosibirsk.

In 1993 graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2004 finished the Global Executive MBA program of business school of Fuqua of Duke University (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University).

Since 1991 worked as the translator in Committee on the antimonopoly policy of the Russian Federation.

In 1993 passed into the Business-Svyaz scientific and production enterprise where held a position of the marketing manager.

From 1994 to 2000 worked as the CEO and the board member of DirectNet Telecommunications company in Russia.

In 2000 held a position of the associate director of Enifkom company.

In 2001 it is translated by the deputy CEO for commerce of "EEC of the Telecom" - the company which was responsible for commercialization of telecommunication networks and services of RAO UES of Russia.

From 2002 to 2004 held a post of the CEO of JSC NPP BSH.

From July, 2004 to 2007 worked as the CEO of the American telecom operator of Prioritel, LLC.

In 2007 it is appointed the sales director of Synterra Ltd, then – the commercial director. After sale of Sinterra to MegaFon passed into the joint structure, then – into MegaLabs.

In 2012 left MegaLabs company from a position of the director of cloud services and IT during restructuring after appointment as the head of MegaFon of Ivan Tavrin.

Since fall of 2012 Irina Grishanova is the director of mass services and products of Service division of I-Teco, is responsible for development and promotion of i-Oblako, IaaS and other services and products demanded in the market of small and medium business.

"In Russia for 2012 growth of interest in cloud services became obvious. At the same time, unlike foreign markets, in Russia the main consumers of "cloud" services are large corporations, but not the companies of a segment of SMB today. As supplier of "cloud" services I see our task in that, making use of experience of I-Teco on work with big customers to offer users – the companies of medium and small business the most effective solutions for a broad spectrum of business challenges combining technological effectiveness, convenience and optimal cost", - Irina Grishanova notes.

Gain of the direction of cloud services for a SMB segment corresponds to the strategy of I-Teco – to offer the most full range of services in the field of virtualization, "cloud" calculations, IaaS and SaaS services for the companies of any industry and any scale. As analysts note, the SMB segment can act as the driver of promoting of "clouds" as the question of economy of costs for IT infrastructure for small and medium business is particularly acute more, than for the large companies. "Than demand for solutions in the field of SaaS, IaaS and cloud services is more, especially it is obvious to us that customer needs in enterprise and SMB segments different. Therefore we made the decision to diversify these directions and to fill up our command with the employees having experience and authority on these areas. It is sure that the extensive experience of work of Irina Grishanova in the market of services and solutions for corporate clients will be most demanded in new sphere of activity", - the director of Service division of I-Teco Evgeny Shchepilov commented on appointment.

For November 17, 2014 Irina Grishanova works as the development director of mass services and products of Servionica company.