Telkov Aleksei Valentinovich

Telkov Aleksei Valentinovich

Biography

Alexey Telkov was born in 1981.

Education

He graduated in 2004 from Moscow State Technical University. N.E. Bauman with a degree in Radio Electronic Systems. He has an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics and is fluent in English.

Career

2002-2006

In the period from 2002 to 2006 worked at VimpelCom as an engineer, group leader and department head. In 2006, he moved to Tele2 Russia as a manager of technical projects, in 2011 he was appointed director of technical operations.

2014-2015

On January 14, 2014, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation announced the appointment of Alexei Telkov to the post of Director of the Department of Infrastructure Projects. Alexey Telkov's main responsibilities included the development of infrastructure projects in the telecommunications industry.

In February 2015, Telkov left the ministry and returned to the ranks of the mobile operator Tele2 Russia.

2020

In July 2020, sources close to the Ministry of Digital Development told RBC that Alexei Telkov, at that time the technical director of Tele2 in Russia, could be appointed to the post of deputy minister of communications (to the team of Maksut Shadayev), where he will oversee the telecommunications industry.

It was assumed that Telkov could take the place of Oleg Ivanov, who was supposed to leave the Ministry of Communications. Two more interlocutors of RBC claimed that Ivanov would remain in the ministry, but powers would be redistributed between the deputy ministers. In particular, the direction of information security, which was supervised by Aleksei Sokolov, who left the ministry at the end of spring 2020, could go to Ivanov. To appoint another deputy minister, preserving all existing ones, the Ministry of Communications needed to approve changes to its own staffing table: at that time, the head of the ministry could have eight deputies, and these positions were taken.

As a result, Telkov's appointment to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications did not take place.

2023

Appointment as Tele2 CEO

On March 21, 2023, it became known about the appointment of Alexei Telkov as the new general director of T2 RTK Holding (provides services under the Tele2 brand, 100% owned by Rostelecom) instead of Andrei Patoka, who headed the Russian telecom operator since 2021.

Before heading Tele2 in Russia, Telkov worked for the company as deputy for technical infrastructure and information technology.

Tele2 CEO Alexey Telkov

I express my gratitude to Andrei Patoka, who gave Tele2 for many years and made a huge personal contribution to its dynamic development, - wrote Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky in a letter to employees (quoted by Forbes).

The reason for the change of the head of Tele2 in Russia has not been disclosed. As RBC wrote with reference to a source in the telecommunications market, Patoka is seriously ill and has not actually participated in the management of T2 RTK Holding for the past few months. A representative of the operator declined to comment on this information to the publication.

As the Mobile-Review Telegram channel wrote with reference to Tele2's internal letter announcing the new appointments, the company will create a single B2C cluster with a single management structure. It will include the B2C segment of Rostelecom, including digital product offices, the entire Tele2 group of companies, unified marketing, the Wink video service, separated into a separate legal entity, the MTT MC company and the group's regional B2C assets. The combined V2S cluster is almost 60% of the group's revenue. Anton Godovikov, senior vice president for work with the mass segment of Rostelecom, has been appointed its head, Mobile-Review noted.

The integration of such a large asset as Tele2 takes more than one year, this is a common practice, said Konstantin Ankilov, managing partner of TMT Consulting. By March 2023, Rostelecom, according to him, is moving to a new phase: the provision of a complex of services based on all available technologies - both fixed and mobile communications.^[1]

Leaving the post of general director of Tele2

September 29, 2023 it became known about the departure of Alexei Telkov from the post of general director of Tele2. His successor was Anton Godovikov.^[2]

2024-2025: Appointment as CEO of ERP vendor Galactica

As TAdviser found out, in December 2024, Alexei Telkov was appointed general director of the oldest Russian developer of ERP systems, Corporation Galaktika JSC, and in March 2025, he was appointed general director of two other legal entities of the same group of companies - Galactica Center and Galactica Pro.

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In Galaktika Corporation, Telkov replaced Vladislav Petrov as general director, Andrei Skorik in Galactica Center, and Anton Malkov in Galactica Pro.

The owners of Galaktika Corporation and Pro Galaxies are hidden, Anton Malkov owns 38% in Galaktika Center, another 38% belong to Andrei Marushkevich. The remaining shares are in the trust of the Galatik Corporation.

The total revenue of the three "Galaxies" for 2023 is 687 million rubles (data for 2024 as of March 28, 2025 have not been published).

The official representative of "Galactica" confirmed to TAdviser the change of the general director, but declined other comments, including whether Anton Malkov retained the position of chairman of the board of directors of "Galactica."

In 2024, Galactica released a new product, Quantum. ERP, which is positioned as a replacement for a foreign one, ON SAP Axapta, Oracle and others. A detailed review of the TAdviser product was published in July 2024.

Among the key clients of Galactica are Transneft, enterprises of Rosatom, Rostec and other state corporations, a number of retail companies, several universities, etc.

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