Nikolay Popykhin was born on May 20, 1975 in Tomsk. Graduated from the Tomsk institute of automated control systems and radio electronics in "Industrial electronics". In 1996-2001 worked at different positions in city telephone company "Tomsktelekom" (Tomsk). Being the head of department of a data network of Tomsktelekom participated in the project for development of a multi-service telecommunication network of the Kemerovo region on the basis of technologies Cisco, Nortel, RAD, Nateks, Siemens. In 2001 it is appointed the leading specialist, and in 2002 held a position of the technical director of "Regional digital telecommunication company" (Novokuznetsk).
Since 2005 headed regional office of Microtest company (Novosibirsk). Under its management the branch created from scratch at the end of 2009 worked with 156 organizations, and consolidated revenues of regional office were over 230 million rubles (excluding VAT).