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Anatoly Mikhaylovich Karachinsky is the founder of IBS Group Holding. One of the outstanding figures in the Russian IT industry in the 1992-2010s.
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By mid-April 2020, the fortune of Anatoly Karachinsky is estimated by Forbes at $750 million. Read more here.
Biography
Anatoly Karachinsky was born on July 12, 1959 in Moscow.
He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in systems engineering.
From 1981 to 1986 worked at the Computing Center at the All-Union Research Institute of Railway Transport.
From 1986 to 1988 worked as director of the Russian branch of the Austrian company Prosystem (computer equipment).
Since 1988 - Technical Director of the Intermicro joint venture.
1992: Foundation of IBS
In 1992 , Anatoly left Intermicro and, together with Sergei Matsotsky, decided to do the business "as you want, and as it is right." In exchange for a promise not to become a direct competitor (that is, not to sell office equipment), the novice entrepreneur received a kind of "compensation" from former employers - the opportunity to independently implement the project received at Intermicro.
1992-1997 - President of IBS.
Since 1997 , Karachinsky has been president of IBS Group Holding.
In the late 1990s, IBS approached the Yukos oil company. In 1998, IBS won the Yukos tender for maintenance and maintenance of the entire IT infrastructure of the oil holding. Already in 2000, the entire infrastructure complex of the Moscow segment of the Yukos corporate network (more than 1,500 users) was served by IBS specialists. The corporate network was also managed in 24 regions of the Russian Federation (about 7,000 users) and about 200 customer's gas stations were supported.
This project was completed in 2001 by the agreed procedure for withdrawing from outsourcing and the transfer to Yukos of the completed infrastructure for supporting information systems for further independent operation.
Meanwhile, IBS-Yukos cooperation has been rocked by conflicts at the personnel level. Sergey Shashurin, in 1997-99. who worked as director of the department for work with enterprises in the oil and gas industry at IBS, in December 2000 moved to the post of first vice president of the subsidiary system integrator of Yukos - Sibintek (in early 2003 he became president of Sibintek, where he worked until 2008). At the same time, Ilya Ponomarev, who worked as the Chief information officer of Yukos and created Sibintek, together with the team of the venture capital firm Arrava owned by Sibintek, moved to IBS in January 2002, where he took the post of vice president for strategic projects. Ponomarev worked at IBS for about 1.5 years, after which he took up politics and became a State Duma deputy.
In addition, as the Kommersant newspaper wrote in 2002, Sibintek began to experience difficulties in implementing a number of projects, because the general director of the Sibintek subsidiary Imeco, Marat Yarullin, took up business development at IBS as a freelance employee.
Karachinsky is known for the fact that in 2001 he became the organizer of the first meeting of Russian IT businessmen with the president. Russia Vladimir Putin It was said that in the early 2000s, Karachinsky claimed the post of minister, information technology but lost in the hardware struggle. Leonid Reiman
As the magazine "Svoy Business" (June, 2007) notes , Karachinsky gives the impression of a rather modest person for his position. Anatoly Mikhailovich was considered the main lobbyist of the Russian IT industry (The Firm's Secret, 2006 ).
At this time, the founder of the IBS group Anatoly Karachinsky prefers to spend his free time in the society of famous businessmen, politicians, athletes and musicians (see the selection of photographs). However, not all businessmen with whom Karachinsky meets "without a tie" become reliable partners of IBS.
Regarding the informatization of the United Confectioners holding (with its head Artem Kuznetsov, Anatoly Karachinsky plays golf and swims on a yacht), two large projects are known - the introduction of an ERP system and an EDMS. The IBS did not take part in any of them. The integrator in the first project was BDO Unicon, in the second - Digital Design.
Several information systems were introduced in the Pronto-Moscow holding (its head Leonid Makaron was also seen in Karachinsky's society at the sailing regatta). The implementation of BI, BPM, CPM projects was carried out by the integrator Columbus IT. The implementation of the Axapta ERP system in 2004 was carried out by IBS, but when migrating to a newer version in 2009, Pronto-Moscow decided to use the services of Norbit (part of Lanit).
In the late 2000s IBS , the main priorities are maintaining the achieved level of the group (current training of employees, updating technical means), deepening strategic areas of IT, new developments, and creating a branch network. Karachinsky was sure that by about 2026 the company IBS would become much larger in size, that it would employ 60-80 thousand people.
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Anatoly Karachinsky, being the only representative of the IT industry, was also a member of the government commission on high technologies, but was excluded from its composition. It happened in 2010, after Vladimir Putin personally headed the commission instead of Sergei Ivanov.
In 2012, Anatoly Karachinsky became the only representative of the IT-Business became a member of the working group on the preparation of proposals for the formation of the Open Government system in the Russian Federation.
Since the beginning of the 2010s, leaves the public field.
2019: $2 billion Luxoft sale
On January 7, 2019, US IT services provider DXC Technology announced the acquisition for $2 billion of Luxoft Holding, a subsidiary of IBS Group Holding. According to the terms of the deal, the main owners of Luxoft Anatoly Karachinsky and Sergey Matsotsky receive $655 million for their share. More on the deal here.
2022
US sanctions
On April 20, 2022 Ministry of Finance USA , he included the owner of the Group of Companies IBS Anatoly Karachinsky in the sanctions list. The list refers to him as a person associated with Otkritie Bank[1]Karachinsky in July 2021 joined the supervisory board of this bank. At the time of its inclusion American in the sanctions list, there is no information on the current composition of the supervisory board on the organization's website.
Otkritie Bank, along with a number of other Russian financial organizations, fell under US sanctions on February 24, 2022, the day Russia's special operation in Ukraine began.
Karachinsky is on the list of persons under blocking sanctions (SDN). This is a list of individuals and entities whose assets and property, if located in the United States or in the possession of an American person, are considered blocked. No person in the United States, whether natural or legal, has the right to enter into any transactions with a person on the SDN list.
The IBS owner was one of 29 individuals from Russia who were sanctioned on April 20. Among them are the First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Ksenia Yudaeva, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Mikhail Alekseev and Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Kolychev. Also, the new list includes 40 legal entities.
Departure from IBS Board of Directors
On May 11, 2022, it became known that Anatoly Karachinsky left the board of directors of the IBS IT group, co-founded by a businessman. This happened against the background of the entrepreneur getting into the American sanctions list.
According to Interfax, citing the IBS press service, Anatoly Karachinsky's resignation from the company's board of directors "will not affect the operating activities and further development of the company." At the same time, the group did not name the reasons why the co-founder left the board of directors. He was also left by the ex-financial director of the company Yulia Yukhadi.
The IBS spokesman clarified that by May 11, 2022, there are five directors on the board. These are four IBS managers: Grigory Kocharov, Lev Drozdov, Leonid Zabezhinsky and Georgy Polikhronidi, as well as Alexey Krivoshapko from Prosperity Group.
Since April 2022, Anatoly Karachinsky has been included in the SDN (Specially Designated Nationals List), which is maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Managing partner of EBRAlexander Zhuravlev, in a conversation with Kommersant, suggested that the businessman will probably have to transfer his stake and leave the management bodies so that the company can function normally and continue to work with foreign technological partners, clients and banks. The source of the publication in the information security market believes that for IBS sanctions are critical both in terms of the supply of equipment, for example, for information security, and in terms of working with partners abroad.
| | The risks are high. Anatoly Karachinsky can transfer his share, but not the fact that now it will help, - said the interlocutor. | |
The source of the publication in the Government of the Russian Federation suggests that Anatoly Karachinsky will formally sell his stake in IBS, noting that "in the current conditions, this is already a tested mechanism."[2]
Anatoly Karachinsky ceased to be the owner of IBS
From June 1, 2022, Anatoly Karachinsky ceased to be the owner of 75% of the IBS holding. Its share was distributed among three top managers: 33.3% each for Leonid Zabezhinsky and Lev Drozdov, 8.4% for Grigory Kocharov.
Joining the list of the largest IT billionaires in Russia
In August 2022, TAdviser compiled the first list of the largest IT billionaires in Russia. Anatoly Karachinsky took ninth place in it (more).
Quotes and interviews
About entrepreneurship
According to Karachinsky, a businessman must constantly come up with something and be prone to risk "An entrepreneur is generally, in my opinion, a very dangerous profession, since he has to risk more often than others. An entrepreneur must necessarily be a creative thinking person. At the same time, he can be a bad manager. So, for example, I consider myself, first of all, an entrepreneur and, to a lesser extent, a big manager "(" The Secret of the Company, "2006 ).
I am convinced that the leadership position most often implies not a decrease in work, but an increase in it. "The leadership position implies a high level of commitment to a significantly larger range of issues. And those commitments are some of the best incentives to work. "
About plans to create a national OS "'(July 2010)
I would start with the question: can someone create an OS in Russia? Usually around the world, states work with those companies that have proven their success in the market. I do not know a single Russian company that has demonstrated impressive success in the Russian or foreign market. When I talk about success, I mean that she sold and then supported at least 100,000 users on the open market. This is the first thing that is not clear to me about this project.
Secondly, any such investment must be economically calculated. But so far I have not seen any feasibility study of the project that would take into account the costs of switching to a new system. The amount of costs depends on the amount of money that needs to be spent on creating a new OS, building distribution and training channels, and a support system. A lot of money also needs to be invested in the adaptation of application software, as well as in the adaptation of a number of existing systems operating with customers (in particular with the state). In the absence of a feasibility study, these plans resemble the ideas of transferring northern rivers to the south, or ideas about oil production at the North Pole.
Thirdly, it seems to me that the development of any traditional OS is simply not relevant now. We are on the cusp of huge technological change in the world. In two years, the concept of the OS will fundamentally change, as the computer devices themselves will change, which we will use. The whole world will switch to other principles of information processing, other technological platforms. This will happen quite quickly, within 2-3 years. The emergence of clouds, rapid migration to new principles of mobility, fundamental changes in telecom. The dying of a heavy "client," which personified the OS, the migration of applications and most services to the "cloud." All this suggests that the world is going one way - forward, and we are looking back.
Therefore, taking into account all these comments, it seems to me that the issue requires a deeper and more professional approach.
Anatoly Karachinsky: "Existing business models must die. It will be an impressive sight, "September 2010
Family
Married, has two sons. Quote: I like computers terribly, I have 6 computers at home for the whole family.
Hobby
Golf, skiing, sport yacht travel, tourism, literature. I like songs with a guitar. He is the president of the PIRogovo yacht club.
Supports the bard movement.
Other activities
In collaboration with S. M. Zakharov, he wrote the book "Personal Computers" (1986 ).
He is the owner of the venture capital fund Oradell Capital, which invests in companies in the following areas: electronic media, wireless networks, Web 2.0.
He took part in the creation of the International Children's Computer Club, was a member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), where he was engaged in education reform.
| | "This is something someone should do on the business side. A unique education system was built in our country under the Soviet regime, and it cannot be lost, since this is the future of our country, "Karachinsky said. | |
Anatoly Karachinsky is a member of the International Computer Club. He is a member of the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation, a member of the expert council on e-education under the Committee on Education and Science of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Awards
Karachinsky has been named one of the most respected personalities in the computer business ten times Russia (ratings "Dator Top100" from 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 and "Top-Profi" from 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999).
According to the results of the annual Top-Profi "2000 survey, he was recognized as the person who showed the greatest activity in the development of the Russian computer market.
In December 1993, Anatoly Mikhailovich received the EU European Market Research Center "Euromarket Award," annually awarded for advances in technology, trade and production that contributed to the development of the European market. Karachinsky was named as one of the three most influential individuals in shaping the Russian computer world.
In 1994, Karachinsky was awarded the Quality Management Award, a European award celebrating the best managers in Europe.
In 2002, he became the first Russian businessman included in the list of "Stars of Europe" of Business Week magazine, he was recognized as one of the fifty leaders at the forefront of positive changes in Europe. In his interview with Business Week, Anatoly Karachinsky defined his goal as "creating a powerful information technology industry in Russia that would be competitive in the global market."
Included in the "iTop-100 of the Russian IT industry," (2002, 2003, iOne project).
According to the rating of the Association of Russian Managers, it is in the top 40 of the rating "1000 most professional managers in Russia."
In November 2003, Anatoly Karachinsky was the first Russian businessman to win the Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 - Russia competition, established by Ernst & Young and held in 35 countries of the world, in 2004 he represented Russia at the international competition in Monaco.
Links
- Biography on the IBS website
- Anatoly Karachinsky became one of the fifty "STARS OF EUROPE"
- Guide of the Future
- Interview: Anatoly Karachinsky, President of IBS
- Biography on the site Биография.ру
- A biography on the Rambler website
- Online interview
Notes
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