Popov Aleksei Yuryevich

Popov Aleksei Yuryevich

Aktivs

At different times, Aleksei Popov to one degree or another took part in the development of such IT companies as:

• BFT (was CEO),
• OTR (the company was the largest contractor in the implementation project Oracle in the Treasury of the Russian Federation),
• CFT,
• BSS (was CEO).

Some market participants are confident that it remains affiliated with at least some of these companies until now.

Biography and career

Born September 4, 1973 in Moscow.

In 1996 he graduated from Moscow State University, in 2006 - from the Moscow Institute of International Business at VAVT of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Since 1996, he has worked in senior positions in the field of information technology in the field of banking and public finance.

He led the IT companies BSS and BFT (the latter later joined the IBS Group), specializing in the informatization of financial institutions.

The appeal of the Aleksei Popov in connection with the transition to the civil service:

"Dear customers, partners, competitors and friends.

After almost 10 years since the Company's inception, I have decided to resign as CEO.

Over these 10 years, the Company has become the leader of the Russian market in both areas of its activity - automation of remote banking services and automation of state (municipal) management bodies. Leadership is confirmed, on the one hand, by various studies of independent sources, the Company's constantly growing turnover (more than 8.5 million US dollars in 2003), the number of clients (more than 900 banks, 12 subjects and 200 municipalities of the Russian Federation), the number of employees (more than 300), the number of branches (10), on the other hand, life itself - obviously respectful attitude and recognition of the Company's merits by respected customers, partners, competitors. An additional confirmation of success was the move to our own comfortable office - a serious achievement for any Company.

I was offered a job in the Government of the Russian Federation - as Deputy Director of the Federal Service of the Federal Treasury. In my new position, I will be responsible for the information and technical development of the Federal Treasury system (89 Departments, more than 2500 branches in the Russian Federation, more than 50,000 employees). These are not pretentious words, but at a certain moment in your development you begin to understand that it is interesting and honorable to benefit only the clients of your Company, albeit the most successful in its field, and to benefit the entire Russian Federation doubly and honorably.

The decision to resign as CEO would never have been taken by me if I doubted for a second that my resignation would continue not only the normal operation of the Company, but also its continuous development. Evgeny Igorevich Yakovlev (formerly Director of the Marketing Department) was appointed the new General Director of Bank's Soft Systems (BSS), and Alexander Dmitrievich Stefanchuk was appointed the new General Director of Budget Financial Technologies (BFT). All other team members remained the same, the new organizational and staff structure of the BSS is given on the website, the structure of the BFT has not changed.

The new leaders guarantee you the full continuity of the course in domestic and foreign policy, the complete preservation of the atmosphere and the team that is our main asset.

I personally was extremely pleased and interesting to work with you. I hope that in my new position I can be useful to you, I will always be glad to any contacts with you.

Sincerely yours, Alexey Popov

Transition to the civil service

He joined the civil service in 2004 as Deputy Director of the Department - Main Directorate of the Federal Treasury of the Ministry of Finance of Russia.

Since January 2005, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Treasury.

February 28, 2011 appointed Director of the Department of Information Technologies and Communications of the Government of the Russian Federation. The key project he oversaw in this position was SMEV - a system of interdepartmental electronic interaction. It was supposed to unite all federal and regional power structures in order to exchange data, and save citizens from the need to provide information to government agencies, if this or that department can receive this information independently from its colleagues.

The federal segment of SMEV was launched in late 2011. Regional segments were supposed to be operational by July 1, 2012 (but this did not happen). From this date, the new procedure for interaction between officials and citizens gained the force of the law.

On May 25, 2012, immediately after the announcement of the new composition of the Russian government, it became known that Aleksei Popov left the post of director of the IT department of the Russian government. TAdviser sources are sure that Aleksei Popov claimed the post of Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation, which was received by Nikolai Nikiforov. Having not received an appointment, he decided to leave the civil service.

"I quit from yesterday of my own accord," he told CNews. The reasons for the dismissal, according to him, are not the time to talk. "I don't plan to work in government agencies yet," he added^[1]. Deputy Popov Vladislav Fedulov was appointed acting director of the IT department.

September 22, 2011 CNews conference speech

Transition to UEC

On August 6, 2012, TAdviser published a message that in August-September 2012, Aleksei Popov can be appointed head of UEC.

On August 15, 2012, Aleksei Popov himself confirmed to CNews that he was negotiating employment as president of UEC. The proposal, he said, came from the company's shareholders. The final decision will not be made until September, he added.

Speaking about the development plans of the company, Popov emphasized that his point of view did not change compared to the one that he adhered to while working in the government:

"Firstly, it is necessary to simplify for citizens the procedures related to the issuance and circulation of cards. To do this, it is absolutely necessary to unite the efforts of the authorized organization and Sberbank in 2012. Secondly, consider the issue of actively attracting a large number of banks. To comply with their interests, you need to consider the possibility of using various payment systems. Finally, the card itself is not needed if there are no services that can be obtained from it. This means that the UEC should be integrated into the project of electronic public services, and, possibly, act as the flagship of this area ^[1]

Popov's position regarding chips embedded in the card is also interesting. "A domestic chip is good, but the main thing is to ensure competition," he said. "The reserve for reducing the cost of cards due to this has not yet been exhausted."

One of the interlocutors of CNews associates a possible change in the leadership of UEC with dissatisfaction with the project of the head of Sberbank German Gref. The Bank is the controlling shareholder of OJSC UEC.

"Initially, UEC was conceived to promote the Sberbank payment system, PRO100 he says. "However, the federal authorized organization was too carried away by the formulation of the rules for joining banks, certification of authorized organizations in the constituent entities and did not do enough functionality directly."

Popov's official appointment as president of the UEC took place on September 24, 2012. Earlier, Anna Katamadze, adviser to the president of Sberbank, became the vice-president and executive director of this organization.

It was planned that the issuance of electronic cards will begin on January 1, 2013 and end in 2015 with their replacement with electronic passports. At a press conference of the company at the Sochi-2012 International Investment Forum, Aleksei Popov said that from January 1, 2013, universal electronic cards will be issued according to the statements of citizens in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation. According to him, the Russian government has clearly given an answer that there will be no more postponements.

Aleksei Popov hoped that in five years there would be no universal electronic cards, since the simultaneous existence of an electronic card and an electronic passport, which will be issued in 2015, is meaningless. "But the cost of issuing these universal electronic cards is not meaningless - the turnover of these cards is not endless. If we release them now, then in three years it will be 2015. This is like a planned replacement, but with a proven technology, "he stressed in communication with journalists.

Rumors of resignation from UEC and return to business

On August 13, 2015, the Kommersant newspaper, citing anonymous sources, reported that Aleksei Popov was leaving both UEC and Sberbank. His new place of work, according to Kommersant's information, is likely to be BFT, which is part of IBS^[2].

Experts interviewed by Kommersant called Popov's departure quite logical.

"The UEC as it exists at the moment has lost its relevance. The task of mass distribution of a universal payment instrument has faded into the background, "says QB Finance analyst Madina Abaeva." Aleksei Popov has proven himself to be an effective manager - both at the state and corporate levels, so his departure suggests that there is currently no priority for the development of UEC. "

The interlocutor of TAdviser in BFT denied Popov's transfer to this company. According to him, Popov will continue to work at the UEC.

Ex-head of UEC engaged in speech recognition

After leaving the UEC project and leaving the post of vice president of Sberbank, Aleksei Popov focused on working in his own company Project - PIR, which he redesigned from a business incubator into a developer of speech recognition and voice verification systems. She promotes her decisions through partners, in the structure of one of which - the Swiss company Spitch - Popov concurrently took over as CEO^[3].

Titles and awards

Aleksei Popov is a valid state adviser to the Russian Federation of the 2nd class. He was awarded government awards and awards by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Treasury of Russia.

Information on income and property

The property of Aleksei Popov, his wife and minor daughter that fell into the declaration for 2011 has not changed in a year. He owned a land plot of 3975 sq.m., a residential building of 456.9 sq.m., a bathhouse of 184.1 sq. m. and a household block of 131.3 sq. m. The area of ​ ​ his apartment was 51.1 sq.m. Popov did not have cottages and garages, as well as cars registered for him.

As for loved ones, the official's wife at that time had two apartments with an area of ​ ​ 75 and 47.8 square meters. m., as well as two cars: VAZ-211440 and Volvo XC90. The only property of the daughter that fell into the declaration is the apartment, and judging by the exactly matching area (51.1 sq.m.), this is the same housing that is mentioned above in the data of Popov himself.

Big changes in 2011 occurred in the income of the family of the director of the government department. Last year's figures were still entirely related to work in the Treasury.

If in 2011 the declared annual income amounted to about 3.52 million rubles, then a year earlier the same figure was 6.47 million rubles. Earnings have almost halved. The income of his wife fell even more noticeably: from 3.2 million rubles. in 2010 to 800 thousand rubles. in 2011

According to Rosstat, the average salary in the Government Office is higher than in the Treasury. In 2011, in the first government agency, this figure was a little more than 102 thousand rubles. per month, and in the second - 89.3 thousand rubles. per month. According to these calculations, officials of both departments are among the highest paid among their colleagues in federal government agencies.

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