Shulgin Alexander

Shulgin Alexander

Biography

Alexander Shulgin came to Yandex in 2010 as financial director. In 2011, with his participation, the company held an initial offering of shares on the Nasdaq exchange. Before Yandex, Shulgin worked for 10 years in various financial positions at Coca-Cola, in 2007 he became the financial director of Coca-Cola in Russia. A graduate of Rostov State University, has a degree in management.

Yandex appointed Alexander Shulgin as the CEO of the company's Russian business at the end of the summer of 2014. Earlier, the Russian office of Yandex was led by Arkady Volozh, the founder of the search engine. After transferring his duties to Shulgin, he remained the head of the Yandex group of companies. Greg Abovsky will take the place of chief financial officer, the official statement said.

In 2017, Alexander is an investor and blockchain evangelist, partner of ITech Capital Fund (BitFury). In November, Abovsky Greg replaced Alexander Shulgin as operations director of Yandex, who decided to leave the company.

In December 2017, Internet retailer Ozon.ru announced the change of CEO. Instead of the Israeli Perekalsky, Danny, this post was taken by the Russian Alexander Shulgin. Thus, for the first time in the last 12 years, the Ozon.ru was headed by a Russian. At the same time, Bernard Luke continues to hold the post of president of the company.

On April 11, 2022, the European Union imposed sanctions on the general director of the online retailer Ozon Alexander Shulgin. According to a publication on the website of the EU magazine, sanctions were imposed due to the fact that on February 24, 2022, Shulgin was at a meeting of Russian oligarchs with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to the EU, the fact of Shulgin's presence at this meeting means that he supports Russia's policy towards Ukraine. In addition, the EU notes that Ozon is the leading platform in Russia in the field of e-commerce, despite the fact that "this direction brings significant revenues to the Russian government." The next day, the company announced that Alexander Shulgin was leaving the company.