Semyonov Alexander Vladimirovich

Semyonov Alexander Vladimirovich

Biography

Alexander was born on July 29, 1975 in St. Petersburg.

In 1997 he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of St. Petersburg State University.

In 1999-2000, he completed a retraining course for middle and senior management under the Manager program at IMISP.

In 2019, he graduated from the Global Business program at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

In 1996 and until 2003, he worked for CSBI, consistently occupying positions from department specialist to director of the department.

From 2003 to 2004, he worked at Reksoft as a director of sales and business development.

In 2004, he joined Korus Consulting as Development Director. Under his leadership, new EMC Documentum and Oracle business application practices were created.

2007: CEO of Korus Consulting

On October 2, 2007, the founder of Korus Consulting Igor Shirokov took over as president of the company, appointing Alexander Semenov as the new general director.

"Under the leadership of Alexander, the company has become the largest system integrator in St. Petersburg with almost 500 employees and clients in all regions of Russia and the CIS," Korus said then.

2010 CNews interview.

2014: Transfer to Rostec as Deputy General Director of the National Center for Informatization

On April 15, 2014, Alexander Semenov became president of the Korus Consulting group of companies and focused on strategic development, curating promising business areas and working with key customers and partners. Sergey Karpunichev was appointed General Director of Korus Consulting.

In June 2014, CNews included Semenov among the members of the Kazan Iteshniki team.

In November 2014, Semenov took over as Deputy General Director "National Center for Informatization" (NCI). This company belongs to the state corporation "" and Rostec is its contractor for the maintenance of components of the Unified state Information System (health care Uniform State Health Information System). By the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, Rostec was appointed the sole executor of these works in the interests of the Ministry of Health^[1]

In an interview with CNews, Alexander Semenov said that he would be engaged in the development of healthcare, combining this activity with his work as president of Korus Consulting.

In addition to health care, Semenov at the NCI oversaw the direction of informatization of education.

2015: Dismissal from the "National Center for Informatization"

In November 2015, Alexander Semenov left the post of deputy general director of the NCI, his acquaintances told TAdvier and he himself confirmed.

work has been done at the NCI over the past year. A team of experienced project managers with serious knowledge of subject areas has been formed, and they will continue to successfully develop the projects of the social block. I plan to focus on my own business at Korus Consulting. We predict revenue growth of the group of companies by 30% this year, and I want to focus on the further development of the group's activities, "said TAdviser Semenov

Ex-colleagues of Semenov in the NCI say that the official reason for his resignation was the desire to spend more time with the family that lives in St. Petersburg (working in the NCI, he was forced to be mainly in Moscow). One of the interlocutors considers Semenov's dismissal as a consequence of the fact that Denis Sverdlov, a former deputy minister of communications and managing partner of Korus Consulting (since 2015 he has been managing the London venture capital fund Kinetik), practically ceased to participate in the company's activities.

The NCI TAdviser said that Director of the Department of Medical Information Systems Alexander Chernyaev will be responsible for projects on the informatization of health care after Semenov's departure. The company could not report on Semenov's successor in the direction of informatization of education by the time of publication.

As of March 16, 2018, Alexander Vladimirovich Semenov acts as chairman of the board of directors of Korus Consulting.

2018: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Korus Consulting

Since 2018, Alexander Semenov has been the chairman of the board of directors of the KORUS Consulting group of companies.

2021

As of September 2021, Alexander Semenov is the general director and chairman of the board of directors of the. KORUS Consulting Member Portuguese of the Red Angels Foundation, member. Angelsdeck Club He is the co-founder and investor of more than 10 companies in the fields retail and services for b2b. Founder of several the European IT companies.

2022

Interview with Tadviser

In an interview with TAdviser, KORUS Consulting experts shared the features of data migration, talked about the advantages of domestic electronic document management systems and assessed the main motives for customers leaving Western platforms. Read more here.

Investment in the management accounting service for small and medium-sized businesses "Financier"

On May 12, 2022, the Financier cloud service for management accounting and analytics for small and medium-sized businesses announced the attraction of 120 million rubles of investments. Anton Dolgov, founder of First BIT, Roman Kalinkin, director of the First Bit Lab accelerator, Alexander Semenov, general director of KORUS Consulting Group of Companies, and Alexander Monosov, general director of BFT, have invested in the startup. Read more here.

2023: Tadviser interview

How leaders grow and develop within a large company, where they take funding to implement their own ideas and develop new solutions, what opportunities are now opening up for strong IT teams and how to use them correctly - we talked about this with Alexander Semenov, General Director ofKORUS Consulting Group. Read more here.

Other activities

Since 2010, he has been teaching the author's course "Information Technologies in Business" for students of the Executive MBA program at the St. Petersburg International Institute of Management.

Awards

In 2012-13 Alexander entered the list of the best top managers in the field of information technology in the Northwestern Federal District according to the publishing house Kommersant and the Golden Top 100 of Delovoy Petersburg.

In 2020, he entered the top 30 most cited business leaders in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region according to Kommersant.

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