Baytsur Anton Grigoryevich

Baytsur Anton Grigoryevich

Career

2010-2015

From 2010 to 2015 Anton Baitsur worked in a sports publication sports.ru. At the time of leaving him, he served as director of products.

2015-2018

Anton Baitsur joined Aviasales in 2015, and in 2018 the company appointed him operations director. His area of ​ ​ responsibility then included marketing, technology and products.

Baitsur stood at the origins of the video blog "Vdud" on the YouTube, whose author Yuri Dud had long been familiar with Baitsur (they worked together in sports.ru).

2021: Appointment as CEO of Aviasales

At the end of September 2021 , Aviasales air ticket search service announced the appointment of a new CEO. It was Anton Baitsur, who had previously worked for the company as an operating director. The former head of Aviasales, Max Krainov, became chairman of its board of directors.

Strategically, Aviasales, led by Baitsur, intends to further increase its stake in Russia, the company said in a statement quoted by Vedomosti.

According to its own data, the monthly audience of Aviasales by August 2021 was 15 million users. At the end of 2021, total sales through the site (GMV) will grow by 50% compared to 2019-2020. and will exceed $2 billion, told Vedomosti managing partner of the fund iTech Capital and co-owner of the Aviasales service Gleb Davidyuk.

The change of CEO of Aviasales was announced almost two months after, how the service attracted $43 million in investments from funds managed by Elbrus Capital and iTech Capital - Elbrus Capital Fund III and iTech Fund II. Aviasales planned to direct the funds raised to launch new products, investment in marketing, travel service development and Travelpayouts global partner marketing automation platform.^[1]

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