Sulgin Sergey Pavlovich

Sulgin Sergey Pavlovich

Biography

Born in 1973. In 1995 he graduated from Moscow State University.

From 1995 to 1997 He worked as a consultant, project manager of Platinum Russia, and then director of the Platinum SQL department.

In September 1997, he joined Baan Russia as Director of Localization and Development.

Since January 1999, he joined GMCS as Director of Development. And in 2003 he headed the GMCS.

In 2005, GMCS became part of the Compulink group of companies, and in 2006 Sulgin headed the board of directors of Compulink Group of Companies.

In April 2012, Sergey Sulgin left the board of directors of Compylink, deciding to focus on another business project. Information about this was distributed by the press service of the group of companies.

Along with the founder of the group, Mikhail Lyasche, Sergey Sulgin was at that time one of the largest shareholders of Compulink. The exact share of packages of top managers was not disclosed.^[1]

Mikhail Lyashch was elected the new chairman of the board of directors of Compulink. He combined this position with the position of the president of Compulink Group of Companies, which he held since the founding of the company.

Maykor President

After leaving Compulink in April 2012, Sergey Sulgin headed the Maykor group of companies, which provided services for the maintenance of IT equipment, engineering systems and business applications.

When Nikolai Nikiforov was Minister of Communications and Mass Communications, Maykor was the only provider of technical support services for Russian Post for several consecutive years (from 2014 to 2017 ). The contract value was 11.5 billion rubles.

In the ranking of TAdviser 100 largest IT companies in Russia, Maykor ranked 23rd in 2017 with 11 billion rubles of revenue and more than 6,000 employees.

In 2018, GMCS and BTE left Maykor, they were sold to Sovcombank, and Sulgin left his post.

Since the end of 2018, Maykor's website has ceased to be updated, although the company itself, judging by the state contracts won, continues to work in 2020.

Attempt to create a plant in Tatarstan

In 2016, the Industrial Development Fund (FRP) announced the plans of Rostoner to build a plant for the production of toners and cartridges for copying and multiplying equipment worth 619.3 million rubles in the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan. FRP acted as co-investor of the project. Rostoner at that time was 95% owned by Sergei Sulgin.

And in August 2018, Rostoner and MPS.Centr, which Sulgin owns together with the Startobaza company owned by Svetlana Nikiforova, announced the launch of a toner production plant and cartridges for copying and multiplying equipment, calling it the first in Russia. According to plans, the annual volume of toner production at the enterprise was supposed to be 600 tons. At the time of the announcement, work was also underway to develop and certify cartridges of domestic production for key models of office equipment used in Russia. In the same month, according to the Kontur.Focus legal entity database, Svetlana Nikiforova acquired 47.5% of Rostoner.

After that, there was no news about the results of the plant.

Emigration from Russia and employment in Arrival

On November 29, 2020, Telegram channel "Non-Digital Economy" reported that Sergey Sulgin got a job in the Arrival project, founded by Denis Sverdlov, who worked as Deputy Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov in 2012-2013.

As TAdviser discovered, Sulgin was appointed director of Arrival Solutions in February 2020. Such data are contained in the state British register of legal entities Companies House. It also states that Sulgin has Maltese citizenship, and that he is a resident of England.

Arrival was founded in 2015 and is engaged in the development of electric buses. The company employs 1.2 thousand people in 8 countries. In October 2020, Arrival announced the attraction of $118 million in investments from funds managed by the investment company BlackRock. And in 2021, the company intends to place shares on the Nasdaq exchange. Since 2019, the former Deputy Minister of Communications Alexei Kozyrev has also been working at Arrival.

Jurlizo Arrival Solutions, headed by Sulgin, is registered in London. According to Arrival, in Britain it has its headquarters, production facilities in the city of Banbury and a development center in London.

Sergey Sulgin joined the Arrival team, writes Non-Digital Economy, at the end of 2018. This was preceded by a criminal case and the arrest of Mikhail Lyashch, president of Compyulink, where Sulgin from 2006 to 2012. served as chairman of the board of directors. Then, citing media sources, they wrote that against the background of this case, searches were carried out at Sulgin, who at that time held the post of president of Maykor^[2]. However, in March 2020, the criminal case was dismissed.

Co-founder of Buyk service

In June 2021, it became known that Sergey Sulgin became one of the co-founders of the food and goods delivery service for the Buyk house. Together with him, this service in the United States is launched by the founders of Samokat Vyacheslav Bocharov and Rodion Shishkov. The startup raised $46 million from investors, said a joint statement by funds CM Ventures, Fort Ross Ventures and Citius, which became lead investors in the round.

Buyk is building a network of small warehouses (darkstores) in the United States, from which couriers will deliver orders within a radius of 1.5 km by bicycle. Delivery will be free, there is no minimum order amount, and prices are "like in a store at home," the report said. A representative of Samokat said in June that a team from Russia will develop and support the new service. The ^[3].

The company Arrival on the page of Sergei Sulgin on the social network LinkedIN is now indicated as a former place of work.

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