Ulf Persons (Ulf Persson)

Ulf Persons (Ulf Persson)

Biography

Ulf Persson graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics (undergraduate) and the Swedish Military Institute of Foreign Languages.

Since 1990, lives in Russia and is fluent in Russian.

In 1990-1995 He was engaged in the export of metals and raw materials from the CIS countries to Europe and the USA, managing the Russian office of Axel Johnson, and then AIOC Corp.

2000: Co-founder of Mint Capital

In 2000, he served as managing director of the AIG-Brunswick Millennium Fund with a capital of $300 million. Since the same year, he has been a co-founder and managing partner of Mint Capital.

In 2002, he became a member of the board of directors of Abbyy. In addition to Abbyy, he is a member of the boards of directors of Tablogix, Capital Collection Agency, Socialist Ltd, 2V Studios, Elexnet and UCMS.

According to Abbyy, since 2002, Ulf Persson has been a member of the boards of directors of more than 25 Russian companies operating in various sectors of the economy.

2017: Abbyy CEO

In January 2017, Abbyy announced the appointment of Ulf Persson as CEO of the company. The chairman of the board of directors will be David Jan, founder of Abbyy. Vadim Tereshchenko, who previously served as senior vice president, financial director of Abbyy Group of Companies, will assume the functions of executive and financial director. He will also become deputy general director.

As general director, Persson replaced Sergei Andreev, who headed Abbyy since 1999. The company told TAdviser that, having resigned as CEO, he remains a shareholder in the company.

In the very near future, Sergey plans to relax. He has some ideas and plans, but is not ready to talk about them yet, TAdviser said in Abbyy.

The change of CEO is associated with the company's goals for the next few years. Abbyy told TAdviser that each company has stages of development. Abbyy was founded by David Jan, under whose leadership the company became a promising startup. Then, 17 years ago, Abbyy was headed by Sergey Andreev, thanks to whose work today it is a stable international IT company.

A year and a half ago, Ulf Persson, being the chairman of the board of directors, initiated the development of a strategy for the development of the company, it was adopted by the board of directors. One of the main goals is to double revenue in the next few years. This is possible due to the strengthening of our position in international markets. According to the board of directors, it is Ulf, having international experience, who will best cope with this task as CEO, "explained TAdviser.