Solovyova Yulia Dmitrievna

Solovyova Yulia Dmitrievna

Biography

She graduated with honors from Moscow State Linguistic University with a degree in foreign languages. In 2000-2001, she received an MBA from Harvard Business School (Boston, USA).

In 1999, she headed the Directorate for Organizational Development at NTV Plus.

From 2001 to 2003, Mrs. Solovyova lived in Holland and worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting company.

From 2003 to 2006, she was Director for Corporate Development of Mobile Television Systems OJSC.

From October 2007 to April 2008, she was the general director of ProfMedia, where at the beginning of 2007 she came to the post of first deputy general director.

Since July 2008, she served as executive vice president of ProfMedia.

In the ranking of Finance magazine in 2010 she was recognized as one of the most influential business women in Russia.

from February to December 2011 - President of the ProfMedia Holding. "I thank all my colleagues for their productive work together and wish everyone the best of luck in the new year. Over these five years, we have achieved a lot - the holding has formed an attractive portfolio of assets and successfully integrated them, the operating and corporate governance system has been optimized, and the level of transparency of the company has been increased. I am proud of these changes, and at the same time I understand that the moment has come for me when I need to move on, "commented Yulia Solovyova.

As of December 2011, Yulia Solovyova was part of the personnel reserve of the President of Russia.

Since January 2013, the Russian division of Google has been headed by the ex-president of the ProfMedia holding, Yulia Solovyova. She replaced Vladimir Dolgov in this position, who left Google Russia in mid-2012, heading the Russian representative office of the eBay online auction - eBay Marketplaces.

Since 2022 - Managing Director for Emerging Markets at EMEA at Google UAE (Google SEi).

2023: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Softline Group of Companies

At the end of February 2023, Yulia Solovyova, Managing Director of Google in the emerging markets of the EMEA region in Dubai, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Softline Group of Companies. The full list of members of the Board of Directors can be found here.