Executive Team
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Igor Efremov - Founder, President and CEO
Igor Efremov is responsible for technical and strategic direction of Sperasoft R&D and directs the Sperasoft Network Operations Center Services (NOC) line of business.
Prior to founding Sperasoft, Mr. Efremov worked for over eight years with Electronic Arts (EA), the world’s leading independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. At EA, he held various senior technical positions including Network Operations Center Lead, Senior Enterprise System Management Engineer and Senior Unix Administrator. Prior to EA, Mr. Efremov founded IVEX, LLC, a business integration consulting services company providing IT services to large banks and government organizations in Russia. Under his leadership, IVEX grew quickly from zero to over $2 million in revenues and then was sold profitably to a competitor.
Mr. Efremov holds a Master of Social Science Degree from Yakutsk State University, Russia.
Alexei Kudriashov, MD - Founder, Chairman and COO
Alexei Kudriashov has more than 20 years of international experience in technology business development, marketing and sales. At Sperasoft, Dr. Kudriashov is responsible for driving the company’s growth and market strategies, strategic business partnerships and management of rapidly growing, highly collaborative offshore development teams.
Prior to founding Sperasoft, Inc., Dr. Kudriashov managed various aspects of the Software Marketing Group at Sun Microsystems, where he directed business and channel strategy and management. Earlier, Dr. Kudriashov was a Director of Business Development, European Division at Valtex International Corp., specializing in new business development, strategic marketing, and contract negotiation.
Dr. Kudriashov received an M.S. in Management and Business from MIT, Sloan School of Management, and his M.D. from Volgograd State Medical University, Russia, where he first became prominent as an expert in advanced high-tech medical devices and equipment.
Denis Larkin - Director of Engineering
Denis Larkin brings a wealth of experience and skills to Sperasoft, including an uncommon specialty in managing offshore software development practices, enterprise systems and architecture design. Mr. Larkin actively supervises and consults on development of a broad range of projects, including ASP.NET portals and mobile applications for Window Mobile/J2ME/ARM platforms, Java Intranet CMS/Monitoring portals, and development projects for Linux and Macintosh systems.
Prior to joining Sperasoft in 2004, as an independent contractor Mr. Larkin led development, architecture and solutions implementation on .NET, J2EE, J2ME, and Web platforms. He also helped design the Russian Government Federal Educational Portal, where he directed Web-based educational systems implementation in the fields of Physics, Math and Chemistry.
Mr. Larkin holds a Master of Science Degree in IT from St. Petersburg University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia.
Anna Fedorova - Director of Operations
Anna Fedorova brings to the company a decade of experience and outstanding skills in the Russian Telecommunication and IT services sectors. Ms. Fedorova manages SperaSoft’s day-to-day business operations and HR Policies, directing and coordinating office staff members in numerous global locations.
Prior to joining SperaSoft, she held senior account management positions with companies including Baltic Communications (BCL), a British-Russian joint venture telephone company, ZAO Citibank Russia, and Golden Telecom, a leading provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in Russia and CIS countries. Ms. Fedorova is recognized for building from scratch, organizing and directing the work of customer service departments and for managing and growing VIP and top-level corporate client accounts.
Ms. Fedorova holds a Master of Science Degree in Psychology from Eastern European University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Pavel Osminin - Art Director
Pavel Osminin brings his extensive experience in managing various offshore art development projects to Sperasoft. Mr. Osminin has excellent leadership skills in building and managing multifaceted groups of digital arts professionals. At Sperasoft Pavel is responsible for art outsourcing line of business along with managing and building dependable teams of highly skillful, professional artists.
Prior to joining Sperasoft, Pavel worked as a lead 3D graphics developer for US and Canada based studios. His diverse portfolio includes well known comic book titles, art assets for interactive WEB 3D applications, conceptual art and high quality photorealistic 3D renderings and cartoons. Previously Mr. Osminin worked on large video game titles as a lead manager of several art teams.
Mr. Osminin holds a Master of Science Degree in Sound Engineering from St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions, Russia.
Ilya Pshenichniy - Game Producer
Ilya Pshenichniy has a proven track record of delivering and shipping multiple console titles for a wide list of top-level publishers, including titles based on well-known IPs. At Sperasoft Mr. Pshenichniy leads Game Development department, establishes and manages processes and procedures and is responsible for quality of game projects from both end-user and internal perspectives.
Prior to joining Sperasoft Mr. Pshenichniy worked as producer and lead engineer at Creat Studios video games production company where he gathered incredible experience working on console titles for such publishers as Activision, Midway, Konami, Atari, Cartoon Network and others. Ilya’s track record includes titles for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, XBOX, Nintendo DS and Nintendo Game Cube.
Ilya Pshenichniy holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia.
