Tigran Khudaverdyan

Tigran Oganesovich Khudaverdyan (Russian: Тигран Оганесович Худавердян, Armenian: Տիգրան Հովհաննեսի Խուդավերդյան, romanized: Tigran Hovhannesi Khudaverdyan; born 28 December 1981) is a Russian businessman, the deputy CEO and an executive member of the board of directors of Yandex N.V.

Tigran Khudaverdyan
Born (1981-12-28) 28 December 1981
Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Armenia)
CitizenshipRussian
Alma materMoscow State University
OccupationBusinessman
Known forDeputy CEO of Yandex

Early life

Born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1981, Tigran Khudaverdian graduated from the Moscow State University, physics department in 2004.[1] Before joining Yandex, he participated in developing internet projects and headed a web studio.[2]

Career

Tigran Khudaverdyan joined Yandex in April 2006, as a project manager for portal services and technologies. Since then he has led several successful Yandex projects, including Yandex.Browser and Yandex.Navigator.[3]

From 2009 to 2012, he was Head of Division for Portal Products and Mobile Apps.[4] Since 2012 he has been the Head of Direction for Yandex.Browser and Yandex.Taxi and has been appointed Head of Product Development in 2013.[1]

He moved to the Yandex.Taxi business in 2015, and has served as chief executive officer of MLU B.V., ride-hailing and food delivery joint venture with Uber, since its formation.[3]

In 2019 Tigran Khudaverdyan was appointed as Deputy CEO of Yandex N.V.[5] and joined the company's Board of Directors.[6]

In 2019 he was featured in Young Global Leaders list initiated by the World Economic Forum.[7]

In 2020 he attended the World Economic Forum in Davos as a speaker of "Inequality: A Barrier to Economic Growth" discussion.[8]

Personal life

Tigran is married and has five sons.[2]

References
  1. "Tigram Khudaverdyan Profile". Webit. Retrieved 23 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Tigran Khudaverdian". World Economic Forum.
  3. "Tigran Khudaverdyan, Deputy CEO, Yandex". www.topionetworks.com.
  4. "Трансформация "Такси" и сборка часов: чем Тигран Худавердян занимался до руководства "Яндексом"". vc.ru.
  5. "Yandex Appoints Tigran Khudaverdyan as Deputy CEO". russiabusinesstoday.com.
  6. "Tigran Khudaverdyan, Yandex NV: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com.
  7. "Community". The Forum of Young Global Leaders.
  8. "Inequality: A Barrier to Economic Growth". Roscongress Building Trust.
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