Elena Kolmanovskaya — Co-Founder and Consultant at Yandex N.V.

Ms. Elena Kolmanovskaya is the Co-Founder of Yandex N.V., and serves as its Consultant. Ms. Kolmanovskaya served as Chief Editor at Yandex N.V from 2000 to 2012. Prior to joining Yandex, Ms. Kolmanovskaya worked at CompTek International focusing on the development and promotion of information retrieval technologies. Prior to that, Ms. Kolmanovskaya worked as a Programmer for East Coast Sheet Metal Corp. in New York, NY, USA, as an Analyst for Pragma and as a software engineer at the All-Union Research Institute for Geological Exploration and Petroleum (VNIGNI). Ms. Kolmanovskaya is the Author of numerous publications on Internet technologies. She participates in field seminars on Internet marketing and online advertising. Ms. Kolmanovskaya has a degree in applied mathematics from the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas.