Tigran Khudaverdyan — Head of Desktop & Mobile Products at Yandex N.V.

Mr. Tigran Khudaverdyan serves as Chief Executive Officer of Yandex LLC. Mr. Khudaverdyan serves as Head of Desktop and Mobile Products at Yandex N.V. Mr. Khudaverdyan oversees the maintenance and development of one-stop user authentication across all Yandex services and managed all of its umbrella solutions unifying user experience, including Yandex's front page. Apart from technical development and strategic marketing of these two products, the scope of his responsibility includes Yandex 's free Android firmware, Yandex.Kit and a taxi service aggregator, Yandex.Taxi. His job at Yandex is to define the needs of people in their everyday lives and respond to these needs with smart, efficient and user-friendly products on desktop and mobile platforms. He joined Yandex in 2006 as a Project Manager. He served a key role in launching Yandex's mobile navigation app, Yandex.Navigator, as well as a web browser, Yandex.Browser. Prior to starting his career at Yandex, he helped to get into existence a number of online retail stores and even ran a bakery of his own. Mr. Khudaverdyan has a degree in physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University.