A seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and executive, Alex Freedland has a 20-year track record of developing and scaling successful technology companies. Before joining Grid Dynamics, he founded and led Mirantis, building the company into a leader in the Russian product-development outsourcing space. He is also a principal of Ventra Employment, a top Russian HR Services company.

Earlier, Alex co-founded RSI Group, Inc., one of the world’s foremost providers of Receivables Management Software. As EVP and CTO, he oversaw both Product Development and Technology Services for RSI, which was later acquired by London Bridge Software, now part of Fair Isaac Corporation. Alex has also held a wide range of technical and management positions with Tektronix, IBM, ADP, Netscape, and KLA-Tencor.

Alex currently serves on the Boards of Directors of several technology companies. He holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Boris Renski joined Grid Dynamics in 2006 with its acquisition of Selectosa Systems, a product development consultancy which he founded and led. An expert in international IT, Boris has extensive industry experience in both the U.S. and Russia, and specializes in bridging the environments and business practices of the two countries. He previously served as VP of Business Development at R&K, one of Russia’s largest IT conglomerates, where he managed strategic relationships with Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Western Digital, and AMD.

Boris holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems and Business Operations from Santa Clara University in California.

Ilya Elterman brings over seven years of software-industry background to his role with Grid Dynamics. For the last three years he has led the establishment of Product Development Centers at the company’s Saratov facility, for world-leading technology innovators such as Cisco and Agilent.

During his earlier years, Ilya was an active participant in annual International Collegiate Programming Contests organized by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He has won the title of European Champion and has also been awarded two silver medals.

Ilya holds a M.Sc. degree in Physics with honors from Saratov State University, Russia.

Maria Akchurina oversees the Grid Dynamics branches in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Saratov, as well as Kharkov in Ukraine. She joined the company in 2007 to head up business development in Russia, and continues to manage the company’s client relations there. Maria contributes extensive experience in sales and operations management, customer relationships, and business process improvement.

Prior to Grid Dynamics, Maria was Sales Director at R&K Consulting, focusing on pipeline generation and contract negotiations.

Maria holds an M.S. in Public Administration from Moscow State University and is an International Executive MBA candidate at the Stockholm School of Economics in Russia.

Herman Narkaytis spearheads the company’s operations in Saratov, Russia, supervising back-office management, client relations, and strategic ODCs (Offshore Development Centers) there. Prior to joining Grid Dynamics in 2006, Herman was instrumental in building Selectosa Systems, a company serving small and medium-sized U.S. businesses with offshore product-development resources.

Herman has over ten years of operations and project management experience. Among his accomplishments are a strategic partnership between Grid Dynamics and Saratov State University that has led to the recruitment and cultivation of significant young talent.

Herman holds a Ph.D. in mathematical modeling and numerical methods from Saratov State Technical University.

Stan Klimoff spearheads such projects as a 16,000-node, grid-based implementation for a major Web 2.0 company, employing innovative Semantic Web concepts and advanced visualization techniques. He also led the recent performance testing and tuning of the GigaSpaces 6 XAP in-memory data-grid engine.

Stan’s specialties include smart networking, formal methodologies and languages, knowledge bases, and functional programming. Before joining Grid Dynamics, he spent four years as a software engineer at Selectosa Systems, where he led design and development for an online gaming project and its associated Web site.

Stan holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Saratov State University.