Sasha Galitsky

Alexander Galitsky is a Managing Partner of Almaz Capital Partners, an international venture fund with major office in Portola Valley, CA, which is backed by Cisco Systems, EBRD and IFC, which he co founded in 2008. Alexander is a well known innovator, entrepreneur and investor in USA and Europe. Alexander was nominated for best venture capitalist of the last decade in Europe in 2012 by Investor AllStars and named "Technology Pioneer" at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2000, was honored numerous times as the most influential person in the Russian IT and Internet industry by Forbes, best GP of 2013 by Venture Awards, EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Russia in 2013. Currently Sasha serves as a member of Board of Directors at the following international companies: CarPrice, Jelastic, Octonion/PIQ, Parallels, PetCube, StarWind, and serves as Institute Advisor in B612 Foundation. Prior to Almaz Capital, Alexander made a series of private successful investments. His past and current investments include: Parallels, Yandex (IPO), QIK (sold to Skype), Vyatta (sold to Brocade), Acumatica, Jelastic, NavMaps (sold to TeleAtlas), Acronis, SJLabs (sold to VocalTec), EverNote, GridGain, WikiMart, CarPrice, StarWind, PIQ, Good Data among others. Prior to his investment career, he founded five successful high-tech companies, ELVIS+, TrustWorks Systems (sold to Hamsard), EzWIM (sold to TMT Ventures), ELVIS Telecom (sold to Telenor) and NPC ELVIS, all of which he led as CEO. He pioneered in WiFi and Virtual Private Network technologies and product development on the global market in partnership with Sun Microsystems. He has over 30 patents for numerous inventions, including parallel processing, WiFi and VPN security technologies.