You get someone who tells measurable from unmeasurable — and can explain the difference to a board, a festival jury, or a film crew.
Twenty years of building businesses where decisions are made under uncertainty: Rostelecom's national-corporations segment grew from 4.4 to 22 billion roubles in seven years; Russia's passive-infrastructure market at Russian Towers was built from scratch and raised over five hundred million dollars. The same work now — behind three doors.
Boards and investors
An independent director who asks about data quality in a way that makes management count rather than defend. Chair of the boards of Synterra Media and Inform, 2022–2025, three full annual cycles.
Authors, editors, festivals
Spektr•: a map of how your work is built, with a quote and an address for every finding — instead of a score, instead of an opinion.
Viewers
TV PRO•: conversations with people who make media and technology, and breakdowns of how their decisions work. Forty-three episodes and one hundred seventy-seven shorts.
PhD in engineering, applied mathematics (MIEM); certified director, Association of Independent Directors; VP Rostelecom 2017–2026; Deputy CEO Nokia Siemens Networks Russia — a business of one hundred fifty million euros, share of wallet with the key client up from twenty-five to forty-eight per cent; “Best Corporate Media 2025”, AKMR — for the channel's work for a client.
Evidence instead of impression — a family way of judging a work
The usual way to judge a work is an impression. A hundred years ago the critic Alfred Bem in my family called his way “the method of small observations”: evidence instead of impression. I do the same with numbers.