Our People

Runa is a diverse team of tech-savvy people who are passionate about entrepreneurship. Our team members are founders and coders who have launched and scaled startups from small businesses to global tech unicorns.
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Ilya Zubarev

Chairman & Co-founder

Ukraine, Cyprus
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Dmitry Chikhachev

General Partner & Co-founder

Luxembourg
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Andre Bliznyuk

General Partner

United States
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Dmitry Galperin

General Partner

Germany
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Michael Fanfant

General Partner

United States
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Konstantin Vinogradov

General Partner

United Kingdom
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Jinal Jhaveri

Venture Partner

United States
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Stu Libby

Venture Partner

United States
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Maxime Corbani

Senior Associate

France
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Konstantin Gnyp

Senior Associate

Germany
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Francesco Ricciuti

Associate

Germany
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Murat Akuyev

General Counsel

United States
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Denis Kalinin

Asia Business Development Manager

Singapore
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Anna Elokhina

Human Resources & Operations Manager

Luxembourg
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Chris Spillane

Head of Communications

Spain
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Saadat Musayeva

Finance Manager

Luxembourg
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Eugene Chernyavsky

Data Lead

Bulgaria
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Boris Nedyalkov

Data Analyst

Bulgaria
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Iakov Kaiumov

Data Engineer

Bulgaria
The Runa Family: Founders, Limited Partners and Advisors
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Alexander
Artope

CEO & Co-Founder at Smava

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Michal
Borkowski

CEO & Co-Founder at Brainly

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Andreas
Gauger

Ex-CEO at 1&1 (Hosting)
Co-founder at ProfitBricks

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Edward
Nicholson

Advisory Board Member at Runa
ex-Chairman at UBS

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Igor
Sysoev

Senior Architect at F5 Networks
Ex-CTO & Founder at Nginx

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Kirill
Tatarinov

Ex-CEO at Citrix
Ex-President at Microsoft

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Achim
Weiss

CEO at 1&1 IONOS
Co-founder at ProfitBricks

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Michael
Widenius

CTO & Founder at MariaDB
Ex-CTO & Founder at MySQL

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Jim
Herman

Ex-CRO at Acronis & Parallels
Ex-VP Sales at Symantec