Anton Antich

Current

Regional Manager, Russia / CIS at VMware

Past

Partner Director, Russia / CIS at VMWare
Global Alliances Manager at Microsoft
Marketing Director at Verysell-6 (formerly V6 Technologies)

Business Development Manager at Novosoft

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Education

Novosibirskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet
Novosibirsk Phys-Math School (СУНЦ при НГУ)
Phillips Academy, Andover

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Anton Antich’s Summary

Experienced manager and innovator in IT industry. Acted successfully both as an entrepreneur, helping build several start-ups, and as a corporation manager, responsible for growing business for the last 10 years at Russian SIs, Microsoft and VMware:

- Stepping up to lead VMware Russia / CIS team as a Regional Manager in very challenging 2009 conditions; growing VMware revenue YoY in H1 despite Russian IT market falling by over 40% YoY

- Growing revenue 16x times during first 2 years at VMware, Russia / CIS in acting Regional Manager and Partner Director roles

- Building manageable and scalable Channel for VMware across distribution and OEM partners (HP, IBM and others) from 40 to 380 partners while leading Partner Organization for this region

- Building business processes and taking control over alliances business at Russian Microsoft, growing jointly tracked portfolio from virtually non-existent state to $35M per year

- Proven ability to build and develop teams and business-processes from scratch to quickly leverage new market opportunities. Self-motivating, goal-oriented team player with excellent communication and presentation skills, willing to take on difficult challenges.

Anton Antich’s Specialties:

Leading teams, business development, sales management, alliance and channel management, managing innovation & change, enterprise software industry, virtualization, internet.

Anton Antich’s Experience

Regional Manager, Russia / CIS

VMware

(Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

- Stepping up to lead VMware Russia / CIS team as a Regional Manager in very challenging 2009 conditions
- Growing VMware revenue YoY in H1 2009 despite Russian IT market falling by over 40% YoY
Partner Director, Russia / CIS

VMWare

(Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 1 month)

- Building VMware business and partner team from scratch in Russia / CIS
- Grew revenue 6 times during first year on board
- Responsible for Country Manager duties until his joining in December, 2007
- Building scalable distribution / reseller channel and OEM alliances business
Global Alliances Manager

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — March 2007 (3 years 3 months)

Responsible for joint Microsoft business with HP, SAP, Accenture and others in the Russian market, totalling over $35M a year. Developed business opportunities, managed alliance relationship, being responsible for strategic planning & execution of the key projects for enterprise customers.
Marketing Director

Verysell-6 (formerly V6 Technologies)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

Driving marketing strategy and execution while repositioning the company from a web-developer into a leading IT consultant for Retail industry in Moscow.
Business Development Manager

Novosoft

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years )

Started a mobile & wireless solutions unit and built it up from scratch to ~ $250,000 sales within a year. At present, the unit has been transformed into a separate mobile products & services company Sibinco (http://www.sibinco.ru)

Anton Antich’s Education

Novosibirskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet

BS , Physics , 1994 — 1998

Activities and Societies:

"Kvadrat" rock-band
Novosibirsk Phys-Math School (СУНЦ при НГУ)

1992 — 1994
Phillips Academy, Andover

n/a , n/a , September 1993 — December 1993

Studied as an exchange student.