Denis Dovgopoliy

Current

• Executive Team Member at Innovative Breakthrought 2009 Competition
• Advisory Board Member at P-Navigator
• Co-Founder at Startup Crash Test

• Organizer 2008, 2009 at Investor Day Central & Eastern Europe
• Vice President of Business Development at SenderOK
• Partner, Managing Director at BayView Innovations
• Executive Committee member - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 at Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference
• Executive Team Member at AmBAR
• Trainer at Self Employed
• Judge 2006-2009 at BIT Competion

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Past

• Vice President of Business Development at Hippocrat
• Investment Project Day Organizer at Internet-Ukraine 2009 Conference
• Organizer at Silicon Valley Best Practices. Kiev Master Classes

• Mentor at SeedCamp Western Europe at Seedcamp
• Chairperson, Speaker, Partner, Panel Moderator at TMT Executive Seminar Kiev '08
• Speaker at UA Web 2008 Conference
• Ukrainian Partner at Emerging Markets Private Equity Conference
• Ukrainian Partner at Moscow Venture Forum
• Co-Organizer at Ukrainian Executive Study Tour to Best Silicon Valley Companies
• Co-owner at Mobile Marketing Research (MMR) Agency
• Managing Director at Center for Innovation Development
• Speaker at Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum `2006
• Co-owner, CEO at Profit Center
• Co-owner at Conference "Client oriented company"
• Commercial director at Novatek
• CEO, Co-owner at Mobilizator ltd
• Commercial Director (marketing and sales) at Ukrpage
• IT Director at Perspectiva

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Education

• IMI Kiev
• Kiev Politechnik Institute

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Denis Dovgopoliy’s Summary

If you are in the VC business in the US and interested in expanding into the Eastern European HiTech market, please feel free to meet me in the Ukraine or in the Silicon Valley.

I am a serial entrepreneur. My main goal is to make brand “UKRAINE” recognized globally in the VC and technology world. If you are interested in the Ukrainian scientific and VC potential, please, feel free to contact me.

I am looking for Entrepreneurs (CEOs) and angel (VC) money for Ukrainian Technology sector .

2600+ links in Linkedin.com in VC, High-Tech and IT

You can read my blog (Russian) at http://dennydov.blogspot.com
Twitter: dennydov

Please, feel free to write me at
denny (dot) do -at- gmail (dot) com

Denis Dovgopoliy’s Specialties:

Business Development, Management, Marketing, High-Tech, Entrepreneurship, Management Consulting, Startup

Denis Dovgopoliy’s Experience

• Executive Team Member

  Innovative Breakthrought 2009 Competition

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Inovation Breakthrough Startup Contest is a national event in a form of contest which last from April 1 to October 22. We provide participants of the contest with consultancy and insights into specifics of technology business and commercialization process as well as connect them to the right people through our extensive business network. There are two main target auditoria eligible for the contest: entrepreneurs who are on their first stages of developing technology businesses and innovators who need support to commercialize their ideas. During the contest we collect applications and work with participants to form a qualitative pool of the most promising startups and bring them to investors on the road show in October 2009 as well as through our invention disclosure system

• Advisory Board Member

  P-Navigator

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

  P-Navigator is the unified Internet/Enterprise/Desktop search and business intelligence tool for information discovery and analysis. It runs on top of existing search engines and data repositories and provides a one stop semantics-centered toolset for information and knowledge management professionals (I&KM's).

• Co-Founder

  Startup Crash Test

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  December 2008 — Present (8 months)

  Series of events in 2009 aimed to stress test selected software startups' market strategy, business model, distribution, roadmap, etc. We anticipate to gather a wide range of startup professionals to provide presenting startups with practical feedback and advise. Moreover we believe such venues could serve as a screening and investment vehicle for local angels and VC's thus creating opportunities for both investment and enterpreneural community.

• Organizer 2008, 2009

  Investor Day Central & Eastern Europe

  (Education Management industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  As part of the Blogcamp CEE 2008, we will organize an Investor Day. Among its participants, we would welcome interested in the TMT (Telecommunications, Media, and Technologies) entrepreneurs and investors*.
  
  During the Investor Day, a contest of companies of two categories will take place:
  
  * Seed Stage (seeking financial support of Euro 50,000 -150,000)
  * Early Growth Stage (seeking financial support of Euro 500,000 -1,000,000)
  
  The competition will use the Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD) Conference principles, please refer to the competition page for details.
  
  The Investor Day participants will have a number of unique opportunities

• Vice President of Business Development

  SenderOK

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  SenderOK is a free, easy-to-use software program that will help you become more efficient while working with email in Outlook 2007 and the most popular Web mail services (Yahoo, Gmail, HotMail).
  Now in BETA see www.senderok.com

• Partner, Managing Director

  BayView Innovations

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  Main direction of activities:
  - consulting in Venture Capital and High-Tech area for Ukrainian startups (business development, business plan, executive summary, presentation preparing),
  - attracting investment to Ukrainian High-Tech startups from Silicon Valley (angel, seed, round A),
  - offshore software development consulting (finding subcontractors in Ukraine),
  - contract R&D project management,
  - High-Tech projects searching, evaluating, incubating,
  - Silicon Valley tours organization (for entrepreneurs, investors, engineers),
  - M&A Consulting in Ukraine IT, Internet and New Media fields
  - due diligance

• Executive Committee member - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

  Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  Despite the significant scientific and innovation potential of the Former Soviet republics, the gap still exists between the technology entrepreneurship in these countries and the global market. SVOD conference is the only event of its kind bringing dozens of high-tech innovators from Russia and Ukraine and other FSU countries together with US sources of capital. On the one hand, it introduces American venture capital community to ideas, technologies, and entrepreneurial talent that come out of universities and research labs in the Former Soviet Union. On the other, SVOD provides an unparalleled opportunity for the Russian and Ukrainian entrepreneurs to commercialize their ideas globally, learn American venture fundraising practices, acquire necessary business acumen and skills, meet US investors, and create partnership ties with Silicon Valley’s ecosystem.
  
  www.svod.org

• Executive Team Member

  AmBAR

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  AmBAR is a non-profit business association of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, engineers, lawyers and other professionals with headquarters in Silicon Valley. Started as an organization of expatriates from Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries that are involved in technology businesses in the United States, AmBAR has grown into a large network in which innovators and entrepreneurs of all origins can exchange ideas and business contacts. The association was launched in 2002 by a group of business professionals and entrepreneurs, representing leading Silicon Valley companies: Sun Microsystems, Intel Capital, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
  
  The organization is also dedicated to accelerating access to capital for innovative projects and developing technology partnerships between Russia, Ukraine and other FSU countries and the United States.
  
  www.ambarclub.com

• Trainer

  Self Employed

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  "Introduction to Technology Entrepreneurship" 5 hrs
  "Introduction to Angel Investment" 6 hrs

• Judge 2006-2009

  BIT Competion

  (Education Management industry)

  December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  bit-online.ru

• Vice President of Business Development

  Hippocrat

  (Medical Practice industry)

  May 2007 — April 2009 (2 years)

  Steath mode

• Investment Project Day Organizer

  Internet-Ukraine 2009 Conference

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  February 2009 — April 2009 (3 months)

  23rd of April 2009, Kiev, Ukraine
  
  3 Panels:
  "How to rise round. Entrepreneurs point of view"
  "How to rise round. Investors point of view"
  "Enterpreneural Education in High-Tech"
  4 Keynotes
  10 Startup Presentation
  
  http://internet-ukraine.com/investment%20projects (Rus)

• Organizer

  Silicon Valley Best Practices. Kiev Master Classes

  (Education Management industry)

  June 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  BayView Innovations is proud to announce seminar series for venture investors, scientists and entrepreneurs «Silicon Valley Best Practices. Kiev Master Classes».
  Paticipation: Seminar participation with mandatory pre-registration.
  We started new program new education program for startups "Startup Crash Test" see www.startup.klub.ua

• Mentor at SeedCamp Western Europe

  Seedcamp

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  February 2008 — May 2008 (4 months)

  At Seedcamp, we believe Europe has the talent, the role models, and the capital founders need to succeed. We want to provide a catalyst for the next generation of great entrepreneurs and help you take risks, think big, and succeed. Participating in Seedcamp will give you enormous validation and access to a world-class network of advisors to help you with every aspect of your business, plus a direct route to seed and venture capital.

• Chairperson, Speaker, Partner, Panel Moderator

  TMT Executive Seminar Kiev '08

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)

  February 2008 — March 2008 (2 months)

  Warsaw Stock Exchange and MCI Management kindly invite you to Central and Eastern Europe’s most exciting conference for innovative technology entrepreneurs and ICT executives, local and regional VC's and angel investors as well as media people and industry opinion leaders.
  
  The topics to be covered are emerging trends and opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe and developments of fast-growing and innovative industries such as new media and internet, new technologies, telco and related opportunities for the Ukrainian growing market.
  
  http://www.tmtevents.eu/

• Speaker

  UA Web 2008 Conference

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)

  March 2008 — March 2008 (1 month)

  See details at http://uaweb.in.ua/

• Ukrainian Partner

  Emerging Markets Private Equity Conference

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

  March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

  International Council of Institutional Investors ("ICII") is pleased to announce the 2nd annual Emerging Markets Private Equity Conference (EMPEC 2007), which will take place on June 4-5, 2007 at the Congress Center of the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry, located in the center of Moscow. EMPEC 2007 will build upon the success of last year’s event, providing unique insights and opportunities with respect to private equity, venture capital and real estate investments in emerging markets of Russia and CIS republics.
  http://www.empec.org/2007/

• Ukrainian Partner

  Moscow Venture Forum

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

  February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

  The Moscow Venture Forum - the combination of deal-flow and fundraising processes in Russian venture industry - will take place 20-21 June.
  
  The best twenty-five emerging Russian companies will represent themselves on the Forum. This twenty-five companies selected out hundred by specially invited western VCs and packed well by Russian business angels.
  
  The company summaries will be sent to the VCs the month before the Forum so you can discover everything about them and come to Forum for closer acquaintance and negotiations.
  
  The presentation day (SIPO Forum) is invite-only event attracts a group of no more than fifty international VCs with various technology focuses.
  
  Besides, Moscow Venture Forum is a great event for connections and Russian hi-tech business approach. More than 300 attendees (investors, entrepreneurs, trendmakers, professionals) are expected.
  
  http://sipo.ru/eng/

• Co-Organizer

  Ukrainian Executive Study Tour to Best Silicon Valley Companies

  (Education Management industry)

  January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)

  (http://ambarclub.org/node/62)
  Topic of the visit: Brand New Informational Age. How to meet new challenges.
  Type: Open visit. Participants from different companies. You will visit best and most innovative companies of Silicon Valley. This is first unique tour to the heart of IT industry with oportunity to get wisdom from leaders that brought rules, introduce standarts and show new vision to business community.
  Comanies to visit: Google, Intel, Cisco, Sun, LinkedIn, Symantec. DFJ and Asset Management Company. AmBar and Software Development Forum. Meetings with numbers of people from Silicon Valley.

• Co-owner

  Mobile Marketing Research (MMR) Agency

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Market Research industry)

  January 2003 — January 2007 (4 years 1 month)

  MMR is project, which focused on Ukrainian Mobile Market and provide any type of research.

• Managing Director

  Center for Innovation Development

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  July 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 5 months)

  CID is member of TECHINVEST group (www.techinvest.com.ua), works closely with DFJ, UA HI-TECH Competition Manager, Technology business incubator management, Consulting, Training, Market researching, UA Startups Supporting

• Speaker

  Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum `2006

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2006 — October 2006 (1 month)

  Speech "Possibilities of attracting Silicon Valley investments into Ukrainian IT companies"

• Co-owner, CEO

  Profit Center

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 2003 — January 2006 (3 years 1 month)

  Profit center was a consulting company. Main areas of it activities were:
  - training for top using newest world training technologies specially adopted for Ukrainian and Russia business needs by our trainers team (for banks, insurance companies, media companies, distribution companies and other)
  - general management consulting for local companies with 20-100 employees
  - sales consulting, sales outsourcing, sales division building for small local companies with 5-15 sales staff
  - HR consulting, outourcing, HR division Building for any type of companies,
  - event management
  - CRM consulting, training, distribution and implementation

• Co-owner

  Conference "Client oriented company"

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

  May 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 9 months)

  Managing of Ukrainian Conference "Client oriented company", focused to HR managers, Tops and Sales Directors. Conference start every 6 month in Kiev

• Commercial director

  Novatek

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

  Novatech (part of one of famous Ukrainian IT company Tessart) was a consulting company, main areas of it operations were:
  - offshore software development
  - local IT consulting activities
  - training centers for TOP managers
  
  I was responsible for all commercial activities in local consulting market, developing training center, marketing, sales process, VIP sales

• CEO, Co-owner

  Mobilizator ltd

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years)

  Main areas of Mobilizator were:
  - GSM mobile handset delivering to Ukraine and Russia
  - CDMA WLL and mobile handset delivering to CDMA providers (we are working with Westech, Sumitomo, Qualcomm, Metrosvyaz)
  - Mobile store and dealer consulting
  - Mobile accessories delivering and making brand “Mobistyle”

• Commercial Director (marketing and sales)

  Ukrpage

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

  Ukrpage was a leading paging provider on Ukrainian market. Ukrpage has 21 branch offices in Ukraine and was invested by US companies.
  I was responsible for:
  - Building and optimization sell process
  - Marketing and advertising
  - Developing strategies for new products and markets
  - Dealers network building

• IT Director

  Perspectiva

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Construction industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years)

  Perspektiva was building corporation, which operated on Russia, Ukraine, GB, Switzerland and Luxemburg.
  I was responsible for all activities in IT (IT infrastructure development) and ERP systems (I structured deal with SAP regarding R/3 licensing and implementation, business process description and reengineering (with IMB) and deal with IBM regarding AS400 supplying)

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