I graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Over the course of the last 25 years I have developed many successful enterprise projects for large pharmaceutical companies and the public domain, including PubChem and ChemSpider.I am one of the Founders of ChemZoo Inc, the developers of the ChemSpider website (www.chemspider.com). ChemSpider is an open access online database of chemical structures and property transaction based services to enable chemists around the world to data mine chemistry databases. The Royal Society of Chemistry acquired ChemSpider in May 2009. I worked as a consortium member and work package leader for the Open PHACTS IMI project (http://www.openphacts.org/). This focused on how drug discovery can utilize semantic technologies to link together public and private data for the drug discovery community. I have also worked as a member of the Pharmasea consortium (http://www.pharma-sea.eu/pharmasea.html) focused on bio-discovery research and the development and commercialization of new substances from marine organisms.I am the author of more than 50 peer reviewed papers and book chapters.I presently serve as CEO of a small startup Science Data Software which specializes in scientific data management, data analytics and Artificial Intelligence applied to solving chemical and biological problems.Specialties: Cheminformatics, Data Science, Leadership in the domain of free access Chemistry, Product and project management, Entrepreneur.