Company Founders

Mr. Andrey Posdnyakov, Co-Founder, President

Mr. Posdnyakov has 19 years of professional programming experience, including 16 years in the digital video/audio field. His expertise includes both hardware and software systems and architectures. For the past thirteen years, he has served in a number of executive management, strategic business development and business planning positions. He holds an MS in Theoretical Physics.

Mr. Peter Gubanov, Co-Founder, VP Research & Development

Mr. Gubanov has 15 years of experience in complex software development, including software architecture, object oriented analysis and design, low-level device programming, microprocessor programming, image and video processing algorithms, distributed systems, Internet and Intranet application development, and 12 years of experience in project management. Professional interests include statistical image and video processing, image and video compression, mathematical statistics, and parallel computing. Tragically died under avalanche in Austria on March 2, 2007.

Dr. Vladimir Kalchikhin, Co-Founder, Ph.D.

Dr. Kalchikhin has more than 26 years of experience in computer-aided design and modeling of materials, development of multimedia applications and databases, image processing, software support of scientific devices and technical documentation creation. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Tomsk State University, Russia.

Management Team

Mr. Victor Shirshin, VP, Product Development

Mr. Shirshin has over 11 years of cumulative software development experience in a number of different areas, including: video processing, operating systems, database systems, and command & control systems. He has worked at a number of leading Russian hi-tech companies in management positions. Mr. Shirshin holds BSc degree from Tomsk University.

Mrs. Olesya Polovkova, Sales Director

5-year experience in international sales, in IT industry. Mrs. Polovkova holds an MS degree in Linguistics from Tomsk State University, Russia.

Dr. Alexey Polyakov, Director, SDK Development

Dr. Polyakov has more than 11 years of experience in computer-aided design software development for modeling of radio electronic devices, image and multimedia processing. He is author of four "programming graphics" books published in Russia and USA. Lecturer in Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics. He received his Ph.D. in technics from Tomsk Polytechnical University, Russia.

Mr. Andrey Shum, VP, Embedded System Development

19-year experience in IT business. 13-year experience in video compression technologies, system architecture design, object-oriented analysis and design for hardware and software. 8-years on top management positions.