Anatoly Karachinsky President of the ibs group of companies. Current publications. Budget-intensive modernization according to Alexei Popov

2007, Anatoly Karachinsky and Leonid Makaron, head of the Pronto-Moscow holding, sailing regatta

Anatoly Karachinsky was born on July 12, 1959 in Moscow.

Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in system engineering.

From 1981 to 1986 worked at the Computing Center at.

From 1986 to 1988 worked as the director of the Russian branch of the Austrian company Prosystem (computer equipment).

Since 1988 - technical director of the joint venture "Intermikro".

1992: Founding of IBS

In 1992, Anatoly left Intermikro and, together with Sergey Matsotsky, decided to do business "the way you want, and the way it is right." In exchange for a promise not to become a direct competitor (that is, not to sell office equipment), the novice entrepreneur received a kind of “compensation” from former employers - the opportunity to independently implement the project received back in Intermikro.

1992-1997 - President of IBS.

Since 1997 Karachinsky has been the President of IBS Group Holding.

In the late 1990s, there was a rapprochement between IBS and the Yukos oil company. In 1998, IBS won the Yukos tender for maintenance and support of the entire IT infrastructure of the oil holding. Already in 2000, the entire infrastructure complex of the Moscow segment of the YUKOS corporate network (more than 1,500 users) was serviced by IBS specialists. The corporate network was also managed in 24 regions of the Russian Federation (about 7,000 users) and about 200 filling stations of the customer were supported.

This project ended in 2001 with an agreed procedure for exiting outsourcing and the transfer of the completed infrastructure for supporting information systems to NK Yukos for further independent operation.

Meanwhile, cooperation between IBS and Yukos was shaken by conflicts at the personnel level. Sergey Shashurin, in 1997-99 who worked as the director of the department for working with enterprises in the oil and gas industry at IBS, in December 2000 he moved to the position of first vice president of the subsidiary system integrator of Yukos - Sibintek (in early 2003 he became president of Sibintek, where he worked until 2008). At the same time, Ilya Ponomarev, who worked as the IT director of Yukos and created Sibintek, together with the team of Sibintek-owned venture capital firm Arrava, moved to IBS in January 2002, where he took the post of vice president for strategic projects. Ponomarev worked at IBS for about 1.5 years, after which he entered politics and became a member of the State Duma.

In addition, as the Kommersant newspaper wrote in 2002, Sibintek began to experience difficulties with the implementation of a number of projects, because Marat Yarullin, General Director of Sibinteka's subsidiary Imeco, took up business development at IBS as a freelancer.

Karachinsky is known for hosting the first meeting of Russian IT businessmen with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2001. It was said that in the early 2000s, Karachinsky applied for the post of Minister of Information Technologies, but lost in the hardware fight to Leonid Reiman.

As Svoi Biznes magazine notes (June 2007), Karachinsky gives the impression of a rather modest person for his position. Anatoly Mikhailovich was considered the main lobbyist of the Russian IT industry (Secret Firmy, 2006).

At this time, the founder of the IBS group, Anatoly Karachinsky, prefers to spend his free time in the company of famous businessmen, politicians, athletes and musicians (see a selection of photos). However, not all businessmen with whom Karachinsky meets "without a tie" become reliable partners of IBS.

Regarding the informatization of the United Confectioners holding (with its head Artem Kuznetsov, Anatoly Karachinsky plays golf and sails on a yacht), two major projects are known - the introduction of an ERP system and an EDMS. IBS did not take part in any of them. The integrator in the first project was BDO Unicon, in the second - Digital Design.

In 2012, Anatoly Karachinsky became the only representative of the IT business who was included in the composition for preparing proposals for the formation of the Open Government system in the Russian Federation.

Since the early 2010s, he has been leaving the public field.

2019: Sale of Luxoft for $2 billion

On January 7, 2019 the American IT service provider DXC Technology announced acquisition for $2 billion of Luxoft Holding, subsidiary of IBS Group Holding. According to the terms of the deal, the main owners of Luxoft, Anatoly Karachinsky and Sergey Matsotsky, receive $655 million for their stake. Read more about the deal.

Quotes and interviews

About entrepreneurship

According to Karachinsky, a businessman must constantly invent something and be prone to risk. An entrepreneur must be a creative thinker. However, he can be a bad manager. So, for example, I consider myself, first of all, an entrepreneur and, to a lesser extent, a great manager” (“The Secret of the Firm”, 2006).

I am convinced that a leadership position most often involves not reducing work, but increasing it. “A leadership position implies a high level of commitment to a much wider range of issues. And these commitments are one of the best incentives to work.”

On plans to create a national OS (July 2010)

I would start with a question: can someone create an OS in Russia? Usually, governments all over the world work with those companies that have proven their success in the market. I do not know of any Russian company that would demonstrate impressive success in the Russian or foreign market. When I talk about success, I mean that it sold and then maintained at least 100,000 users on the open market. This is the first thing that is not clear to me in this project.

Secondly, any such investment must be economically calculated. But so far I have not seen any feasibility study for the project that would take into account the costs of switching to a new system. The amount of costs depends on the amount of money that needs to be spent on creating a new operating system, building distribution and training channels, and a support system. Huge money also needs to be invested in the adaptation of application software, as well as in the adaptation of a number of existing systems working for clients (in particular, for the state). In the absence of a feasibility study, these plans are reminiscent of the idea of diverting the northern rivers to the south, or the idea of oil production at the North Pole.

Thirdly, it seems to me that the development of any traditional OS is simply not relevant now. We are on the threshold of huge technological changes in the world. In two years, the concept of OS will fundamentally change, as will the computer devices themselves that we will use. The whole world will switch to other principles of information processing, other technological platforms. This will happen quite quickly, within 2-3 years. The emergence of clouds, rapid migration to new principles of mobility, fundamental changes in telecom. Dying of a heavy "client", which personified the OS, migration of applications and most services to the "cloud". All this assumes that the world is going in one direction - forward, and we are looking back.

Therefore, taking into account all these comments, it seems to me, it seems to me that the issue requires a deeper and more professional approach.

Family

Married, has two sons. Quote: I really like computers, I have 6 computers at home for the whole family.

Hobby

Golf, skiing, yachting, tourism, literature. Love the songs with the guitar. He is the president of the Pirogovo yacht club.

Supports the bard movement.

Anatoly Karachinsky - President of IBS Group. He plunged into entrepreneurship even under the USSR, becoming in 1988 the sales director of an Austrian company. And in 1992 he already founded his second enterprise - IBS. A businessman knows how to keep his finger on the pulse and is not afraid to implement effective, in his opinion, ideas for the IT sector. This is the secret of his success.

short biography

FULL NAME: Karachinsky Anatoly Mikhailovich.
Date of Birth: July 12, 1959 (Moscow).
Education: higher, Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, computer course, Faculty of Technical Cybernetics, specialty - system engineer.
Business start date/age: 1988 (aged 29).
Type of activity at the start: technical director at JV Intermicro.
Current activity: President of IBS Group Holding.
Current state:$850 million (for 2017).

In 2017, Anatoly Karachinsky, President of IBS Group, was included in the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes magazine, ranking 121st in the ranking. His fortune is estimated at 850 million dollars. The top manager and entrepreneur started doing business with foreign partners back in Soviet Russia, then continued during the collapse of the USSR, withstood the Yeltsin rule and is currently increasing the turnover of IBS Group.

"Intermicro". First business

The future millionaire Anatoly Karachinsky entered the business in the late 80s, during the Gorbachev era, when the USSR opened its borders to the West. In 1986, he met two future partners: Sergei Matsotsky and Pavel Biskubsky. And then Pavel, after his return to Europe, met with Hans Heifer, an Austrian businessman. Together they came up with a new business - the sale of personal computers in the USSR. For assistance, they turned to Anatoly, promising him to put a personal PC at home. At that time, Karachinsky was already well-known in the field of programming and, after hesitation, he willingly accepted the offer. So Anatoly began to sell Prosystems products and remained the sales director of this company until 1988.

However, it would not be so easy to organize the entry of an Austrian company into the USSR market if there was no patron from the top of power. The project was supervised by Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. And at the same time, Karachinsky undertook to establish the publishing process of the German magazine Burda Moden, using modern computer technologies at that time. For this, he just signed an agreement with Prosystems. This also subsequently helped to legitimize activities with a foreign company, and then a joint enterprise Intermicro was organized with VNII PVTI (All-Russian Research Institute for Computer Technology and Informatization Problems). The first customers were not long in coming: the largest printed publications were equipped with personal PCs, among them Kommersant and Izvestia. Then we signed a supply contract for AvtoVAZ.

So, closer to the age of 30, Anatoly Karachinsky became the technical director of the first joint venture with foreigners in the IT industry. The company was located in the center of the capital in an old mansion - a gift from the Soviet authorities. In the early 1990s, more than 300 people worked at Intermikro. The transactions were partly carried out on a barter basis: for example, the company received 70 vehicles from AvtoVAZ as payment for the supplied software.

“Having no experience of working according to Western standards, we began to build a semblance of a large Soviet enterprise with its own “subsistence economy”.

As Anatoly himself admits, the collapse of the USSR and the beginning of perestroika did not greatly affect the company and the well-being of employees. But he still wanted to change the company, he had many plans at that time ... However, for many reasons, in 1991 Karachinsky came to the conclusion that it was better to sell Intermicro. The Austrian partners were not opposed, they were only interested in an adequate price. But the sale did not happen, and in 1992 the entrepreneur left Intermicro for his new company Information Business Systems (subsequently renamed IBS) in order to come to grips with the automation of the banking sector. Then this direction seemed to him very promising.

IBS. Start

IBS was founded in 1992, Karachinsky came to it not alone, but with his like-minded people from Intermicro. In terms of turnover, the new company overtook the old one already in the first year, and during this time Sberbank became its regular client. Thanks to IBS, plastic cards and ATMs were introduced in many regions, which made remote service possible. However, IBS did not succeed in becoming the only company that is engaged in equipping the country's leading bank: part of the territory, including Moscow, was given to a competitor - IBM.

“At some point, IBM came to Sberbank in Moscow and signed a contract for $128 million. It’s hard to say why, but for some reason in the banking industry they always believe that there is always someone who will do everything better.”

Since 1994, it was decided to allocate resources to the development of another direction - the newly created Dealine division became the distributor of Dell, a global manufacturer of computers and components. Suppliers had special requirements for the delivery system, and for Russia this seemed like a big problem. As a result, Dealine developed its own logistics system, and in a year the company managed to become a leader in the industry. Thus, a balance was achieved in two areas of activity: in trade and integration. Crises in integration were overcome through trading activity, and vice versa.

And at the end of 1995-1996. Karachinsky received new investors: Citicorp bought a 10% stake for $6 million and AIG bought a 19% stake for $25 million.

Things were going well, but the 1998 default made itself felt ... All current activities fell, it became clear that it was necessary to expand beyond Russia, that only in this case it would be possible to avoid the consequences of the collapse of the economic system of any country.

Here is what Anatoly Karachinsky says about the 1998 default in IBS history:

IBS & Luxoft. History of success

The search for a new direction did not last long. Anatoly Karachinsky actively studied the programming market not only in the West, but also looked to the East. He was interested in the model of Indian companies: they produce software for export, and the businessman decided to offer to present Russia as a center for offshore programming. In 2000, a new company, Luxoft, was registered to implement the plan. She was engaged in implementing software from SAP around the world. Among the eminent customers of the company are Boeing (the largest aircraft manufacturer in the USA), IBM, Deutsche Bank.

A few years later, Karachinsky introduced V.V. Putin to the idea of export programming, for which he received approval and a little later the project for developing the concept of special economic zones, which was even approved in two readings ... But something went wrong, and the system failed. Not wanting to become part of this system, the businessman no longer turned to the authorities with such initiatives.

“The fewer entrepreneurs we have, the more government there will be in the economy, which, as a rule, is not an effective scenario.
There are not enough engineers in the world, but, unfortunately, this area of development is not being developed in our country either. We do not use it, because we have few engineers in our power.
It is necessary to change the prevailing stereotypes that you can go to the public service, do nothing special and be able to "master the budget."

In 2007, IBS turnover crossed the threshold of $1 billion. And in 2009, Depo Computers, the former Dealine, was sold, bringing at that time 60%. The company had good turnover, but minimal income.

IBS has been placing its shares on the stock exchange since 2005, and Luxoft's daughter entered it only in 2013. But from that moment on, its shares managed to grow in price several times. The company is growing and developing, opening new offices in Russia and abroad.

IBS Group today

The group of companies supplies comprehensive enterprise management systems (ERP) to control all the functions of the company. They are implemented at 45 of the 50 largest enterprises in Russia.
IBS also undertakes software development for a specific company.
IBS Group offices are located in 10 countries.
Software development is used in 16 business sectors.

Other Interests

Anatoly Karachinsky does not get hung up on any one activity, he and his associates generate new ideas, which later find expression in specific projects. So, for example, an entrepreneur has invested in more than one startup that works with media publications. One of them is the Medialogia company, which analyzes the mood of users: what readers are interested in, how they feel about a particular publication, which entries are most often quoted, etc. And the creation and launch of the News360 news aggregator even managed to receive a grant from Skolkovo in 1.5 million dollars!

State of Karachinsky according to Forbes

Awards, achievements, social activities

According to DATOR Top100 in 1994-1998. and according to Top-Profi in 1995-1999. was the most influential figure in the Russian computer business.
According to Expert RA, since 2004 IBS Group has been the first largest consulting group in Russia.
The first Russian businessman who was included in the list of "Stars of Europe" by Business Week magazine (2002).
In 1986 he became a co-author of the book by S. M. Zakharov "Personal Computer".
Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003, represented Russia in the international version of the competition in Monaco.

Has a membership:

Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
International Computer Club and International Children's Computer Club.
Club 2012.
Member of the "Innovative Development" subgroup of the working group on the formation of the "Open Government" system in Russia.

Personal

Master of sports of international class in sailing.

Sailing;
golf;
tourism;
skiing;
trips.

Married, two sons.

Summary

Anatoly Karachinsky undoubtedly has his own formula for success. Entrepreneurial instinct, deep knowledge of the IT sphere, acquaintance with influential people, the ability to build and implement plans, close communication with Western partners - all this allowed him to start entrepreneurship under the Soviets, survive in an era of devastation and expand the sphere of influence in modern Russia. With large foreign customers and shareholders, a network of offices in Russia and abroad, grants from the government, he protected his company and his wealth from all sides.

Founder of IBS

Anatoly Mikhailovich Karachinsky founded IBS together with partners in 1992. Today he is actively working to form a new information society in Russia and promotes the development of the country's economic potential in the field of high technologies.

Anatoly Karachinsky. Photo: Forbes/Yu. Chichkov

Journal "Business of Russia": Spend time with your children. Interview with Anatoly Karachinsky.

Anatoly Karachinsky is a member of the bureau of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), and is also the chairman of the RSPP committee on vocational training and professional qualifications.

Previously, he took part in the creation of the International Children's Computer Club and the International Computer Club. Over the years, he was a member of the Council for Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation, the Expert Council for Information Technologies under the Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation, the Expert Council for E-Education under the Committee on Education and Science of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the subgroup " Innovative Development" of the working group on the formation of the "Open Government" system in Russia.

Anatoly Karachinsky was the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the international company Luxoft, which in 2019 became part of DXC Technology.

Work experience before IBS

1988-1992, technical director at JV Intermikro.

1986-1988, manager, director of sales in Russia for Prosystem (Austria), which specialized in the supply of computer equipment.

1981-1986, employee of the Computing Center at the All-Union Research Institute of Railway Transport.

Education

Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, computer course at the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics. Specialty - system engineer.

Achievements and awards

In 2003, he became the first Russian businessman to win the Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 - Russia competition, established by Ernst and Young (EY) in 35 countries around the world. Represented Russia at the international round of the competition in Monaco.

He was included in the "iTop-100 of the Russian IT industry" in 2002 and 2003 (IONE project). According to the rating of the Association of Russian Managers, he is in the TOP-40 of the "1000 Most Professional Managers of Russia" rating.

In 2002, Anatoly Karachinsky became the first Russian businessman to be included in Business Week's "Stars of Europe" list, and was recognized as one of fifty leaders at the forefront of positive change in Europe.

According to the results of the annual Top-Profi'2000 survey, he was recognized as the person who showed the greatest activity in the development of the Russian computer market.

In 1994 he was awarded the "Quality Management Award" - a European award that recognizes the best managers in Europe.

In December 1993, he received the Euromarket Award from the European Center for Marketing Research EEC, an annual award given for achievements in technology, trade and production that contributed to the development of the European market. He was named one of the three persons who have the greatest influence on the formation of the Russian computer world.

He was repeatedly recognized as one of the most authoritative personalities of the Russian computer business (ratings "DATOR Top100" in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 and "TOP-PROFI" in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999).

"Ratings"

"News"

Luxoft plans to raise $80 million in New York

The head of IBS, Anatoly Karachinsky, finally decided to list Luxoft's subsidiary, a software developer, on the stock exchange. The IPO will take place in New York, the company wants to raise up to $80 million. The exact number of shares to be placed has not been determined. According to analysts, Luxoft needs to sell about 15% of its shares to get the desired amount.
link; http://www.rbcdaily.ru/media/ 562949987060546

Karachinsky got into the “oligarchs” according to the order, is friends with the American special services, aims for ministers and pours mud on Leonid Reiman

Perhaps the whole point is that Karachinsky recently proclaimed himself an oligarch, having made his way to the Kremlin meetings of big businessmen with Putin. Moreover, Anatoly Karachinsky got there, as they say, according to the order. The presidential administration asked why there would be no one at the meeting with Putin who would represent modern intellectual technologies. Such a person had to be found quickly, and the organizers of the meeting for some reason chose Karachinsky, although he is not a leading figure in his industry ...
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_25771.htm

"Case of Karachinsky", Kasyanov's sponsor

As it became known to “MK” from sources in law enforcement agencies, a new scandal may break out in the near future. And again - with political overtones. We are talking about the former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his friend - one of the Russian computer "kings" Anatoly Karachinsky. link: http://compromat.info/page_ 16317.htm

Budget-intensive modernization according to Alexei Popov

However, on the market, Alexey Popov is considered rather a protege of several large IT corporations, primarily IBS, one of the leaders in the domestic information technology and system integration industry. As you know, the controlling shareholder of IBS, Anatoly Karachinsky, back in the early 2000s. applied for the post of Minister of Information Technology and Communications. However, having failed in the apparatus struggle with the then Minister Leonid Reiman, apparently, he decided, in the end, to move his “little brother” to a high state position.
link: http://91.202.62.15/page_31163.htm

“I don’t do politics, only business”

“Not so long ago, Novaya Gazeta spoke about a strange situation that has developed around the figure of the head of one of the largest Russian IT companies - IBS - Anatoly Karachinsky. Recall that in a number of publications there was information that the businessman was allegedly accused of tax evasion, misappropriation of budget funds, even espionage and, what is most unpleasant, the ambitions of a candidate for the post of Deputy Minister of Communications. As we promised, Mr. Karachinsky agreed to comment on each of the points of the "accusation".
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=7256

Who crossed the road computer businessman Karachinsky

“The Yukos case naturally leads to the question “who is next?”. Naturally, idle commentators name oil workers and other children of the first wave of privatization in the forefront. However, it is possible that the head of the IBS company (software development and system integration) Anatoly Karachinsky is in danger of becoming the hero of the new "Kremlin" novel.
link: http://compromat.info/main/karachinskij/sboj.htm

Anatoly Karachinsky: Each person must create his own basket of mistakes

Anatoly Karachinsky, President of the IBS group of companies, was named one of the most authoritative personalities of the Russian computer business ten times (according to the DATOR Top-100 and TOP-PROFI ratings). He became the first Russian businessman to be included in the "Stars of Europe" list of Business Week magazine. He was awarded the "Quality Management Award" - an award that recognizes the best managers in Europe. The magazine "Personnel Management" could not pass by the brightest figure in the domestic information technology market. "Man-brand" Anatoly Karachinsky told us what to remember after the end of the crisis and the books of which writer inspired him to create the IBS empire.
link: http://www.ibs.ru/content/rus/577/5773-article.asp?archive=1

Anatoly Karachinsky: “Existing business models must die. It will be an impressive sight."

IBS Group President Anatoly Karachinsky believes that a radical redistribution may take place in the technology and information market in the coming years. New technologies can give rise to new monopolists. The computer market may change beyond recognition, mobile operators may become unknown firms - like those that manage sewers. Ahead is one of the largest industrial wars in the history of technology development, the head of one of the leading Russian IT holdings is convinced. He predicts which of the global corporations can become the winner in this war.
link: http://marker.ru/news/2100

Anatoly Karachinsky: “The West is surprised why we do not lobby for large orders through political channels”

Interview. According to the co-owner of IBS Group (No. 450 in the rating of billionaires "F"), officials will remain indifferent to the problems of high-tech companies as long as there are reserves of raw materials. Business can "escape" abroad.
link: http://www.finansmag.ru/96313/

Anatoly Karachinsky, President of the IBS group of companies, is the first and only Russian businessman included in the list of "Stars of Europe" published in the international magazine Business Week. The Stars of Europe is a list of "fifty leaders who are at the forefront of positive change in Europe". These are annually elected entrepreneurs, managers, public figures, officials, financiers who have made a significant contribution to the development of the economy, business, politics, and public life of their country. "Stars of Europe" are selected by an expert council, which includes journalists, editors and publishers of the magazine.
link: http://www.ibs.ru/content/rus/21/213-article.asp

Putin cut Karachinsky

The founder of IBS Anatoly Karachinsky, the only representative of the IT industry in the government commission on high technologies, was excluded from its composition. This happened after the commission was headed personally by Vladimir Putin instead of Sergei Ivanov.
link: http://www.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2010/03/16/382882

It's hard to be grey. IBS President Anatoly Karachinsky yesterday confirmed his intention to hold an IPO. But gray imports stand in the way of IT companies to publicity

The public offering will take place before the end of 2008 on the Russian platform, Karachinsky promised. According to him, the company is now worth $640 million. IBS has experience: in November 2005, it held a private placement, selling 33% of its shares for $113 million to Western funds.
link: http://www.comnews.ru/node/ 33070

Anatoly Karachinsky, IBS: "A venture capitalist does not think about the future, he thinks about how to make money"

The founder and CEO of IBS Group, Anatoly Karachinsky, is perhaps the most famous IT entrepreneur in Russia. Two deals that took place this fall - the sale of Depo Computers and a stake in Yandex - again attracted attention to him. How he will spend this money, what taxes should be for high-tech industries, and why Russia should not take a course towards Saudi Arabia - Anatoly Karachinsky told UNOVA about this.
link: http://unova.ru/2009/10/02/7924.html

IBS plans to sell Internet hypermarket "Softkey"

By the end of this year, IBS Group plans to sell the Softkey Internet hypermarket, Anatoly Karachinsky, president of IBS Group, told Interfax. “According to the results of 9 months of 2011 financial year, SoftKey is actually break-even and can grow strongly,” said Karachinsky. “But we are not interested in developing this direction.”
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