Eugene Goland
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Eugene Goland was born in 1970 in Saint-Petersburg. He is a founder of two technology companies with offshore operations. Eugene holds an Executive MBA from R.H. Smith.
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[edit] Mail.Ru period
In 1999, Eugene Goland co-founded Russia's premiere web-based portal, Mail.ru, which grew to 15 Million users. It became the first company in the segment to secure venture capital funding. Until the company became profitable in 2002, Goland managed to raise $7M in venture capital, acquired dozens of companies, and also established strategic partnerships with leading industrial companies.
Goland is a founder and chairman of OOBP.org (Offshore Outsourcing Best Practices), a vendor-independent professional community dedicated to increasing the efficiency of the offshore industry by facilitating knowledge sharing and documenting best practices.
During the three years as CEO of Mail.ru, Goland structured the company's operation to become the first profitable company in the sector.
[edit] DataArt period
In 1997, Goland founded DataArt, an offshore software outsourcing company. In 2004, DataArt grew to over a hundred and fifty employees, with three international offices.
[edit] Business
As President of DataArt, Goland recognized the potential of the offshore software market in 1997 and focused the company's strategy on assembling a technical team, addressing communication and project management issues. DataArt pioneered NY-based project management personnel and web-based project management tool in early 1998. The company has been profitable every fiscal year, never required venture funding and was voted the Best employer in the Russian IT sector in 2004.
The Mail.ru brand has achieved a staggering 100% recognition in its segment in less than two years. Since the market was in its infancy, Goland had initiated one of the first market research studies and managed most of it internally. Goland participated in the design and development of a web-based portal (Mail.ru), which became one of the most complex projects on the market. By the end of 2004, the portal provided a service to 15MM unique visitors per month and half a billion page views spanned over twenty service offerings. The project had been n the works for three years and involved a team of fifteen developers and four outsourcing companies.
He founded and managed two companies with Russian offices (in Moscow and St. Petersburg). Spent total of four months in DataArt's London office and four years in the New York office. In 1998 managed Singapore-based software project with an international team.
[edit] Publicity
Goland is a frequent speaker at internationally renowned global events, CEO/CTO/CIO Roundtables, Technology Conferences and Symposiums. He hosted and organized the Executive Technology Leadership Forum; the Teleconference Roundtable: Creation of Customer Value Through Globalization; the Leadership and Culture Change Enabled by Technology in Emerging Markets; a WIT off-shoring conference and CIO Community of Practice Meeting among others.
