Mikhail Parakhin Net Worth (2024) | wallmine

Mikhail Parakhin biography

Mikhail Parakhin serves as Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Parakhin is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of industry experience, particularly in the areas of AI and large-scale processing. He has lead teams of various sizes for some of the world’s leading tech companies. Mr. Parakhin joined Yandex as Chief Technology Officer in 2014, leading all technical teams globally for the company, applying his unique background in machine learning and coding, plus specializations in search, image processing, as well as handwriting and speech recognition algorithms. Mr. Parakhin has decided to leave his executive role at Yandex, effective August 2019. Prior to joining Yandex, Mr. Parakhin served in various roles at Microsoft, with most recent being the Head of the Bing Multimedia Search team from 2010 to 2014.The Board believes that it will benefit from Mr. Parakhin’s technical and managerial expertise and experience, and in particular his deep familiarity with the operations of the business, and has nominated him for appointment to ensure that the Company continues to benefit from his contributions. The Board proposes that Mr. Parakhin’s appointment be for an initial term of one year; this will help to ensure that roughly the same number of directors have terms ending each year.