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  1. Arkady Volozh demonstrates Yandex's driverless car prototype to Vladimir Putin at Yandex HQ in 2017. Volozh is a serial entrepreneur with a background in computer science. After working at a state pipeline research institute, he started a small business importing personal computers from Austria.

  2. Jul 16, 2024 · After 25 years as Yandex CEO, he stepped down in June 2022 after being sanctioned by the European Union over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Those sanctions were lifted in March 2024.

  3. Jun 3, 2022 · Moscow–Amsterdam, June 3, 2022— Yandex N.V., a Dutch public limited company and one of Europe’s largest internet businesses, today announces that Arkady Volozh, the company’s co-founder, has stepped down with immediate effect from his positions as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Yandex N.V. and from his board and ...

  4. Mar 22, 2022 · It took 20 years for Arkady Volozh to build Yandex into Russia’s Google, Uber, Spotify, and Amazon combined. It took 20 days for everything to crumble.

  5. www.forbes.com › profile › arkady-volozhArkady Volozh - Forbes

    5 days ago · Volozh resigned as CEO and executive director of Yandex after the EU sanctioned him personally in June 2022. In February 2024 Yandex announced its Russian assets would be purchased by managers...

  6. Jul 16, 2024 · Once the darling of Russia’s internet scene, Volozh co-founded Yandex in 1997 during the global dotcom boom, ultimately creating a company that would dominate Russia’s online search market, list successfully on Nasdaq and at one point reach a market capitalisation of around $30 billion.

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  8. Dec 30, 2022 · In a message posted today on an internal company portal, he announced his departure and thanked long-time colleagues for helping to build “the best technology company in the country,” according to The Bell. “All these 30 years, we’ve been doing this together,” Volozh wrote.