Tigran Oganesovich Khudaverdyan (russian: Тигран Оганесович Худавердян, hy, Տիգրան Հովհաննեսի Խուդավերդյան, Tigran Hovhannesi Khudaverdyan; born 28 December 1981) is a Russian businessman, former executive at

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N.V.

Early life

Born in

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in 1981, Khudaverdian graduated from the

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

, physics department in 2004. Before joining Yandex, he participated in developing internet projects and headed a web studio.

Career

Tigran Khudaverdyan joined Yandex in April 2006, as a project manager for portal services and technologies. Since then he has led several successful Yandex projects, including Yandex.Browser and Yandex.Navigator. From 2009 to 2012, he was Head of Division for Portal Products and Mobile Apps. Since 2012 he has been the Head of Direction for Yandex.Browser and

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and has been appointed Head of Product Development in 2013. He moved to the Yandex.Taxi business in 2015, and has served as chief executive officer of MLU B.V., ride-hailing and food delivery joint venture with

Uber Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), based in San Francisco, provides mobility as a service, ride-hailing (allowing users to book a car and driver to transport them in a way similar to a taxi), food delivery (Uber Eats and Postmates), package ...

, since its formation. In 2019 Tigran Khudaverdyan was appointed as Deputy CEO of Yandex N.V. and joined the company's Board of Directors. In 2019 he was featured in Young Global Leaders list initiated by the World Economic Forum. In 2020 he attended the

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in Davos as a speaker of "Inequality: A Barrier to Economic Growth" discussion. In March 2022 Tigran Khudaverdyan stepped down from his roles as executive director and deputy CEO at Yandex NV.

Personal life

Tigran is married and has five sons.

International sanctions

In March 2022, the European Union sanctioned Khudaverdyan as part of its package of economic penalties against Russia for the

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References

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