George Gens is one of those top executives who determine the trends of the contemporary Russian IT market evolution. Founded by him in 1989 LANIT was one of the first private companies in Russia. Today it is among one of the companies of Russia that play the leading role in a lot of core computer-industry spheres. Having started as a software distributor (in 1989 LANIT became the first Novell official partner in the USSR) George Gens successively and steadily developed the comprehensive IT company. His remarkable business capabilities and fundamental knowledge on economics (he received first MS and then PhD degree in economics at the Moscow State University) proved to be useful to him in order, when launching and controling the fast growing enterprise.
Today LANIT Group (Laboratory for New Information Technologies) is a leading IT services provider throughout Russia and CIS. LANIT is a diversified group of companies with an extended network of local offices, subsidiaries and engineering centers. The head company - LANIT and five other companies within the group are located in Moscow, while the branches and affiliates operate in St.Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Barnaul, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, Tver, Penza, Ekaterinbugr, Kiev (the Ukraine), Tashkent (Uzbekistan). LANIT is Russia's largest systems integrator company and a supplier of solutions from over 200 of the world's leading providers of hardware, software and services. The total revenue of the LANIT group in 2007 amounted to USD 1,266 billion.
Key IT competences of LANIT group are: IT products distribution (hardware & software), IT and network system integration, software development, CAD/CAM system implementation, ERP and BPM solutions, IT consulting, business process reengineering, IT education and training. George Gens and the company he created have always been a Russian channel to the latest achievements of the global information industry. LANIT, for example, was not only the first Novell distributor but also a company which was the first to present the technologies of Baan, Hyperion Software and other technologies to Russian users. Nowadays LANIT is a direct business-partner of more than 60 world-leading vendors.
George Gens' strategic goal is to transform the company to a full-fledged system integrator meeting the requirements of both Russian and Western standards. LANIT today is actively mastering professional consultancy and outsourcing services, Western-style project planning and administration.
Biography Facts:
• Born in Moscow in 1954. Graduated from the famous Moscow school, which provided profound knowledge in Mathematics, then graduated from the Moscow State University, the Department of Economics;
• Ph.D. in Economics, the author of more than 60 scientific papers, including 10 publications abroad;
• Since 1976 worked for the Scientific Research Institute of Automation in Nonindustrial Sphere, was gradually promoted from an acting junior research fellow to the Head of the Expert Systems Division;
• In 1989 founded and became the Head of LANIT (Laboratory of New Information Technologies), one of the first market-oriented companies fully dedicated to information technologies;
• Academician of the International Academy of Informatization (General Consultative Status at the Economic and Social Council of the UN);
• Certificated Project Director - certificate IPMA Level A (the highest);
• Leader of numerous polls and rating studies, a major Russian business figure.
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