Edward Shenderovich
Edward Shenderovich (born January 7, 1976) is an American entrepreneur, publisher, educator and award-winning poet.
Business
[edit]Shenderovich was born in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). He came to the United States aged 14 in 1990, later becoming a naturalized American citizen. He attended Mira Mesa High School in San Diego and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.
In 2006, Shenderovich became a founding executive of online media company SUP and oversaw the company's strategic development, including the development of LiveJournal in Russia.[1][2]
In 2009, Shenderovich founded Kite Ventures, a venture investment company that led investments in Darberry (acquired by Groupon), Fyber (FRA:FBEN), Delivery Hero (FRA:DHER), Plated (acquired by Albertsons), Tradeshift, and others.
In 2015 he co-founded and became executive chairman of Knotel, a flexible real estate service, now owned by Newmark Group.
Shenderovich is currently the co-founder and CEO of Synonym, a New York-based company, building infrastructure for the bioeconomy.
Poetry
[edit]Shenderovich writes and publishes poetry in Russian. He has been published by many Russian journals and included in ‘’Ulysses Released: Contemporary Russian Poets Abroad (In Russian:2004)’’ edited by Dmitry Kuzmin. In December 2010, Samokat Publishing House released a collection of Shenderovich's children's poems. A new collection came out in January 2014. Translators of his poetry into English include Richard Wayne Chambliss.
In September 2015, Shenderovich's collection entitled "About One, Two, 3, 4 and 5" received an award at Biennial of Illustration Bratislava.
MiNE
[edit]In 2000, Shenderovich became a professor of business modeling at Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, Italy, and was named Fellow of the MiNE [1] program in 2004.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Edward Shenderovich". O’Reilly. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
- ^ a b "Edward Shenderovich". MiNE. Archived from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2007-11-21.