Russian Dotcoms on global expansion: Yandex Labs in Silicon Valley
Pavel as Common
Июн|21|2008
Yandex announced the formation of a U.S. technology and business development facility. The new organization, “Yandex Labs,” will be located in the San Francisco Bay area. Vishal Makhijani, formerly SVP and General Manager of Yahoo!’s Search Group, has been appointed as President and CEO of the new organization, reporting directly to Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex.
“We did not hesitate to go the extra mile to find this rare talent,” said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex, the parent company. “We are excited to add a leading technology and business veteran in Silicon Valley to the Yandex team. Vish and his group at Yandex Labs will help to develop and improve Yandex’s core technology capabilities including the quality of algorithmic search for the Russian audience.”
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