Oleg Rogynskyy
Script error: No such module "Draft topics".
Script error: No such module "AfC topic".
Oleg Rogynskyy (Ukrainian: Олег Рогинський; Russian: Олег Рогинский; born 1987 in what is now Dnipro, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur who founded People.ai in San Francisco, CA and leads it as the CEO.[1][2][3]
Early life and career[edit]
Rogynskyy was born in the town of Dnipro (then Dnepropetrovsk), Ukraine. At 16 years old, he moved to the United States, where he attended Boston University. He founded Semantria, that developed software to analyze text data on social media, and later sold the company to Lexalytics.[2] In 2016, he founded People.ai in San Francisco. As of 2021, the company employed over 250 people in offices across the US, the UK and Ukraine.[4]
Rogynskyy's early life, career and leadership style were covered in depth by the Financial Times in the FT Series "Leading in a crisis".[2]
Rallying the tech community for Ukraine[edit]
In the months before the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, as Russia deployed troops near Ukraine, Rogynskyy developed corporate risk management strategies, such as incentives for his company's Ukrainian employees to temporarily relocate to safer areas abroad.[2][5] As the invasion unfolded, he identified internet connectivity and battlefield content management as key information technologies needed by the Ukrainian military.[6][7] Rogynskyy coordinated the adoption of satellite internet in Ukraine as well as customization of existing software to improve unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, real-time transfer and processing of UAV-based images, and the relaying of targeting information to field artillery units - technologies that could give Ukrainian defenders an asymmetric advantage over the numerically superior Russian army.[7] In late 2022, Rogynskyy was credited by Time for having "organized the support from the tech world pouring into Ukraine".[8] President Volodymyr Zelensky honored Rogynskyy with the Order of Merit (Ukraine) 3rd degree[9] "for significant personal contributions to international cooperation, support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine..."
References[edit]
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid (May 21, 2019). "People.ai, the predictive sales startup, raises $60M at around $500M valuation". Tech Crunch.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Jacobs, Emma (August 20, 2022). "Oleg Rogynskyy of People.ai: 'I had a gut feeling that a war was going to start'". Financial Times.
- ↑ Nishant, Niket (August 11, 2021). "Mubadala co-leads $100 mln capital raise for software firm People.ai". Reuters.
- ↑ Chubatiuk, Ann (January 13, 2021). "People.ai: how to find an investor at Burning Man and raise sales by 40%". UCluster.
- ↑ Somerville, Heather (March 20, 2022). "Ukraine Tech Startups Pivot From Software Code to Rescue Plans". The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ Dave, Paresh (March 24, 2023). "Ukrainians' Google Searches Reveal a Year of Fear—and Hope". Wired.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Tett, Gillian (July 21, 2022). "Inside Ukraine's open-source war". Financial Times.
- ↑ Vick, Karl (December 7, 2022). "2022 Person of the Year: The Spirit of Ukraine". Time Magazine.
- ↑ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №595/2022 Про відзначення державними нагородами України". ПРЕЗИДЕНТ УКРАЇНИ ВОЛОДИМИР ЗЕЛЕНСЬКИЙ, Офіційне інтернет-представництво (in українська). 2022-08-23. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
This article "Oleg Rogynskyy" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Oleg Rogynskyy. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
