Sergei Yakovlev
General director of Financial and Economical Informathion Service Interfax Information Services Group
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Sergei was born in 29 April 1971 in Moscow.
Graduated from Moscow State University Economics Faculty in 1993.
Candidate of Economic Sciences. MBA, Chicago Booth.
Worked in banking and brokering sector from 1994 to 1999.
From 1999 to present at the Interfax Group. General Director of Financial and Business Information Service, bringing together a group of leading companies in the field of financial and business news, risk management products and corporate databases, analysis and IR services. Led the team that created the SPARK database, which contains information about all Russian companies.
Responsible at Interfax for the joint venture with Dun & Bradstreet, a world leader in corporate information.