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Dmitri Simonenko

Dmitri Simonenko

Dmitri Simonenko

President and CEO of Innalabs Inc; Founder, Plesk

Mr. Simonenko is the founder, president and CEO of Innalabs Inc. – the technology incubator for inertial systems and devices with offices in USA, Russia and Ukraine. All of the developing technologies where invented within the company or acquired in CIS countries.

Previously, Mr. Simonenko served as CEO and co-founder of Plesk, the leader in server automation software. Following his success at Plesk, and subsequent sale of his company to SW Soft (now Parallels), he run worldwide company operations as Executive Vice President.

Mr. Simonenko holds more than 10 patents in different fields.

Mr. Simonenko earned his degree in electrical engineer from George Mason University and was involved in the RF industry for over eight years, including work with network design and optimization of PCS technologies.

Testimonials

It’s a great conference and it brings together great content from really terrific speakers like we just had and then a network of really interesting entrepreneurs.

Andy Tsao

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.

Richard Guha

President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.

Vish Mishra

Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners ($600M under management)

I am delighted to participate in and sponsor SVOD. It is particularly gratifying at this stage of my professional career to be able to support this unique organization and give back to the high-tech community. Looking back, I regret not having the benefits of SVOD network early on, when I really needed it! It is wonderful to see the new startups taking advantage of this very special forum.

Mike Sandler

CEO of Epiphan

Great conference, interesting presentations and most important, relevant participants with concrete ideas and tremendous willingness to mentor and help startups.

Adi Bittan

Founder & CEO, OwnerListens & Stanford MBA

The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.

Ron Conway

SV Angel

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

Thank you for the opportunity to present Driveway at SVOD. It gave us much needed exposure to the wide investor community. Combining the pitch preparation classes with the presentation content guidance, we came out strong and confident from the podium. During the conference we had a chance to speak to many investors and industry leaders resulting in a very valuable feedback.

Jake Diner

Driveway Software