Vladimir Yankov, CEO and Founder

Dr. Yankov, CEO, a member of the Board of Directors of Nanooptic Devices, LLC, is the NOD Founder and the DPH technology inventor.
Vladimir graduated from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, worked in many areas of theoretical physics including nuclear fusion, plasma and nonlinear physics. Vladimir was a Principal Scientist with the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute in Moscow, served on Editorial Boards of scientific journals, and authored over 100 of scientific publications.

After years in fundamental physics Vladimir moved to a Wall Street hedge fund, where he successfully applied his knowledge of theoretical physics to development and computerization of optimal investment strategies. Several years ago he started his own company Silver Birch Capital, LLC, whose market neutral strategy consistently delivers double digit returns to investors and where he is the CEO and Chairman.

A visionary with team building capabilities, before NOD Vladimir also founded Optera (renamed later VyOptics), a telecom start up, and served three years as the company CEO.

Dr. Ivonin graduated from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology with M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics. He holds Ph.D. in Physics from Uppsala University, Sweden. Igor authored over 30 scientific papers. Igor has actively participated in the development of the DPH technology and led efforts on creating unique software for DPH components generation and simulation.

Prof. Alexander Goltsov graduated from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MIPT) with M.Sc. in Physics in 1975. He also received his Ph.D. in Physics from MIPT in 1989 and Doctor of Science degrees in Physics from the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute in 1999.
Alexander’s professional appointments include high prestige positions at Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Fusion Researches (TRINITI), such as Director of Optical Research Division, Head of Plasma Physics Laboratory, and Professor of Physics at MIPT. During last decade he was several times invited to Princeton University as a Visiting Scientist and worked there 5-8 months per year. In 2001-2002 he worked as Senior Research Scientist on Digital Planar Holography problem at Optera, Inc. (later Vyoptics), Allendale, NJ, USA.
Alexander is a world-wide well respected experimental physicist with research interests in the fields of lasers, integrated optics, spectroscopy, nano-photonics, high temperature plasma, inertial confinement fusion, laser-plasma interaction; corpuscular, optical, and X-ray methods for high-temperature plasma diagnostics with high temporal and spatial resolution, femtosecond-adaptive CARS, and three-wave mixing in non-linear crystals. He teaches experimental physics at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology.

With 30 years of experience in research and more than 100 publications, Alexander has been a crucial contributor in the DPH technology development. Currently, he leads the experimental department of NOD.

Vladimir Yakushev, the Chairman of Board of Directors of Nano-Optics Devices, LLC, is the Managing Partner of S-Group Capital Management. He started his career as an Associate Principal of McKinsey &Company in 1998 and was promoted to a Junior Partner of the company in 2002. In 2003 Vladimir became an Executive Director in Joint-Stock Company "Severstal-Resurs", where he took part in the founding of the management company, development of strategy and company assets. As an Executive Director at "Severstal-Resurs" Mr. Yakushev conducted extensive business development projects to achieve superior volume growth at company's major producing subsidiaries.

Vladimir Yakushev is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a US laser-optics company "Spectralus" and a member of the Board of directors of TUI AG.
Vladimir graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and holds MBA degree from INSEAD Business School (France).

Alexey Khudyakov is an independent member of Board of Directors. As Vice President of Altimo, a leading Russian investment company, he is managing investments in mobile and fixed-line communications in Russia, the CIS, and Turkey. He is a non-executive member of the Boards of Directors of Turkcell and Kyivstar, the respective leaders of Turkish and Ukrainian mobile markets, and an independent non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of High River Gold Mines, a Canadian gold mining company with operations in Russia and Africa.
Prior to joining Altimo, Alexey worked for Alfa Bank and for McKinsey & Co. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and holds MBA degree from INSEAD.

Andrei Zabulonov, is a Director of S-Group Capital Management responsible for business development and portfolio management. Andrei's career began in the strategy and business development department at LUKOIL. Prior to joining SGCM, Andrei was Head of the strategy group at Severstal-Resurs, where he was responsible for strategy and internal business development projects. He worked on all Severstal's major mining deals, including optimization of the company's asset portfolio in coal and Severstal's IPO.

S-Group Capital Management (SGCM) is a Private Equity & Venture Capital firm based in Moscow, Russia. The firm is backed by Alexei Mordashov, key shareholder and CEO of a large international steel company Severstal.

SGCM's investment focus is threefold:

• Private equity investments in fast growth companies,
• Venture capital investments in early stage companies with high growth potential, mostly in new technologies,
• Strategic investments in companies working in infrastructure, consumer goods, tourism, media/entertainment sectors and in financial institutions.