Oleg Rogynskyy
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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.[1][2] He is currently the CEO of People.ai, which reached a $1.1B valuation in 2021[3] and employs over 250 people. The company has offices in Kyiv, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Atlanta, and New York.[4]
Rallying the tech community for Ukraine
In the months before the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, as Russia deployed troops near Ukraine, Rogynskyy encouraged his Ukrainian employees to temporarily relocate abroad.[2][5] Later, as the invasion unfolded, he realized the value of modern information technologies at the battlefield and started helping his friends at the front lines, while marshalling resources of the Technology Community in the West. Adapting and customizing existing software to improve drone navigation, transfer and process battlefield images in real time, and relay targeting information to artillery units – ideas developed with Rogynskyy's coordination – gave Ukrainian defenders an asymmetric advantage needed to outwit and outfight the numerically superior Russian army.[6] In late 2022, Rogynskyy was credited by Time for having "organized the support from the tech world pouring into Ukraine".[7] President Volodymyr Zelensky honored Rogynskyy with the Order of Merit (Ukraine) 3rd degree[8] "for significant special merits in the promotion of inter-state collaboration, support of the sovereign sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, significant contribution to the popularization of the Ukrainian state in the world."
References
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid (May 21, 2019). "People.ai, the predictive sales startup, raises $60M at around $500M valuation". Tech Crunch.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ 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.
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