Mr Andrey Kessel

KANDO id: 33306

Bio

Investment manager with Amadeus. Prior to joining Amadeus, gained substantial international experience in technology startups. Previous roles were predominantly commercial positions in software and telecommunications sectors in such companies as: Scala Business Solutions, a multinational business software company; PanTel Telecom, the eastern European subsidiary of KPN; and Nextra, an internet division of Telenor. Started his career at Baltic Communications, a Russian subsidiary of Cable & Wireless. A Russian native, is fluent in Russian and English and speaks basic Hungarian. Since joining the firm in 2003, has worked on a number of investments and has sat on the board of several portfolio companies as a non-executive director or observer. These include: Openbravo, a developer of open source software for business management; TeraView, a terahertz instrumentation company; and Solexa, which developed ultra-high throughput DNA sequencing technology and was acquired by Illumina in 2007; Staccato, a company delivering wireless USB chipsets; and Valista, a software company providing payments and offer management software to wireless and fixed line operators and ISPs. MBA from INSEAD and an MSc in Computer Science from the Air-Space Instruments University in Russia.


Career


ATZ Management


Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd

Private equity investor in growing technology enterprises
Email: [email protected]

Education