Galitsky Alexander - venture investor, founder of the Almaz Capital Partners fund. Member of the Supervisory Board of PGP Inc. and Parallels. For more than seventeen years he has been heading the ELVIS + company. In 1998, the Wall Street Journal included it in the top 10 hottest firms in Central Europe. This article will present a brief biography of the investor.
Beginning of work
Galitsky Alexander Vladimirovich was born in the Zhytomyr region (Ukraine) in 1955. Successfully graduated from Moscow University of Electronic Engineering, and later became a candidate of technical sciences.
Until 1992
At that time, Alexander Galitsky worked at the NGO ELAS, which dealt with satellite radio-electronic systems. At first, the young man was the chief designer of the direction. Then Alexander led the work on the creation of on-board computing facilities in the framework of the Salyut-90 program. In 1991, he founded his own company, ELVIS +.
As the general manager and president of the ELAS NGO center, Galitsky was responsible for the development and installation of software for spacecraft and satellites. Alexander Vladimirovich also oversaw the creation of data transmission systems and computer systems for the defense industry. Galitsky was the youngest director of two national programs: the creation of low-orbit data transfer systems and the production of on-board computers. They became a worthy response of the USSR to the strategic defense initiative of America.
1992
At the end of this year, Alexander Galitsky signed a contract with Sun Microsystems on joint technology development. The American company was impressed by the invention, which allows transferring data at a speed of 2 Mb / s between two satellites. A year later, Sun Microsystems acquired 10% of ELVIS + for $ 1,000,000.
Alexander Galitsky has attracted more than thirty million venture capital investments in another company of his own called TrustWorks. For a Russian company, this is still considered a unique achievement.
Alexander became a pioneer in the development of drivers for network software and wireless Wi-Fi systems. In his firm ELVIS +, he worked on new projects on this technology. And with Sun Microsystems, he actively introduced the manufactured FW / VPN products to the world market.
2008
This year, Alexander Galitsky founded the Almaz Capital Partners fund, in which about $ 80 million was invested (of which 60 were accounted for only by two companies - Sisko and Asset Management). The fund invested both in companies operating in global markets and in Russian enterprises with a “proven business model”. Among the supported Parallels firms are Sergey Belousov, publisher and developer of the games Alavar Entertainment and Apollo Project (social networks and communities).
In 2009, the Galitsky Fund invested in Yandex. And in a year to the Quick company (mobile video). In 2011, Diamond Capital Partners sold it to Skype for $ 150 million. Investing in Quick, according to Alexander, more than paid off all the investments of his fund.
Personal life
The hero of this article is married and has two children.
In his free time, Alexander is engaged in windsurfing, skiing, photography. Galitsky also likes to read books and listen to music. He speaks two languages - English and Ukrainian.