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Leadership Team

Nick Kurayev

Nick Kurayev

Chief Executive Officer

Nick leads ScienceSoft with respect and genuine care for each of our employees, customers, and business partners. He firmly believes that only honesty and ethical conduct can drive consistent and lasting business success.

Nick joined ScienceSoft in 1997 when the company was only eight years old. His combination of talent, visionary thinking, and diligence quickly led to his promotion to the position of CEO. Under his leadership, ScienceSoft has changed its service direction from software product development to full-service IT outsourcing and has grown 30-fold.

Nick is a true family man. The time he doesn’t devote to his ScienceSoft family, he spends with the most important people in his life: his wife, two children, and grandson.

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Boris Shiklo

Boris Shiklo

Chief Technology Officer

As a CTO, Boris strives to constantly evolve ScienceSoft’s pool of technical competencies to keep it relevant and marketable. Boris understands that ScienceSoft must grow in step with changing customer needs to confidently meet any emerging challenges. Under his careful leadership, ScienceSoft launched several new service directions and adopted multiple advanced techs (IoT, big data) that are now in high demand among our clients.

Boris has been leading the programming and R&D practice at ScienceSoft for over 20 years. During this time, he has acquired an extensive background in project management, software development, quality assurance, enterprise IT consulting, and strategic planning. Using this experience, Boris authored and co-authored over 50 publications for reputable media outlets such as Forbes, InformationWeek, and RFID Journal.

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Valentina Borokha

Valentina Borokha

Chief Financial Officer

As a head of finance at ScienceSoft, Valentina ensures financial transparency and clear financial reporting, building trust with our clients and business partners. She leads ScienceSoft’s financial department and oversees all financial operations, from tracking the flow of funds to budgeting and taxation. Valentina’s proficiency in financial planning and risk management has helped ScienceSoft survive and grow even during periods of recession.

Valentina is a loyal team player: she has been with ScienceSoft since 1992, wisely managing ScienceSoft’s finances for over three decades.

Ulad Radkevitch

Ulad Radkevitch

Vice President of Sales

Ulad is the head of ScienceSoft’s sales and customer success practice. After joining ScienceSoft in 2008, he set up a flexible and well-run sales pipeline. Ulad established the practice of open and transparent communication with our clients, partners, and team members, ensuring credibility throughout every interaction.

Ulad believes that one must be quick-thinking, truly committed to bringing value, and always ready to go the extra mile for customers to be successful in sales. Over the years at ScienceSoft, Ulad has assembled a team of 15+ passionate sales managers who share the same values.

A versatile business thinker and a charismatic leader, Ulad is also an angel investor and a frequent speaker at sales and marketing events.

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Wade Brantley

Wade Brantley

Chief Executive Officer, ScienceSoft USA

Wade oversees ScienceSoft’s operations and fosters long-term relationships with our clients in the Americas. With over 20 years of business management experience in technology and finance, Wade is committed to driving success for our clients while helping ScienceSoft grow as a company that is a positive force in the IT industry and the communities we serve.

Born and raised in the Carolinas, Wade now lives and offices in Dallas, Texas, to stay close to ScienceSoft’s headquarters. In an era when business communications have shifted mainly to virtual meetings, Wade values human connection and is always happy to meet our clients face-to-face.

Wade is a rational leader by day and a passionate musician by night, paying tribute to the music of John Cougar Mellencamp and Tom Petty through his bands Texan Fool and Heartbreak Petty.

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Dimitry Viazmin

Dimitry Viazmin

Vice President, Gulf Operations

Dimitry heads ScienceSoft’s presence in the Gulf Cooperation Council, overseeing our offices in the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Having dedicated nearly 20 years to ScienceSoft’s success, Dimitry works to align our IT expertise with the unique needs of our clients in the Gulf. He fosters a culture of heartfelt partnership, technological excellence, and customer-centricity in our KSA and UAE offices.

Dimitry is committed to helping businesses and communities in the Gulf Cooperation Council prosper by utilizing the latest technological innovations. With his active involvement, ScienceSoft has been productively collaborating with such valued clients as Saudia Cargo, Eastern Coast Group, Al Tamimi & Company, Deyarat Trading Company, Arabian Oud, and Boubyan Bank.

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Max Eliseev

Max Eliseev

Chief Executive Officer, ScienceSoft Europe

Max is the key driver of ScienceSoft’s expansion in Europe. He initiated the opening of ScienceSoft’s offices in Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania – a strategically important move for ScienceSoft to access new talent pools and provide a local presence for our European customers.

Max entered the IT industry as a QA engineer but quickly grew to the position of our Presales Director and contributed enormously to setting up effective collaboration between sales and production departments for fast RFP processing. In 2020, Max took over as CEO at ScienceSoft Europe — now, he ensures seamless integration and collaboration among the European offices.

Max is a musical soul. If you frequent summer festivals and concerts across Europe, chances are, you'll meet him there as a guest or even a DJ.

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Natallia Sakovich

Natallia Sakovich

Chief Executive Officer, ScienceSoft Finland

Natallia heads ScienceSoft’s Service Integration and Management office in Finland. As ScienceSoft’s development centers are distributed across three geographical regions (North America, Europe, and Gulf Cooperation Council), Natallia’s goal is to ensure proper governance of projects where employees from different locations are engaged. A strategic, forward-thinking leader, she synchronizes people, processes, and standards across distributed project teams to deliver a consistent service.

Natalia has a background in programming: she first joined ScienceSoft as a C# developer in 2005, then developed her career outside the company and returned to us in 2018 as the CEO at ScienceSoft Finland.

Alex Murashko

Alex Murashko

Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Alex ensures the technical excellence, consistency, and scalability of ScienceSoft’s services. He plays a key role in shaping ScienceSoft’s approach to technical delivery across diverse service lines — from software engineering and system integration to cloud, data, and security services.

Alex provides strategic oversight of software quality, development efficiency, and technical decision-making in delivery. He sets and evolves company-wide engineering standards, promotes development practices that reduce TCO, and drives continuous improvements in software development processes and SDLC maturity.

With a career at ScienceSoft dating back to 1997, Alex brings a rare combination of deep technical insight, extensive real-world delivery experience, and sharp business acumen. He ensures that every team at ScienceSoft operates with the right balance of innovation, discipline, and agility, so that our clients receive durable, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that succeed in production, not just in theory.

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Pavel Ilyusenko

Pavel Ilyusenko

Vice President of Project Management Office

Since 2019, Pavel has been leading ScienceSoft’s Project Management Office (PMO) — the core function in fulfilling our mission to ensure project success even in the face of tight deadlines, shifting priorities, limited budgets, and diverse stakeholder demands. Under Pavel’s direction, the PMO has evolved into a strong, high-performing team of over 60 professionals and a true competitive advantage for ScienceSoft.

Pavel ensures that our project management practices are mature, consistent, and strategically aligned with client expectations — including speed, cost-efficiency, transparency, proactivity, and reliability. His work directly strengthens ScienceSoft’s delivery capabilities and reinforces our reputation for dependability and excellence.

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Tanya Lebedzeva

Tanya Lebedzeva

Vice President of Strategy

Tanya plays a key role in driving ScienceSoft’s growth and competitive edge by refining internal processes and ensuring that our service offerings evolve in step with client demands. Tanya also fosters strong alignment across sales, technical, and delivery management teams, enabling more efficient collaboration and consistently high-quality service delivery. Her strategic foresight and commitment to excellence help position ScienceSoft as a trusted, future-ready partner for clients worldwide.

Tanya brings more than a decade of business analysis know-how to her role as Vice President of Strategy. Her leadership and impact have earned her recognition as one of The Consulting Report’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Consulting for 2025, underscoring her role as a visionary leader shaping the future of IT consulting at ScienceSoft and beyond.

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Dmitry Kurskov

Dmitry Kurskov

Cybersecurity Director, Principal Architect

Dmitry manages the security of ScienceSoft’s infrastructure and oversees the provision of managed security services to our clients. He implemented a robust security management program within ScienceSoft and achieved its full compliance with the ISO 27001 standard.

A pragmatic pessimist when it comes to security, Dmitry is convinced that constant learning and improvement is the only way to maintain reliable cyber defenses. Under Dmitry's leadership, ScienceSoft’s multi-skilled team of SIEM/SOAR/XDR specialists, Certified Ethical Hackers, cloud security experts, DevSecOps engineers, and compliance consultants works together to guarantee world-class protection of our clients’ data and infrastructures.

Dmitry has worked at ScienceSoft for over 25 years. Having started as a system administrator, he later refocused on security, becoming a Head of Information Security Department in 2017.

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Alex Zyil

Project Management Director

Alex leads ScienceSoft’s project management efforts, overseeing 60+ project managers and ensuring consistent use of tools and methodologies across all projects. His client-centric approach emphasizes clarity, punctuality, and proactive handling of potential issues. Working closely with PM group leads, Alex optimizes PM allocation, balances workloads, and eliminates bottlenecks, enabling project managers to deliver high-quality results without burnout. Through regular analysis of all project performance metrics, he drives continuous improvements in project delivery and swiftly addresses potential risks before they affect results. He also cultivates a culture of excellence through mentoring, rotation, and ongoing upskilling of ScienceSoft’s project managers.

Alex joined ScienceSoft in 2002 as a mobile developer. Before advancing to the role of Project Management Director, he headed Mobile Development Department, growing the team fivefold and delivering over 400 projects for top global brands. His decades-long technology and leadership experience underpins his precise, structured approach to project execution today.

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Alex Ramasheuski

Architecture and Solutions Director

Alex shapes ScienceSoft’s architectural strategy, leading a team of over 30 solution architects. Alex works at the intersection of business needs and technical execution: he ensures that every solution is designed to scale, remain resilient under real-world conditions, and deliver lasting ROI. By guiding his team’s continuous development and fostering collaboration across disciplines, Alex strengthens ScienceSoft’s ability to solve complex IT challenges efficiently and predictably. His practical, outcome-driven approach helps our clients avoid architectural missteps and ensures that innovation is sustainable, not just ambitious.

Since joining ScienceSoft in 2008, Alex has built deep expertise across the entire delivery lifecycle — from software design and development to project and delivery management. He has successfully led numerous mission-critical projects for world-renowned companies, delivering solutions that balance business goals with technical excellence.

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Mary Zayats

Mary Zayats

Head of Technology and Competency Development

Mary leads ScienceSoft’s Technology and Competency Center of Excellence (CoE), a strategically critical unit that develops talented specialists into high-impact contributors tailored to meet each client’s unique requirements. Mary oversees ScienceSoft’s rigorous hiring process, designs personalized growth paths, and fosters mentorship programs that prepare teams to excel in complex, dynamic project environments from day one. With a strong focus on individual strengths and continuous growth, Mary’s people-first leadership ensures that every specialist is equipped to make a meaningful impact.

Before taking the helm of the CoE, Mary earned a strong reputation as the leading business analyst at ScienceSoft. She successfully managed a team of over 40 analysts and consultants, transforming the Business Analysis function into one of ScienceSoft’s best-performing divisions.

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Andrei Mikhailau

Andrei Mikhailau

Talent Director, ScienceSoft Global

Andrei ensures that ScienceSoft’s global resource strategy aligns with the company’s business goals and supports its long-term success. He supervises talent planning and development across regions and designs cost-effective hiring and training strategies. Andrei focuses on fostering a culture where curiosity, creativity, and a proactive mindset aren’t just encouraged but expected from every IT specialist ScienceSoft brings on board. His strategic guidance helps ScienceSoft’s resource managers across departments close skill gaps quicker and better align with project demands.

Andrei came to talent management from the QA engineering field: he joined ScienceSoft in 2006 as Test Team Lead and later moved up to Software Testing Director. In 2025, Andrei was invited to take the position of Talent Director.

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Andy Lipnitski

Andy Lipnitski

IT Director, Principal Architect

Andy oversees the design, implementation, and maintenance of IT infrastructures for our clients and ScienceSoft’s internal needs. In his team of 60+ system and network administrators, DevOps engineers, and other IT experts, Andy promotes the values of stability, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency, making sure that each infrastructure we build meets the exact needs of its users. Under Andy’s guidance, ScienceSoft started providing comprehensive managed infrastructure services, helping our clients optimize their IT processes and expenses.

Andy has been working in IT since 2005 and has gained vast experience as a system administrator, solution architect, and team lead before taking on the position of IT Director.

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Ann Andreyeva

Ann Andreyeva

Customer Success Director

Ann’s goal is to ensure ScienceSoft’s clients gain high and lasting value from the company’s services. Acting as a trusted advisor, she proactively engages with clients to discover their business goals, challenges, and definition of success. Ann applies client feedback to refine ScienceSoft’s collaboration, project management, quality management, and delivery practices and unlock cost savings and growth opportunities for our clients as well as ScienceSoft. She also monitors key delivery health metrics across ScienceSoft’s projects to anticipate risks to client success and effectively tackle emerging issues.

Ann joined ScienceSoft in 2023 as a Business Development Manager and advanced to Customer Success Director in 2025. Ann’s thoughtful customer success strategies pay off through long-term, trusting IT partnerships that ScienceSoft has built with its clients.

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Paulina Ihnatovich

Paulina Ihnatovich

Director of Key Account Management

Paulina oversees a team of key account managers and leads ScienceSoft’s efforts in optimizing service workflows and enhancing client experience. She fosters a tailored, forward-thinking approach to each client and encourages her team to stay proactive, creative, and focused on tangible business outcomes. Paulina works closely with sales, project management, and technical teams to coordinate project delivery, ensure consistently high service quality across all engagements, and expand client relationships through value-adding service offerings.

Paulina joined ScienceSoft in 2021 as a Senior Account Manager and advanced to Director of Key Account Management in 2025. She continues to manage the accounts of ScienceSoft’s key digital transformation clients in healthcare and BFSI, acting as a strategic advisor on the optimal IT solutions and pragmatic risk mitigation steps.

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Ulad Stepuro

Ulad Stepuro

HR Director

Ulad takes care of ScienceSoft’s most valuable asset: our people. Working to keep our HR policies in line with the company’s commitment to fairness, equity, and transparency, he ensures that ScienceSoft is a safe and comfortable workplace for every team member. He fosters an environment where employees build trusting relationships with their team, are eager to develop professionally, and feel comfortable speaking up about their concerns.

Since Ulad joined ScienceSoft in 2007, the company’s workforce has grown fivefold. During that time, he has established effective recruitment processes, ensuring that ScienceSoft has the right talents to meet our clients' needs. Ulad also supports the development of the company’s PR strategy and contributes greatly to the growth of ScienceSoft’s brand awareness.

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