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President and Chief
Executive Officer A leading visionary in supply chain planning and eProcurement, Dr. Smirnov has spent several years investigating customer pain-points in the area of high-tech manufacturing and independently began development of a solution to the long-standing problem of decision support for multi-vendor, multi-line item RFQ processing. In June 2000, together with a small group of prominent technologists and marketing specialists, Dr. Smirnov founded Akonite. For the past year, Dr. Smirnov has brought the multi-vendor procurement to an unprecedented level of ease of use and seamless third party integration. Dr. Smirnov has over 15 years of experience in industrial development. Prior to founding Akonite, Dr. Smirnov held senior management positions at the fastest growing ERP and Supply Chain Planning (SCP) software company, Peoplesoft, where he was instrumental in orchestrating the first joint ERP/SCP release between Peoplesoft and RedPepper. During his residence at Peoplesoft, Dr. Smirnov worked on solving one of the most controversial open problems of manufacturing modeling, namely the separation of the Bill of Materials and Routings. His architectural and project management efforts were essential in taking eCommerce leaders Impresse and Calico Commerce to the next levels of success. While completing his doctorate degree, Dr. Smirnov worked at Westinghouse in the area of distributed computing and process control. Dr. Smirnov's computing career began at the National Defense Electronics Institute, a research division of one of the largest manufacturing enterprises, where he headed the design of airborne data and signal processors for fighters, helicopters, and missiles. After the fall of the iron curtain, when East European markets became open to Western companies, Dr. Smirnov was promoted to the level of Vice President of Business Development to oversee business relations with European and North American partners. Dr. Smirnov was responsible for signing one of the biggest joint ventures of that time in Russia with Gillette. Dr. Smirnov has published several dozen refereed articles in the area of Supply Chain Planning, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research and Computer Science in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Smirnov is an avid runner- he had a couple of certified mile races under 4 minutes and finished 25th at the 1996 US Championship in half-marathon. Dr. Smirnov received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, MS in Operations Research and BS in Applied Mathematics from St. Petersburg State University.
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