Staff

Nikita Sherman

Nikita Sherman

Founder & CEO

Having started playing games in the childhood, Nikita can’t stop. He considers that games and dreams have accelerated the ape’s turning into a man. . Having started from the media- business via contextual advertising, MMORPG then dating and social networks before founing Drimmi. Nikita has worked for Begun, IT-Territory, Mamba. He spends his free time bringing up two rising gamers. He is also fond of travelling, taking photos and of course playing games.

Victor Zaharchenko

Victor Zaharchenko

COO

In the first years of his career Victor devoted himself to the world of journalism, having passed through all the stages from the freelance writer to the on-line project editor. In 2004 he created his own content-agency. During the last 4 years he has been developing the content-projects under the e-generator.ru. He held the position which was responsible for the social cooperation progress and in parallel managing the social catalog toodoo development.

It is with great pleasure that he agreed to join the team at Drimmi. He is responsible for the business development of the company, and controls the analytic and marketing department’s activity. During his free time Victor writes a column in the business-edition «Vedomosti» and also is a co-presenter of the radio-programm «Tochka» at the «Echo Moskvi». He takes an interest in football and is fond of T-shirts with monkey images.

Michael Konobeevskij

Michael Konobeevskij

CTO

Michael has worked for the company since its foundation. Our hero has similiar experience with the Territory of Information Technologies and IT-Territory companies. He has been working for Drimmi since the first days of its existance — his job is to monitor if everything works well. His favourite film is «12 monkeys».

Michael Khripin-Golovnya

Michael Khripin-Golovnya

Project manager / lead game designer

Michael began to professionally practice computer games as of 1997. In 2001 he became a co-founder of the game developer company ÍÂÌ, to which he devoted 5 years. Then he «crossed the line», by working as a PC games producer in the publishing house «Novij disk» and the company «GDTeam».

Having returned from the «secret service», he managed the European languages localization project of browser-based MMORPG «Teknomagic» and then the development of the new non-advertised browser-based project. For some time he had been working as a Development Director in «Pipe Studio», however he found out some common genes with the monkeys and joined Nikita Sherman’s start-up — Drimmi. Michael has been working for the company since the first days of its existance, he is responsible for the game design and the inside studio projects development. In his free time Michael spends it with his wife by creating pictures, poetizing and writing fantastic, sometimes quite scientific, not really, short stories.

Almas Abulhairov

Almas Abulhairov

Lead analyst

Almas came to Drimmi from the world of science, where for 2 years he had been engaged in the earth magnetosphere mathematical simulation. During this time he closely acquainted himself with the planning, the marketing and the sales in IT-start-ups. After that he came to work for the Venture Fund ABRT, which became Drimmi’s co-investor. In ABRT, Almas was engaged in the simulation of the analytics and financial models of the fund’s startups. He analysed the start-ups investment demands and had business contact with Mangrove Capital Partners.

During his work with ABRT, Almas became acquainted with Nikita Sherman and believed in Drimmi’s future (because the monkey is really funny). He is responsible for the game forecasting and analytics, along with the social games market economic research. He has invented different mathematical models which are able to increase the team uptake of the mechanisms’ growth and the game monetization. He feels at home speaking 3 languages and speaks a little of another two. Almas is a fan of the Russian select team, is fond of downhill and cross-country skiing as well as reading books.