FOTKI

Dmitri Don, together with Katrin Lilleoks, founded Fotki in 1998 in their spare time. Katrin and Dmitri were interested in a means to communicate with friends around the world and relatives staying abroad via sharing photos. Being a hobby, Fotki's first headquarters was in its founders' New York City apartment.

Before Fotki, Dmitri was VP of Software Development at Epsylon Technologies, and also Lead Developer for SenseNet and Citipost.com. Dmitri has a wealth of web-development experience; he conducted development work on About.com, New York Public Library, several Warner Brothers movie sites, Olympus, Lucent, Smithsonian, RCN.com, and worked as a consultant for MasterCard, CitiPost and other companies. He also served as a Lead Developer of one of the leading PR portals of the Dotcom Era, Courtney Pulitzer's Cocktails with Courtney.

Dmitri is an expert in areas such as back-end, front-end, usability and complex application development. He taught several software development courses, including courses on Java and other technologies.

To contact Dmitri, email: or call: +1-408-414-7766.

A perennial entrepreneur, Igor was CEO of Microsoft WebTV's largest entertainment portal, Epsylon Games, and ran and co-founded start-ups in digital video, VoIP, document management and software development. He published articles and interviews on technology, Internet business and digital media in Venture Beat, TV Technology, eMedia, Dagens Industri Magazine, Outsourcing Offshore and other publications.

For 8 years, Igor has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in digital media, online advertising and marketing, e-commerce and e-business at New York University and other schools.

He has an MBA from Boston University, a PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences and an MA from Central European University in Budapest.

To contact Igor, email: ishoifot@fotki.com.

Katrin Lilleoks played a key role in Fotki development as well. She was Fotki's first test lead and copy editor. Her duties also included technical writing and customer-support development; and in the course of time she had been engaged into business operation and administration.

Before assuming her current position at Fotki, Katrin served as web designer at SenseNet. Among Katrin's accomplishments of that period were the creation of websites for Olympus America, and The New York Public Library, as well as the official websites for the hit movies "City of Angels," and "Analyze This." Prior to joining SenseNet in the U.S., K. Lilleoks established herself in the world of international finances as a manager at Tallinn Bank in Estonia.

To contact Katrin, email: klilleoks@fotki.com.

Pavel Merdin joined Fotki in 2000. He is responsible for software development and system administration in the company. His efforts are aimed towards optimizing service costs via developing original technical solutions in Fotki's system software.

Pavel worked for the Internet services department at JSC "Electrosvyaz", a leading Eastern European telecommunications company, where he participated in designing high-level scalable network architecture and developing Internet hosting and network services. Pavel is also an expert in routing management, server administration and service marketing.

Mr. Merdin is a MS degree graduate of a prestigious Bauman Moscow State Technical University with a major in systems management. He also earned an MS in Development and Application of Information Systems from De Monfort University, United Kingdom, and possesses numerous international technology certificates.