Andrey Andreev, with real name Andrey Ogandzhanyants (Андрей Оганджанянц) (born in February 1974) is a Russian businessman who founded the internet social networking and dating site Badoo

Badoo

Badoo is a multi-lingual social networking website, managed out of its Soho, London headquarters, but owned by a company in Cyprus and ultimately by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev...

 as well as other Russian internet businesses: SpyLog, Begun and Mamba (:ru:Mamba.ru).

Family and personal life

He spent his childhood in Moscow and studied at the local university management for 18 months, while holding down a job.

When his father, Wagner Ogandzhanyants, a mathematics professor, moved together with his mother, a teacher, to Spain, he relocated with them in 1995.

Since 2005 he is based in central London.