Eugene Goland is a businessman from Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. He is the founder and Chairman of Offshore Outsourcing Best Practices (OOBP.org) association and Chairman of the SME Global Sourcing chapter at IAOP. Since 1997 he's the President of DataArt

DataArt

DataArt is a high-end software engineering firm with industry-specific expertise in , , and . DataArt specializes in enterprise application development, system integration and business automation tools....

. Goland is also a co-founder of Russia’s premiere web-based portal, Mail.ru

Mail.ru

Mail.ru is the largest free e-mail service of the Runet. The business was originally owned by Port.ru, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as spin-off from DataArt. It received an initial investment of USD 1 million from the well-known investor James...

, one of the largest portal in Eastern Europe with 50 million users.

Goland is a frequent speaker at international CEO/CTO/CIO roundtables, technology conferences and symposiums. He hosted and organized the Executive Technology Leadership Forum; the Leadership and Culture Change Enabled by Technology in Emerging Markets; and CIO Community of Practice Meeting, he is also guest speaker in Fordham University.