TATIANA ALEKSA,
President and CEO
Ever since her first financial venture, Bankirsky Dom, founded in 1992, Ms. Aleksa has been a highly successful entrepreneur.
In 1995, together with a few partners, recent Wharton Business School graduates, Ms. Aleksa launched Octet Media LLC, first as an Internet Service Provider. Only a year after founding Octet Media, Ms. Aleksa became company's General Manager and its only proprietor. Her first step as the single owner was to concentrate on Octet new core competence — development of Internet-based solutions.
In 1998, Ms. Aleksa founded Octet Communications Corp. — an Integrated Communications Provider serving overseas Internet and Voice service companies. A few months after the launch shares of this corporation were publicly sold through Direct Public Offering. In July, 2000 Octet Communications Corp. completed a corporate merger with Atlex Telecom,Inc, NJ-based telecom operator. Now, Ms Aleksa serves this company as a Chairman of the Board.
Ms. Aleksa is the Member of the New York III Women Presidents' Organization.
Ms. Aleksa's work has been featured in such prominent publications as The New York Times — Cyber Times, Daily News, PC Week, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, and Silicon Alley Reporter.
Ms. Aleksa holds MS in Finance from Moscow Finance Academy and MD from First Moscow Medical Institute.

IGOR SHOIFOT,
Director of Sales and Marketing
Mr. Shoifot's experience includes Internet marketing, direct mail, insurance, computer hardware and book sales, translation services and military.
Mr. Shoifot's diverse sales and marketing experience allows him to better understand our customers' unique needs. Prior to joining Octet he founded and co-owned a translation services company in New York City, worked as a marketing consultant at Plymouth Rock Corp. in Boston, and developed countrywide sales networks as a head of marketing and sales departments at Unieksport and Nachala Press companies in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Shoifot has MA from Central European University in Budapest, Ph.D. from Russian Academy of Sciences, and MBA from Boston University.