TATIANA ALEKSA,
President and CEO
Ever since her first financial venture, Golden Niva Corp. (founded in 1992), Ms. Aleksa has been a highly successful entrepreneur. She served as CFO and Vice-president of Golden Niva before successfully selling her interest in the international operation.
    In 1995, together with a few partners, recent Wharton Business School graduates, Ms. Aleksa launched Octet Media L.L.C, first as an Internet Service Provider. In mid-90s Octet was one of the first providers of Internet access and Internet-based development to New York-based companies and the ultimate Russian American ISP, which popularized the Internet to Russian community like no other company before or after it.
    In 1996, 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 1997, Ms. Aleksa was among the founders of a popular e-zine, Russian Web Girls.Com, a high-profile non-for-profit organization and the most popular Russian women club on the Web. Just a month after the first issue was published, the site has got more than a million hits per month.
    In 1998, Ms. Aleksa founded Octet Media sister-company Octet Communications Corp. - an integrated telecommunications firm serving overseas Internet and Voice service providers. Part of this corporation was publicly sold a few months after the launch.
    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 Akademy 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.