Senior Leadership

In 2006 Elena graduated from UGTU-UPI (UrFU at present) majoring in Applied Computer Science in Economics. In 2004, while still studying at university, she started her career at SKB Kontur and worked in Technical Support Department consulting clients and partners on accounting solutions.

In 2012 Elena moved to the other position and became a manager of the Department of Regional Development. At her new position, she continued consulting partners on accounting solutions; however, the focus shifted to helping partners in developing their business, expanding their presence, and increasing sales. Later Elena became the Head of the Office responsible for establishing new partnerships and started developing international partnerships.

In 2018 Elena became the Head of Partner Network Development Service, responsible for sales of Kontur services all over the world. Her colleagues connect with partners worldwide, at the moment partner network covers the USA, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Serbia, Uzbekistan and other countries. 

Elena’s passions are drawing and traveling. In her free time, she also goes in for sports.

Graduated from the faculty of psychology of UrFU, master degree. Worked as a business trainer and consultant on organizational development in consulting company.

Joined SKB Kontur in 2010 as a training manager. Conducted strategic planning sessions for top management and trainings for business negotiations. In half a year became a corporate trainer of the company, conducted training on management skills, active sales, public speaking, time-management, creative thinking.

In 2012 established corporate university for development and training of employees of the company. In three years the number of staff of the department increased to 14 persons, new directions appeared — Internal trainers, Corporate training, Distant training, Assessment.

In 2016 became a manager of Kontur.FMS project, and in a year launches Kontur.Hotel project for Russian hotels. Kontur.Hotel enables easy managing business processes, accept bookings from Russian and international platforms and reduce the risk of fines from Departments of Internal Affairs — to spend less and earn more, — Yevgeny comments.

Yevgeny has a daughter. At leisure time he reads books, goes to yoga, is fond of photography and travelling.

Graduated from Mathematical and Mechanical Faculty of UrGU in 1982. In 1987 together with Vladimir Vasiliev and Alexandr Davydov established SKB Kontur. In 1990 became CEO of the company. «We had a strong team of AMBa (at present Kontur.Zarplata). but we did not want to be a company of one product and we tried to diversify our activity: developed new software, organized training center, and even publishes our magazine «Computer on an enterprise», — Andrey Vladimirovitch sais.

After 1993 participated in establishment of a bank, headed financial service of a company, supplying coil from Kazakhstan to Russia and Russian goods to coal minings of Ekibastuz, headed large company engaged in industrial services.

In 2015 returned to SKB Kontur. Heads customer service on construction and development of company’s office at Shirokaya Rechka in Yekaterinburg: protects interests of investoe and controls funds spending.

In 2017 with start of construction of II building of the office, an ides appeared to scale the project and create Kontur.Park — scientific and technological complex on the area of 16.8 hectare. As a project manager, Andrey Mikhailov organized joint work of designers, general contractor and customer.

«Communicator is one of the important image of a manager, Andrey Vladimirovitch considers. — To make cooperation inside the company, to establish a team is as important as to build dialogue with authorities and generate ideas to be compatible on the Market. And it is nice if a manager hires such people to his team. It is great if all these traits are in a manager himself».

Is fond of mountain skiing, likes fishing, Married, has two children.

Graduated from Ural State Pedagogical Institute, faculty of foreign languages.

Joined SKB Kontur in 2007 and became first technical writer in the Company. Worked in Kontur.Personnel and in 2008 headed department of technical documentation where was engaged in development of user documentation for all services of SKB Kontur and creation of training videos for clients.

In 2017 moved to Kontur.OFD as an expert. Oxana’s competences include application of cash legislation: Federal Law 22.05.2003 № 54-FZ, Order of FNS of Russian dated 21.03.2017 № ММВ-7-20/229@ and other by-laws.

Oxana consults clients and employees of the company on specifics of application of 54-FZ, specific of transfer of fiscal data to FNS, terms of transfer to online cashiers, design of receipts, etc. Oxana’s comments are published in such media as RBC, Commercial Director, at portal vc.ru, etc.

«A large scale reform in the field of application of cash machines is ongoing in the country since 2016 and many entrepreneurs shall study the issue from the beginning, We as an operator of fiscal data help business to comply with requirements of 54-FZ on transfer of e-receipts from online cahiers to tax authority as well as be acknowledged with specifics of legislation», — comments Oxana.

Oxana spends free time with family, likes to read and travel.

In 1997, Vyacheslav graduated from the Mechanics and Mathemetics faculty of USU with a major in «mathematics». In 1996, he started working at SKB Kontur as an integration specialist for the AMBa salary calculation system (today — Kontur.Zarplata). He later became Head of the development group for Kontur.Zarplata. Was engaged in development of block for calculation of salary in professional version of Kontur.Buhgalteria as an consultant.

Right now, Vyacheslav Shinkarev deals with automation of salary calcaulations as well as delivery of reports to authorities.

Vyacheslav Shinkarev is a resident expert of the Bukhgalteria-Online forum and an author of articles and webinars on professional web-platforms Glavbukh.ru, Clerk.ru, etc. He is an expert in specifics of calculation of salary, sick leaves, child’s payments, as well as reflection of insurance contributions and personal income tax in quarterly reporting of the company, preparation of reporting for control authorities.

He is fond of soccer, volleyball. He is married and has two sons and a daughter.

Graduated from the Automated Management Systems faculty of Novosibirsk State Technical University with a major in «automation of information processing». Worked at the Sverdlovsk-khleboproduct computational center where she provided program maintenance for the unified computer system. After re-training, she moved to the programming department.

Elena's first encounter with Kontur was in 1990, when she came to the computational center of Promstroibank as a programmer and an integration specialist for the AMBa salary calculation system (at present — Kontur.Zarplata).

In 1999 Elena Kulakova joined SKB Kontur. She was engaged in AMBa activity a bit, but more — in «PF-Report» — tested the product, wrote user manuals, consulted users. Elena and her colleagues promoted the software in regional departments of Pension fund: conducted educational seminars and solved methodological challenges. In 2009 she became an expert of Kontur.Otchet PF web-service, which later joined Kontur.Extern system.

Right now Elena Kulakova is A Chief Expert of SKB Kontur in insurance contributions to FNS and personified accounting in PRF. She helps project teams to deal with regulations and peculiarities of reporting on secured. She conducts training webinars and make reports on conferences for accountants.

Elena Kulakova's comments and articles are regularly published in such magazines as Zarplana, Uchet Nalogi i Pravo and relevant websites.

Olga Smirnova is a professional with experience in project management in the sectors of IT, financial and bank services. She graduated from the USU in 2003 with a major in «linguistics»; from the Metropolitan State University of Denver (USA) with a major in «international projects management».

Olga worked at Western Union and headed development and launching main line of products onto the market: electronic and cash money transfers, payments and cards for advance payments. In 2009, Olga formed and stepped in charge of a project office dealing with money transfers.

In 2012 joined SKB Kontur. In 2012-2013, Olga launched product portal kontur.ru, started a joint project with Sberbank on launching a portal for small businesses called Delovaya Sreda, was responsible for launching on the market of service for outsourcing of accounting services — Kontur.Buhta. Later she leaded «Services for Internet-banks» area/ Under its management the team launches and implemented Svetofor — service for express check of contractors at sending payment in internet-bank, and later — service Kontur.Prizma for automatic check of clients under 115-FZ in dozens of Russian banks.

Right now, Olga's responsibility list includes management of the SKB Kontur project portfolio, management of initiatives aimed at perfecting the products and future growth; she is also involved in managing key operational business processes as well as development and execution on strategies.

Olga Smirnova is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). She holds a certificate from the PMI, degree of Project Management Professional (PMP) (2007), as well as a Six Sigma project management certificate that says Six Sigma Yellow Belt (2008).

Graduated from Riga Air University with a major in «system engineering» and Shadrinsk Financial College with a major in «finance».

She has more than 10 years of working experience in tax authorities. Was engaged in technological and regulating issues, system administration and software maintenance.

In 2006, she joined SKB Kontur as a software tests specialist. She later became an expert in the Authorities Support service, and then — a processes manager for the Technical Support Department. She now holds the position of Deputy Director of the TSO.

Natalya Nikitina's main area of activity is communications with tax authorities and the Federal Tax Authority. She solves technical, methodological and organizational tasks. She takes active part in organizing pilot projects, preparing drafts of regulatory documents as well as in integration of new protocols of interaction between tax payers and tax authorities.

She is keen on basketball and volleyball as well as hiking.

In 2008 graduated from Moscow Engineering and Physical Institute on specialty «Automation and management of technical systems». After graduation worked as a programmer in a company-partner of 1C. In several years became head of development department.

In 2013 joined SKB Kontur as a developer of 1C for Kontur.EDI project. «I came to SKB Kontur for scale: I wanted to write a product under conditions of industrial development, with large scale», — Pavel comments.

In 2017 headed 1C development of Kontur.Mercury. Pavel has functions of an expert, developer and manager. It is he who is responsible for Kontur.Mercury. «The process of VSD issue is not formalized on the level of existing systems in Mercury, Initially it was not the task, because it does not matter how thoroughly a developer plans the architecture, soon he understands that some part works differently at a real client. And you need to constantly adjust», — Pavel considers.

Married, has a daughter.

Graduated from UrGU (UrFU at present) on specialty «applied mathematics». In 2010 joined SKB Kontur, designed interfaces in Certification Authority account team, then mover to Kontur.Elba. In 2016 headed this project.

Ramil is an expert in small business. He has an experience in startup. In order to make Elba more friendly, he communicated with users a lot and he knows what issues shall entrepreneurs settle.

«They like Elba for easiness and friendliness. We spend a lof for that/ We conduct usability researches and constantly communicate with clients. Elba does good with reporting. Now we want it to help entrepreneurs with other boring tasks».

Ramil likes mountain rest — skiing, and snowboard now. Starts his day from swimming or yoga. Dances jazz dance lindi-hop and trained it for several years.

Graduated from UrFU on specialty «philosophy» in 2011 nd UrGEY on specialty «accounting, analysis and audit» in 2012.

Since 2011 took accounting in accounting company, since 2013 headed the department on accounting and reporting in servicing accounting. Participated in audit inspections of large Russian companies in construction, trading, field of common services, external economic activity.

Since 2014 is an acting member of the Chamber of tax consultants. Her competences include analysis of accounting and tax legislation for needs of small business.

In 2015 joined SKB Kontur. Writes expert articles and comments for Clerk, Russian newspaper and other business and accounting mass media, Helps sales: consult managers and clients in difficult cases. Conducts client webinars of Kontur.Buhgalteria, makes presentations on business breakfasts and Road Show.

«I appreciate working in SKB Kontur for a possibility to influence creation of new products, — Tatiana comments. – Our services help small business to grow successfully and interact with authorities with minimum stress».

Tatiana travels a lot, likes go to the country side. In winter she is ford of snowboard, practices yoga in morning.

Graduated from philology faculty of Ural State University (at present UrFU) on specialty «rhetoric and stylistics». Joined SKB Kontur in 2013 as a copywriter of Certification authority. Joined the team of Kontur.Zakipki in 2014 as an author of articles for Reference service. Helping to participants of government procurement to deal with specifics of legislation she grew to expert in the field of procurement.

In 2017 has advanced training in «Legal regulation of contract system» in the Institute of Government Procurement (department of Moscow state legal university of O.E. Kutafin). Annually takes part in profile conferences, annually follows changes in Russian system of government procurement.

Anna communicates a lot with participants of government procurement, answers their questions in comments to articles in section «Question to an expert» She tries to make texts easy and understandable even for new-comers. She is an author of the set of articles «44-FZ in simple language» and a guidance for starting suppliers.

Anna’s competences as an expert include changes of legislation in the sphere of procurement, digitalization of procurement, application in practice of preferences to small business. Anna’s expert comments may be found in Russian newspaper, RBC, and other federal mass media.

She reads a lot, likes to travel, studies Japanese and plays in «What? Where? When?».

Maxim Shifman graduated from UrFU on specialty «connection networks and communication systems». Joined SKB Kontur in 2003 as a tester of software. In several years became a developer and took a role of development manager and later — project manager. Since 2017 is a head of Retail Automation.

He is responsible for development of solutions for small business: Kontur.Market, tool for operation with EGAIS and alcohol declaring, cash equipment with software. All these solutions operate together with other SKB Kontur products, Maxim team makes it so that compliance with law bring only profit to business and automation will not be expensive but easy and friendly.

«I dream to create –e-helper for retail, catering and services, — Maxim sais. – Such as assistant which will help entrepreneur and his employees to settle all the issues from management of supplies and exchange of documents to slaes on cashier. We check many hypotheses to bring maximum profit with each release. Our Kontur.Market is just starting its way to the dream».

Maxim is fond of freeride, reads books about business, travels a lot and pays tennic sometimes.

Graduated from UrGU in 2004 on specialty «Physics of low temperatures and high pressures». In 2006 joined SKB Kontur as an employee of authorities supporting service, in two years became a Deputy Head and in 2009 became a head of the service.

Ilya is an expert in the field of Internet-reporting and application of e-signature, he knows in details legislation on cash machines and controlled goods. He helps to employees of FNS, PFR, Rosstat and other authorities to settle issues related to interpretation and application of legal acts and regulations, He conducts seminars for state employees, accountants, business representatives — from budget organizations to retailers, catering and hotels.

Support service headed by Ilya helps to deliver documents to authorities and receive documents in reply.

«We have to know legislation and regulations in detail, as often the issues lie at the edge of legal and technical aspects of operation of authorities,— Ilya Korionov sais. — Sometimes in order to give an expert assessment, we gather a concilium and I feel as Dr. House searching for a solution. But I am more Dr. Watson by my character: I am pleased to share my knowledge and like to help people».

Ilya often rides a bicycle to the office and prefers active rest. With colleagues he goes rafting, and with family — travels in mountains of Ural, Altai and Far East.