Portrait of Arkady Volozh

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Arkady Volozh

Net worth $7.4B

Search engine · Israel

Born
Feb 11, 1964
Age
62
Source
Search engine
Residence
Tel Aviv
Citizenship
Israel
Marital status
Married
Children
6
Education
Master of Science, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Arkady Volozh cofounded Yandex, a tech company best known for its search engine, which was renamed Nebius Group in 2024.
  • In 2024 the company sold its Russian assets to local investors in a deal worth $5.4 billion; it still retains its core business in A.I.-centric cloud services and now trades on the Nasdaq.
  • He cofounded the business with Ilya Segalovich who died of cancer in 2013.
  • Volozh started working on search in 1989, which led to him establishing Arkadia Company in 1990, a company that developed search software.
  • His early achievements include the development of electronic search for use in patents, Russian classical literature and the Bible.
  • Volozh resigned as CEO and executive director of Yandex after the EU sanctioned him personally in June 2022; the sanction was lifted in 2024.
  • He has resided in Israel since 2014 and is an Israeli citizen.
  • He cofounded several IT outfits, including InfiNet Wireless, a provider of wireless networking technology.
  • He also founded CompTek International, a distributor of network and telecom equipment in Russia.

Financial assets

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