Edward Shenderovich


Edward Shenderovich is an American entrepreneur of Russian origin. He is a co-founder and chairman of Knotel, a flexible real estate service, based in NYC. He is also the founder of Kite Ventures, a venture investment company behind , , Delivery Hero, Plated and Tradeshift. Prior to Kite Ventures, Shenderovich was a founding executive and the Head of Strategic Development at SUP, a Moscow-based Internet company. He also co-founded , a content management software provider and .

Business

Shenderovich was born in Leningrad, USSR and came to the United States in 1990. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley.
In 2006, Shenderovich became a founding executive of SUP and oversaw the company’s strategic development, including the development of LiveJournal in Russia.

Poetry

Shenderovich writes and publishes poetry in Russian. He has been published by many Russian journals and included in ‘’Ulysses Released: Contemporary Russian Poets Abroad ’’ edited by Dmitry Kuzmin. In December 2010, released a collection of Shenderovich's children's poems. A new collection came out in January 2014. Translators of his poetry into English include Richard Wayne Chambliss.
In September 2015, Shenderovich's collection entitled "About One, Two, 3, 4 and 5" received an award at Biennial of Illustration Bratislava.

MiNE

In 2000, Shenderovich became a professor of business modeling at Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, Italy, and was named Fellow of the MiNE program in 2004.