Management Team
Global Headquarters (New York City)
Yuri Frayman, CEO and Chairman of the Board, yuriATviewdleDOTcomLaurent Gil, President, laurentATviewdleDOTcom
Yegor Anchishkin, CTO
Barry Schiffman, COO and General Counsel, barryATviewdleDOTcom
Stephanie Wood, VP, Marketing Communications, stephanieATviewdleDOTcom
EMEA Headquarters (Luxembourg)
Gerard Bonnevay, SVP, EMEA OperationsChristophe Perini, VP, EMEA Sales and Business Development
Francis Crochot, VP, EMEA Technical Operations
Research & Development (Kiev)
Mikhail Schlesinger, Chief ScientistYuriy Musatenko, VP, Architecture
Alexander Zhukov, VP, Engineering
Sergey Boyko, VP, Research & Development
Barry Schiffman, General Counsel and COO
A. Barry Schiffman is Chief Operations Officer for Viewdle. He also serves on the Company's Board of Directors and as General Counsel. Barry’s responsibilities at Viewdle entail establishing strategic alliances and partnerships, developing and implementing a strategy for global market penetration, structuring client and investor relationships, and managing legal issues. Prior to Viewdle, he was an Associate at Bracewell and Giuliani LLP and helped co-found Next Frontier Capital, an emerging markets private equity and investment advisory firm. Barry has been involved in both a business and legal capacity in project financings and transactions in Ukraine, Mauritania, Nigeria, Mali and China. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, Magna Cum Laude, and Georgetown University Law Center. Barry is a member of the State Bar of New York.
Laurent Gil, President
Laurent Gil is president of Viewdle. He is responsible for Viewdle’s day-day-operations, including business strategy, business development activities and investor relations outreach.
Prior to joining Viewdle, Laurent was a senior investment banker that held various positions in corporate finance and capital markets at the French investment bank Credit Agricole, with assignments in New York, Tokyo and Paris. During his MBA at Wharton, he co-founded a boutique investment bank in Brazil that completed several large transactions in the telecom sector in Latin America. He also co-founded and served as CFO of TAHO, a wireless internet service provider in Rio de Janeiro, which raised US $10MM in 2001 and subsequently launched a service of broadband wireless internet in communities. Additionally, Laurent has run a successful oil and gas exploration company, which was recently sold under his watch.
Laurent is a Summa Cum Laude graduate from The University of Bordeaux in France with a B.S. in mathematics, physics and computer science; he holds a Master of Science degree in signal processing from the French graduate engineering school Supélec, a post-graduate degree in management from the Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris, France and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, USA (2003)