Alex Fridlyand
Chair of Compensation Committee
Board of Directors
Ciklum
Denmark
Biography
Dr. Fridlyand studied mathematics and graduated summa cum laude from the Moscow Forest Technical Institute, School of Applied Mathematics. In 1991, he has moved to the United States to study turbulence and chaos theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and received his Ph.D. there in 1995. That same year Dr. Fridlyand founded a company that quickly merged with another startup Data Center company in California, with which he stayed through multiple mergers and acquisitions until 2003, for a couple of years after it became a part of the 150-year-old Cable & Wireless plc based in the UK. Dr. Fridlyand joined Soros Fund Management in May, 2005. Since then he led a dozen of direct investments and currently represents Soros on the Board of Directors of various oil & gas explorations, insurance, catastrophic reinsurance and telecommunication companies in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Colombia and Turkey.
Research Interest
software development
