Yury Kazantsev is an accomplished account manager with 13 years of experience building and growing enterprise sales in IT, networking and telecom across Russia and Eurasia. He has a consistent track record of overachievement at major vendors and distributors—earning multiple top-sales and contributor awards at Huawei and delivering multimillion-dollar projects and first-of-kind technical implementations while at Cisco. Comfortable leading teams and restructuring sales organizations, Yury has managed direct-report teams up to 10 and driven strategy from partner channels to large strategic accounts. His background in procurement and project management for large engineering projects (including high-value equipment contracts for a nuclear power plant) gives him a rare blend of commercial sales acumen and complex RFP/contract experience. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded and sold a niche race management/timing solution with a fivefold margin, demonstrating product-market insight beyond pure services. Based in Saint Petersburg, he combines technical education in computing systems with formal training in public relations, enabling effective cross-functional communication and stakeholder alignment.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s degree, Public Relations, Diploma with honours, Bachelor’s degree, Public Relations, Diploma with honours at University of the Russian Academy of Education
Bachelor’s degree, Computing Systems and Networks, Bachelor’s degree, Computing Systems and Networks at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
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Yury Kazantsev - Account Manager at Positive Technologies