Arkady Volozh

Arkady Volozh is founder and CEO of Nebius, an AI infrastructure company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He co-founded the search engine Yandex and ran it as CEO for 25 years, according to The Innovator.

Taking Yandex Public on Nasdaq

Yandex was founded in 1997, counted Esther Dyson as an early investor, and went public on Nasdaq in 2011 through a holding company registered in the Netherlands. It reached a peak market value of $31 billion in November 2021, according to The Innovator.

Stepping Down After the Invasion of Ukraine

Volozh stepped down as Yandex CEO in July 2022, after Russia's attack on Ukraine, and launched Nebius two years later in the Netherlands, according to DLD. "When the invasion started, half of the Yandex top management and a thousand engineers left the country," he said, and many of them joined Nebius.

Returning to the CEO Job at 60

The international Yandex business rebranded as Nebius Group with Volozh as CEO, The Bell wrote, and he admitted that returning to the role after a decade away was stressful. "We need to launch a new company," he said. Nasdaq trading resumed under the ticker NBIS in October 2024, and Nebius then raised $700 million in a private placement from investors including Nvidia and Accel.