Jurij is currently director of IBM Research Industry Solutions and Relationship Manager to the Venture Capital group. In this role Jurij works to integrate IBM Research technologies with that of VC's portfolio companies, ISVs and partners to create end to end solutions. In addition by focusing these solutions on specific industries and integrating technologies from around the world, especially from emerging geographies, the Research team builds a strong ecosystem which helps create opportunity for the partnership of portfolio companies, VCs, ISVs and IBM and provides business and technology insight from around the world.
For the last 3 years Jurij was currently Chief Technology Officer of the IBM Venture Capital group and also Director of Technology for the IBM Research Emerging Business Group, where he is focused on identifying and harvesting all sources of innovation for IBM's solutions and products from a worldwide perspective. These include technologies which support a wide range of industries including digital media(with particular emphasis on games), finance, retail, telecommunications and security. Through this innovation sourcing approach, the internal development is combined with external technologies, working with ISV's, the venture community and a wide range of partners. This enables the rapid growth of new markets and solutions which help our business partners and IBM.
Previously Jurij was Chief Technology Officer for the Global Digital Media Sector, and is responsible for the definition of the technical strategy for this sector. This sector is developing new opportunities for digital content solutions across a variety of market segments including: Entertainment and Media, Telecommunications, Retail, Education and Government. The focus of this work is to understand how digital content cannot only improve efficiencies in these industries but to change the way in which they work and to provide IBM solutions for these opportunities. In providing these solutions, Jurij is driving IBM and its partners, to adapt their products and technologies to merge the media related functions with eBusiness infrastructures. This merging process is leading to improved efficiencies and functionality for Digital Media.
Jurij has over 55 publications in various areas of telecommunications, technology and systems and over 16 patents in a wide variety of fields including communications, plasma chemistry, microlithography, materials manipulation and chip fabrication, packaging systems, media delivery and characterisation, Jurij has a broad experience to draw on to help span a wide variety of disciplines and to synthesise new approaches to old problems.
Jurij obtained his BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Sheffield in England and worked in a postdoctoral position at the University of Wisconsin Madison identifying the nature of gamma radiation induced trapped electrons in hydrocarbons before joining IBM.
