Alexander Turkot is Founder and Managing Partner of Maxfield Capital Partners, venture fund with focus on early stage IT and interenet projects.. In 2010-2012 Alexander Turkot served as Executive Director of the Strategic Computer Technologies and Software Cluster and is responsible for the initiation all information technology (IT) projects at. Skolkovo Foundation.. Previously, Mr Turkot had a varied career in international business, leading IT projects in the US, Japan, Switzerland, South Africa, Israel and France. He also founded start-up companies in Israel, the US and Europe. He has over 10 years of experience in consulting at various venture funds and private investors in both IT and telecommunications. He has worked at IBM, and most recently in 2007 he set up a partnership with News Corporation to create Fox Interactive Media - MySpace Russia, where he was CEO and managing partner.. Born in 1961, Mr Turkot graduated from the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute where he specialised in electrical systems. He also has a PhD in Economics.
