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VALERY KR ASOVSK Y, SIGMA SOFT WARE GROUP

The entrepreneur who
is an expert in software

and kitchenware.

You know you are talking to an entrepreneur when they have an array
of interests along with the curiosity to try or start something new. Where
a passionate interest in new things goes hand in hand with the ambition to
immerse oneself even more in pre-existing interests. Valery Krasovsky, the CEO

of Sigma Software, is exactly like that. He is also very goal-oriented.

Born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest “I still have a great interest in cars and engines, and
city, the young Valery knew exactly what he wanted I follow the F1 circus with great zeal. But when I
to be. His great interest in cars and engines paved saw the endless possibilities in computers, I knew
the way for a future career. He was going to be a what I wanted to work with,” says Valery about his
truck driver – of that he was certain. Imagine getting career choice.
to drive heavy trucks with a powerful weight and
load capacity all day. His journey along the road of ones and zeros
started with computer science studies at Kharkiv
Over the years, his ambition grew and Valery set Aerospace University where Valery graduated
his sights on becoming an automotive engineer. A as a Computer System Architect in 1998. He
plan that stuck with him for quite some time, until soon started working as a C++ developer. But it
the mid-80s when he discovered the classic comput- didn’t take long for the entrepreneur in him to
er game Arkanoid. And when Prince of Persia came blossom. In 2002, together with five partners,
out in 1989, the automotive ideas were parked, and he founded Eclipse Software Programming,
he knew then and there that his future professional which was the beginning of what we now know
career would revolve around computers. as Sigma Software.