Yuri Baranov is a successful software entrepreneur with a diverse background in marketing, sales, and project management. He is the founder and president of Giggster, a disruptive platform for the filming industry. Having founded and launched six profitable and groundbreaking companies since 2006, Baranov's expertise lies in nurturing and launching new startups that range from Social CRM tools (Nimble) to state-of-the-art semantic APIs (Semantria). He is passionate about creating healthy environments for smart and creative people who share a common purpose in making the world better through continuous changes leading to evolutionary breakthroughs.

Baranov studied finance at K-Tech (Kherson State Technical University) and has held various executive roles throughout his career, transitioning between C-level responsibilities, key relationships, business development, striking deals and strategic decision-making to operational, project, and product management roles. He specializes in building efficient engineering teams, detecting opportunities and executing them with limited resources, managing and planning marketing activities, search engine marketing, affiliate program management, online advertising, and product management.