Alex Orap 🇺🇦

Tech entrepreneur and founder at YouScan

Alexey Orap is a well-known tech entrepreneur with abundant proficiency in leading enterprise SaaS, consumer internet, business intelligence, and telecom industries. He is an expert in startup management, business development, strategic marketing, emerging technologies, new business models, social media intelligence, and SaaS. Alexey is passionate about helping other people succeed in entrepreneurship and has been creating and marketing disruptive hi-tech products and services for over 20 years.

He is the Founder and CEO of YouScan, a company that delivers AI-powered social media listening platform, and an angel investor on outloud.ai, VAR.energy, and Let's Enhance. Alexey is also the author of SaaSDojo.com, teaching startup founders the best SaaS practices. In 2022, he was included in the SILab's Insider 50 as one of the most influential professionals in social intelligence.

Alexey holds a Master's degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and a Master of Business Administration, Executive MBA, from Kyiv Mohyla Business School.

Experience

Founder & Chief Growth Officer at YouScan

CEO and Founder at YouScan (October 2009 - July 2022), Business Development Director at Yandex (July 2008 - November 2009), Enterprise Channel Sales Leader at Alcatel-Lucent (May 2006 - July 2008)

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science and Applied Math from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (1993 - 1998), Executive MBA from Kyiv Mohyla Business School (2007 - 2008)