Eugene Kuznetsov

Eugene Kuznetsov, Abine Chairman and co-founder, has earned recognition for both his business and technical leadership, including the prestigious InfoWorld Top 25 CTOs of 2005 and regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 awards. Eugene was most recently an executive at IBM, with responsibility for product management and marketing of SOA appliances. Eugene joined IBM through acquisition of DataPower in October 2005.

Eugene founded DataPower in 1999 and served as President until Spring 2003 as it grew from one to 75 employees, raising over $20M from investors and building a customer list of household names. Kuznetsov's articles have appeared in numerous tech publications, and he has spoken at conferences and events including Digital ID World, NetSec, JavaOne, Networld+Interop, and the IT Security & Privacy Conference. Kuznetsov earned a BSEE from MIT.