Kirill Bigai

Kirill Bigai is the CEO and co-founder of Preply, an online platform that connects students and tutors for language and academic tutoring. Prior to founding Preply, Kirill worked as an implementation consultant at Creatio and as an intelligent network engineer at MTS Group.

Kirill has always been interested in technology and how it can be used to improve people's lives. This interest led him to pursue a career in engineering. After working in the telecom industry for several years, Kirill decided to start their own company. Preply was born out of Kirill's desire to make language learning more accessible and convenient for everyone.

Today, Preply is one of the leading online tutoring platforms, with students and tutors from all over the world using the platform to connect and learn. Thanks to Kirill's vision and leadership, Preply is helping people achieve their language learning goals every day.

Kirill Bigai has a Specialist degree in Telecommunications Engineering from National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute', a Master's in Business Management from Kyiv National Economic University, and a certification in Gamification from Coursera.

Some individuals on their team include Andreas Kyprianou - Director of People Operations, Systems and Analytics, Josh Crossick - CPO, and Filippo Gallignani - CMO.