Igor is a successful entrepreneur with strong technical skills. He co-founded HelpMeeting, a company that specializes in web conferencing and desktop sharing. Prior to this, he founded SCLAB, a technology outsourcing company that provided services to clients such as AT&T, Avaya, Knight Securities, and Music Icon. Igor was also a lead software architect at AT&T Bell Labs Research, where he focused on developing web and teleconferencing systems, network system architecture, fault tolerance, video, voice, and screen sharing systems for a period of seven years. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, which he received at the age of 25 from the USSR Academy of Sciences, and holds two patents. His personal interests include mountaineering, having summited five of the world's seven highest peaks, including Kilimanjaro, McKinley, Aconcagua, Elbrus, and Everest.