About
Alex Gikher grew up in Odessa, Ukraine, dreaming of working with computers and becoming an entrepreneur. Inspired by American movies, he started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 8 years old. Alex advertised his first business by scrawling the words “hand car wash” in red paint on the biggest piece of plywood he could find. Over the next few weeks, he washed a total of 3 cars before deciding that the market wasn’t ready for his disruptive innovation. At the age of 11, he moved with his family to the US, where he discovered there are many more willing customers for the companies he founded.
Experience
After gaining a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s in management, he honed his craft in several leadership roles in organizations such as SAP America and EPAM Systems. During his first week at EPAM, he met Valerie while working on a proposal for a large, multinational ERP project and was impressed by her drive to be successful and make her clients even more successful. Perhaps what surprised Alex the most was her ability to understand people’s needs and how to organize teams to deliver quantifiable value to a project.
