Alex Filonov

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Born December 14, 1956 in Izhevsk, USSR. Graduated high school in 1974 in Tambov, USSR and Tambov Institute of Chemical Engineering (now Tambov State Technical University) in 1979, with a BS equivalent. Starting October 1979 worked full time as IT specialist. Moved to Moscow Region in 1980. Until 1990 worked for different companies of Soviet military industrial complex. Created small software business in 1991, which failed in 1993. Worked for Oracle Corp in 1995 in Moscow. In 1996 moved to US, where continued working as an IT professional, which is still my main source of income. Became US citizen in 2006. Started investing in 1998. Had extremely successful 1998 and 1999, very bad 2000 and 2001, then recovered and currently my average investment performance is about 13% for the last 10 years (17% by the end of the last year, but this year spoiled everything), which, I think, isn't that bad. I mostly invest in what I know, which means mostly high tech companies, but wouldn't discard any opportunity. I'm trying to make my performance better and share my thoughts in my blog.

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