Edward Shenderovich (born January 7, 1976) is an American entrepreneur, publisher, educator and award-winning poet.

Business

Shenderovich was born in

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(now

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). He came to the

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aged 14 in 1990, later becoming a

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American citizen. He attended

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in San Diego and graduated from the

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. In 2006, Shenderovich became a founding executive of online media company SUP and oversaw the company's strategic development, including the development of

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in Russia. In 2009, Shenderovich founded Kite Ventures, a venture investment company that led investments in Darberry (acquired by

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)
Fyber (FRA:FBEN)
Delivery Hero (FRA:DHER),

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(acquired by Albertsons), Tradeshift, and others. In 2015 he co-founded and became executive chairman o
Knotel
a flexible real estate service, now owned by

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. Shenderovich is currently the co-founder and CEO o
Synonym
a New York-based company building infrastructure for the

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Poetry

Shenderovich writes and publishes poetry in Russian. He has been published by many Russian journals and included in ‘’Ulysses Released: Contemporary Russian Poets Abroad (In Russian:2004)’’ edited by

Dmitry Kuzmin Dmitry Vladimirovich Kuzmin (, born December 12, 1968), is a Russian poet, critic, and publisher. Biography Kuzmin was born in Moscow, son of the architect Vladimir Legoshin and the literary critic Edwarda Kuzmina; among his grandparents were t ...

. In December 2010
Samokat Publishing House
released a collection of Shenderovich's children's poems. A new collection came out in January 2014. Translators of his poetry into English include Richard Wayne Chambliss. In September 2015, Shenderovich's collection entitled "About One, Two, 3, 4 and 5" received an award at

Biennial of Illustration Bratislava The Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) is one of the oldest international honours for children's book illustrators. First granted in 1967 to Yasuo Segawa (Japan), it is one of the more prestigious children's book awards today, along with t ...

MiNE

In 2000, Shenderovich became a professor of business modeling at Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in

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, and was named Fellow of the MiN

program in 2004.

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Synonym

Knotel
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