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Andrew Rogozov, the former CEO of VK.com
In the begining of 2022 Rogozov will become a Founding Member of the TON Foundation, spearheading the drive for a community-led successor to the Telegram Open Network.
In 2007 Andrew Rogozov’s joined VKontakte (later shortened to VK.com) widely known as the “Russian Facebook” as an engineer and later rose through the ranks to become the CEO of VK.com. Rogozov is presently the Vice President of Social at VK (previously Mail.ru), the company that bought VK in 2014 and rebranded to VK in October 2021. Later this year, Rogozov will transfer to a consulting role at VK.com Because of his extensive experience and previous interactions with Pavel Durov and the Telegram team, Andrew Rogozov is a critical addition to the TON Foundation for these goals since Durov stopped being VK CEO in 2014. As a Founding Member of the TON Foundation, Rogozov will use his leadership skills to help TON realize its potential as an open-source, efficient, and widely used blockchain.
