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Our Staff
Thanks to our staff, volunteers and everyone who has contributed to the development of this foundation! There is no paid staff at iOrphan, all of us are volunteers. Please join us and make a difference today! See current volunteer opportunities or contact us directly.
Officers

Kirill (Kira) Bogouslavski
CEO & Founder |
Education & Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP); 2005
Chartered Financial
Analyst (CFA); 2000
MBA in Finance and Investment Management; The
Ohio State University; 1997
Master's in Computer Science; The
Far-Eastern State University in Vladivostok,
Russia; 1994
Experience
Since 2005: Principal, Financial Services, Knightsbridge Solutions
2002-2005: President and Founder, Kira Solutions
2001-2002: Director of Information Technology, Diamond
Hill Capital Management
1997-2001: Manager, Covansys consultant at The
State Teachers Retirement Systems of Ohio
1995-1997: Software Engineer for The
Ohio State University Engineering Career Services.
Volunteer
Since 2003: President and Founder of iOrphan.org
Since 2004: Advisor to the Board, Past President (2004-2005) and Co-Founder of OrphanAct.org
2004-2005: International Projects Chair at Rotary Club of Kihei-Wailea. |
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Jonathan Soverns
Chief Operating Officer
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Education
1992-1994: American Institute of Banking: Analyzing Financial Statements and Accounting.
Experience
Since 2004: Indirect Loan Officer – Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union
2003-2004: Sales Associate – Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union
2001-2002: Indirect Loan Officer – Wells Fargo Bank
1999-2000: Loan Servicing – Wells Fargo Bank
1997-1998: Bookkeeping - National Bank of Alaska
1995-1996: Consumer Lending – National Bank of Alaska
1994-1995: Collections – National Bank of Alaska
1993-1994: Management Trainee – National Bank of Alaska
1992-1993: Item Processing – National Bank of Alaska
Volunteer
Since 2004: Chief Operating Officer of iOrphan.org
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Andrei Kersha
Secretary
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Andrei attended Rensselaer and received his BS in Computer Science with minors in Management and Economics. He's spent 10 years in the I.T. market working for industry giants like IBM, General Electric, Iron Mountain as well as many small start-up companies. Andrei has started two companies, received two patents by the 4 th grade, and is always working on the next big opportunity. Currently Andrei is managing the Quality Assurance department at a successful I.T. firm in Massachusetts.
Continuing the family tradition of public service, Andrei joined AFS after arriving to the U.S. 15 years ago. Since then, he has volunteered in many different roles in local communities. Andrei specializes in Ukrainian, Russian translations and being a Slavic cultural ambassador in the United States . He has worked as a translator for FRUA (Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption), CCP (Children of Chernobyl Project) and other non-profit organizations. |
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Raphael Gimashev
Director of Internet Development |
Education
2003-2004: MBA, California State University, San Marcos, CA
1999: MS in Software Engineering, National University, San Diego, CA
1989-1994: MS in Software Engineering, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Ufa, Russia
Experience
Since 2005: Director of Business Development, AME Software Products, Inc.
1999-2004: Senior Software Engineer, AME Software Products, Inc., San Diego, CA
1997-1998: Emergency Response Assistant Coordinator, Exxon Neftegaz Limited, Sakhalin
1996-1997: Oil Spill Response / Environmental Engineer, Ecoshelf, Sakhalin
1995-1996: Environmental Engineer, Hartec Management Consultants, Komi Republic
1994-1995: Material and Logistics Assistant Base Supervisor, Conoco, Komi Republic
Volunteer
Since 2006: Director of Internet Developement for iOrphan.org
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Board of Advisors

Julie Humphrey |
Julie received her B.A. from Hawaii Loa College and her M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She has 20 years of experience in non-profit agencies such as hospitals, domestic violence centers, hospitals and churches. Her work with these groups has ranged from counseling and advocacy to fundraising and public relations. For four years she lived in the Philippines and worked with programs for street children and squatter communities.
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Craig Walker
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Craig founded GrandCentral in November 2005 to solve the problem of having too many different phone numbers and voicemail systems. Getting off a plane and having to check three different voicemail boxes, each with different key prompts, made him realize that this was a growing problem that needed to be solved. Craig had been Senior Director of VoIP at Yahoo! after selling his prior company, Dialpad Communications, to Yahoo! in June 2005.
Craig was a founding investor in Dialpad in 1999 and was recruited by the Board to join the company as CEO in November 2001 to turn around the failing effort. When he joined, Dialpad was losing $4 million per month and had burned through $80+ million in little over 18 months. Craig successfully reorganized the company and changed the business model from a free service with advertising revenue to a pay service. On less than $4 million of total investment in the new company, Dialpad was transformed into the most profitable VoIP company in the industry and was acquired by Yahoo! four years later.
Prior to Dialpad, Craig was a venture investor at Sterling Payot Capital, where he focused on consumer Internet service opportunities. Prior to Sterling, Craig was both General Counsel and Associate at TeleSoft Partners, an early stage telecom focused VC fund, where he was the 4th member of what is now a $500 million global fund. Craig began his career as a corporate and securities attorney in the Silicon Valley at the firms of Gunderson Dettmer, and at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, where he represented companies ranging from early stage start-ups to tier one venture capitalist to Cisco Systems.
Craig received his B.A. from UC Berkeley, his M.B.A. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. |
Staff
Elena Pilieci - Ascent International Orphan Relief Foundation - Toronto, ON
Alfredo Carrión - Nadieshda.org - Tenerife, Spain
Inna Dunaeva - Vladivostok, Russia - Russian Project Coordinator
Angelina Zherevchuk - Gorlovka, Ukraine - Ukrainian Project Coordinator
Evgeny Movchan - Vladivostok, Russia - Project Coordinator
Valentin Bogouslavski - San Francisco, CA - Russian Coordinator (Vladivostok)
Volunteers
Anna Bunin - Translator
Galina Bunin - Translator
Irina Ikatova - Translator
Katia Zhestkova - Marketing & Graphic Design
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