Our Analysts

Vladimir Pozdnyakov leads IDC's office in Ukraine and coordinates researches in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Caucasus. Joining IDC in 2005, he oversees operations and research for the PC, server, peripherals, and mobile services market in the country. Vladimir also helps monitor the Ukrainian economy and IT markets on a quarterly basis.

Before joining IDC, Vladimir served at an ITC Publishing house, where he edited one of the Ukraine's most famous and influential IT weekly magazines. He has extensive knowledge of the Ukrainian distribution environment and prepared numerous IT market studies in many of the areas covered by IDC.

Vladimir graduated from the Kiev Military Air University, the Department of Control Systems, and has a Master's of Applied Mathematics.

Aleksey Gvozdenko
Program Manager, IHD & Document Solutions — CIS

Aleksey Gvozdenko joined IDC in 2005 and is responsible for hardcopy peripherals and digital still camera market research. Aleksey also helps monitor the Ukrainian economy and IT markets on a quarterly basis.

Before joining IDC, Aleksey served at an ITC Publishing house as the stuff writer for the one of the Ukraine's most famous and influential IT weekly magazines.

Alexey graduated from the Physics Faculty of the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University in 1996, and has a Master's of Physics with Honor. After graduating the University, he was also working in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for several years.

Andrew Golovnykh
Senior Analyst, Systems and Storage

Andrew Golovnykh joined IDC in February 2006. He is responsible for PC, Server and Disk Storage analysis, researches and projects.

Before joining IDC, Andrew worked in IT media for 10 years, since 1995: first at ComputerWorld/Kiev weekly, then at PC World Ukraine magazine, and since 2000 - at CHIP Ukraine magazine. During 2004-2005 he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief (Hardware) and Testlab Chief at CHIP Ukraine.

Andrew graduated in 1987 from the Civil Aviation Institute in Kyiv (now National Aviation University of Ukraine), the Mechanical Department, and has MS in Aircraft and Engines Maintenance. In 1991-1995 Andrew was an engineer at Antonov Design Bureau (Lofting Department).

Sergey Maschenko joined IDC Ukraine in February 2008. Since 2008 he was responsible for market research activities of PC in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Since 2011 he is responsible for market research activities of Monitors, Media-Tablets and e-Readers in CIS.

Before joining IDC, Sergey worked in IT media for 5 years, since 2003 – at CHIP Ukraine magazine and Hi-Tech PRO magazine. During 2005-2008 he was Editor-in-Chief CD/DVD project at CHIP Ukraine and Hi-Tech PRO.

Sergey graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" in 2003.

Natalia Milko joined IDC in January 2009 and is responsible for hardcopy peripherals, consumables and mobile phone and Smartphone market research. Natalia also provides support in coordinating mobile market research in CEE and MEA countries.

Before joining IDC, Natalia worked in IT- specialized companies: firstly - as Business Development Manager in one of game development company and after that - as Sales Analyst at Microsoft Ukraine.

Natalia graduated from Kiev National Economic University in 2004 with Master degree in International Economy.