Management Team
SaM Solutions creates open partner relationships with its customers. Software Outsourcing means for us not only effective collaboration but also personal support and team work. Get to know the management of the SaM group.
SaM Solutions GmbH
Dr. Andrei Bakhirev
Managing Director, SaM Solutions GmbH
Member of Management Board
Andrei Bakhirev is a graduate and a former Head of Department at the Belarusian State University for Informatics and Electronics Engineering in Minsk. Being a holder of the scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Institution (DAAD) he also worked as an associate professor at the university in Kassel in 1992-1993. In 1993 Mr. Bakhirev founded SaM Solutions with a small team of fellow graduates and professors of the University. Under his leadership the company grew to 70 employees in 1998. Since 1998 Andrei Bakhirev has moved to Germany and took over the management of SaM Solutions GmbH, while the company today has over 600 employees globally – in the US, Western Europe, Belarus and the Ukraine.
Anton Dechko
Director of Business Development, SaM Solutions GmbH
Member of Management Board
Anton Dechko graduated from the Minsk State Linguistic University with the major in International Communications in 2000, he also completed a two-year Business Administration post-graduate study at the Belarusian State University in 2007. Mr. Dechko started his career in the Marketing Department at SaM Solutions Minsk company in 2000 and advanced his career to positions of Marketing Director and later Director of Business Development Minsk. In 2007 Mr. Dechko moved to the German headquarters of the company to take up the responsibility for European sales and client accounts.
Management article - Anton Dechko: Way to Successful Outsourcing
SaM Solutions US
Aaron Cope
Head of Operations, SaM Solutions US
Joining SaM Solutions in January, 2010, Aaron Cope brings to the company an extensive mortgage financial application background, good knowledge of technology, business and administration principles and strong commercial and analytical skills. Mr. Cope graduated from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan and began his career in mortgage in 1998 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2004 Mr. Cope moved to Ocala, Florida where he was the Director of Program Management, New Product Development for Taylor, Bean and Whitaker Mortgage Company, and where he demonstrated excellence in management, monitoring, reporting and communication with new suppliers in the field of information technology.
As Head of Operations for SaM Solutions, US, Mr. Cope's responsibilities include determination, effective planning and direction of the long-term strategic objectives for maintaining and developing SaM’s business growth in the USA, US client management and broadening SaM Solutions' reach in the US market.
SaM Solutions Belarus
Marat Ebzeev
Managing Director, SaM Solutions Belarus
In 1989 Marat Ebzeev graduated from the Belarusian State University with a Major in Law Science. At the beginning of his career he worked as a Supervisor in the controlling department of a large Belarusian plant. In 1995 he advanced his career to the position of a Legal Advisor at a closed joint-stock production company in Belarus. With high ambitions, business potential and strive for success, in early 2002 Marat joined SaM Solutions taking the position of the company’s Lawyer. Since 2005 he was promoted to the position of the Managing Director at SaM Solutions Belarus.
With the goal of promoting SaM Solutions in the market of leading IT technology outsourcing companies, Mr. Ebzeev has managed to develop the corporate management practices for SaM Solutions Minsk that considerably increased the company’s long-term commitment to the satisfaction and competitiveness of the customers.
Valeri Grouchev
Director of Delivery, SaM Solutions Belarus
With over 15 years of experience in IT business, Valeri Grouchev recently holds the position of the Director of Delivery at SaM Solutions Belarus. In this position he has enhanced the delivery structure of SaM which is aimed at the increase in the quality level of the company’s management and IT service deliverables as well as at the promotion of SaM Solutions in the new business environment.
Valeri Grouchev graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Electronics Engineering with the Major in Computer Science and in 1992 defended the doctoral thesis on the Database Management Systems.
Working in SaM since the year of its foundation, Valeri has applied all his professional knowledge, talent and advanced technology vision for the prosperity of the company and accumulated an indispensable experience in IT outsourcing. He started his career as a system programmer for UNIX platforms focused on data bases, in a couple of years advanced to the position of Project Manager and further on – to the Unit Manager. Under his guidance and supervision SaM Solutions successfully completed a number of value-added Java projects for the American customers in real estate business industry.
SaM Solutions Ukraine
Sergej Raykov
Managing Director, SaM Solutions Ukraine
Sergej Raykov is Managing Director of SaM Solutions Ukraine and is responsible for the administrative part of IT products and services allocation process in that region.
Prior to joining SaM in 2008, between 2006 and 2008 Mr. Raykov held several different roles such as FEA Department Manager for REHAU Ltd. (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Procurement Manager/International Relations at AKSOR Group (branch establishment of MIROPLAST Ltd, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) and Gulliver Auto Ltd. (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine). In 1999-2005 Sergej worked for such world giants as the Michelin GmbH tires manufacturer (Hallstadt, Germany), TRUMPF GmbH (Baunach, Germany), Brose GmbH (Hallstadt and Coburg, Germany).
During his work at SaM Solutions Mr. Raykov has adopted a number of modern IT management strategies helping to ensure the high quality of the company’s IT procedures and processes and to enhance the corporative business operations.
