Petr Skobelev Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Professor Petr Skobelev (1960) is an entrepreneur and innovation catalyst in the software Industry and Evangelist of Multi-Agent Technologies (MAT) for solving complex problems.

In 1983 - 1991 Petr Skobelev was the chief developer of real-time measurement and control systems, image processing and pattern recognition systems, intelligent simulation and expert systems for Samara Branch of Lebedev Physical Institute and Institute of Complex System of Russian Academy of Science.

With the beginning of Perestroika in 1991, he built from scratch several successful software development companies that delivered software in Russia, UK, Germany and USA.

In 1990 he met the UK Professor George Rzevski and they started first collaborative research and design projects in the area of multi-agent systems. As a result, in 1991, Petr founded ArtLog, Ltd (Samara, Russia) developing multi-agent tutoring systems and in 1997, Knowledge Genesis, Ltd (Samara, Russia) for multi-agent e-Government applications.

In 2000 Petr and George raised capital from the UK investors and founded Magenta Technology (London, UK and Samara, Russia).
Petr took the role of Magenta Technology Director and Director of Software Development Centre in Samara, which produced industrial solutions for real-time scheduling and optimization, pattern recognition, data mining and text understanding applications.

Combining strategic vision with real-life business experience, Petr is a successful lead developer and chief architect of a number of advanced MAT applications.

Starting from 2009 Petr is working as independent entrepreneur and tech leader for developing a new generation of MAT platforms
and solutions which are built as p2p networks of MAT systems.

He has a PhD Degree in Functional Programming Languages and Artificial Intelligence for Aerospace Applications and DSc Degree
and status of a Professor in Multi-Agent Systems.

Professor Skobelev is author of more than 50 publication and 3 patents in multi-agent systems and technologies.