Andrew Paulson

Infobox Person


image_size = 150px
name = Andrew Paulson
caption = Andrew Paulson
birth_date = 1958
birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut
citizenship = American
occupation = SUP Fabrik, President

Andrew Paulson (born in 1958, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American entrepreneur working in Russia. He is the son of noted American professor Ronald Paulson.

Andrew founded SUP [http://www.sup.com] , a Moscow-based Internet company, in 2006 a year after he sold Afisha Publishing House (Afisha Magazine, Bolshoi Gorod Magazine, and MIR), a business he founded in 1998. [cite news
first = Martha
last = Mercer
title = A New Image of Russia
publisher = The New York Sun
date = 2007-03-13
url = http://www.nysun.com/article/50342?page_no=2
accessdate = 2007-11-21] Afisha Magazine is best known as a cultural and listings magazine in the former USSR and spawned a series of other titles. [cite news
first = Maria
last = Danilova
title = Young PR Guru Goes From Kant to Shampoo
publisher = The Moscow Times
date = 2003-10-16
url = http://www.rusnet.nl/news/2003/10/16/report_01_2137.shtml
accessdate = 2007-11-21] Prior to Afisha, Andrew developed several print publishing projects in Moscow: ‘’Delovie Lyudi’’ (Russian: "Деловые люди"), a business monthly which was the first glossy magazine in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union; ‘’Ponedyelnik’’ (Russian: "Понедельник"), a Time/Newsweek-like independent news/business weekly; and an entertainment bi-weekly, ‘’Vechernyaya Moskva’’ (Russian: "Вечерняя Москва")).

As SUP’s first major transaction, Andrew led the LiveJournal licensing agreement with Six Apart that gave SUP rights to use the LiveJournal brand as well as operate portions of the LiveJournal service for Live Journal’s Russian userbase. On the 2nd December 2007 it was announced that SUP had acquired LiveJournal from Six Apart [cite news
title = LiveJournal Grows Increasingly Russian
publisher = NOVECON: Russia/CIS Telecommunications Press Digest
date = 2006-10-19]

References

"The Blogging Czar of Moscow, BusinessWeek: [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_08/b4072066374894.htm]

External links

* [http://www.sup.com/ SUP homepage]