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Maxim Yevdokimov has been Vice President and Head of Mobile at Tinkoff Bank since May 2013. Maxim is leading Tinkoff mobile team in the development of its award-winning mobile apps, including Tinkoff Mobile Bank (recognized as the best mobile bank in Russia in 2013-2015 by Deloitte), MoneyTalk (an app that combines an instant mobile messenger with money transfers – recognized as the best non–bank app in Russia in 2015), Traffic Fines App (the most popular mobile app for traffic fines check&pay services in Russia).
Prior to joining Tinkoff Maxim was head of Mobi.Dengi, a mobile payment service and before that he was head of Summa Telecom Ukraine, an internet provider, having built the company from scratch.
Maxim has also provided consulting services to Azerfon, a mobile operator in Azerbaijan, helping the company rapidly grow its subscriber base and was Head of the Product and Service Development Department at Megafon.