Viktor Prokopenya

Viktor Prokopenya (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Прокопеня, Belarusian: Віктар Пракапеня, Viktar Prakapenya, born July 21, 1983) is a technology entrepreneur and venture investor born in Belarus, now living in London, UK. In 2001, he created Viaden Media, a software development company. After its sale in 2011, he founded the i, in 2011, he founded the investment company VP Capital in 2012. Prokopenya is the architect of the Belarusian Decree on Development of Digital Economy.[1][2] For this work, Viktor Prokopenya has been awarded in the Parliament of Great Britain.[3] He was Belarus's top taxpayer in 2016 and 2017, and over the past 10 years has been the country's highest taxpayer at least five times.[4]

Viktor Prokopenya
Born (1983-07-21) July 21, 1983
Minsk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
OccupationExecutive Director at VP Capital (2012—present)

Education

Viktor Prokopenya was born in Minsk, in the former Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1983. His parents were both scientists: his father received a doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences, worked at the Belarusian State University and later at the Belarusian National Technical University, and his mother was a mathematician. He studied at schools No. 2 and No. 130, where he graduated with distinction. He received a bachelor's degree in law from the Belarusian State University, a bachelor's degree in information technology from the European Humanities University and a degree in software development from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. He also graduated from the Minsk IPM Business School, gaining a master's degree in business administration, before continuing his higher education in the US at Full Sail University (gaining a master's degree in internet marketing), Stanford Graduate School of Business ((executive MBA course in strategic marketing) and Northeastern University in Boston (master's degree in finance). In 2017 he completed his doctorate in business administration at the SBS Swiss Business School.[5][6][7][8]

Entrepreneurship

Viaden Media

Aged 16, Prokopenya took on the responsibility of caring for his family after his father, who had started a business in the 1990s, died in a car accident. In the 2000s, Prokopenya focused on IT consulting, founding and running IT company Viaden Media. In 2006, he reoriented Viaden to develop IT products.[9][10][8]

In 2009, the company launched a mobile applications department, developing many top-rated applications including All-in Fitness, which sustained top-ranking positions on the AppStore (Healthcare & Fitness category) in 40 countries for several months. Viaden achieved in excess of 200 million mobile application installations. By 2011, Viaden had achieved more than 200 million mobile application installations and was the largest mobile phone software developer in the post-Soviet region.[11][12][13]

Prokopenya ran the company until 2011, when he sold it for €95 million to Teddy Sagi, an Israeli entrepreneur and founder of software company Playtech. This was the first sizable acquisition in the history of the Belarusian IT industry. Later, Viaden Media was divided into two companies: Sport.com (a large developer of fitness applications and owner of the Sport.com and Yoga.com websites) and the Skywind Group (which specialises in mobile and social games).[11][14][12][13]

VP Capital
Viktor Prokopenya, May 2018

In 2012, Prokopenya founded investment company VP Capital, which specializes in the technology sector. Later that year he founded the fintech company exp(capital), which develops solutions for banks and brokers by constructing algorithms for high-frequency market making. The company's headquarters are located in the Belarus High Technologies Park. exp(capital) was ranked the best employer of the year in 2014. Its mobile applications department was later acquired by British company IG Holdings for an undisclosed sum.[15][10][16]

Prokopenya established VP Capital Real Estate in 2012 and acquired a number of key commercial real-estate assets in the center of Minsk. By 2017, the company had become the largest private owner of real estate in Minsk.[17][10][13][16]

In December 2016, together with the Larnabel Ventures Fund, Prokopenya announced his intention to invest more than $100 million in artificial intelligence start-up businesses. From 2017 to 2019, the partners announced six investment agreements on a parity basis, in which they invested equally:[17][16]

  • VP Capital and Larnabel Ventures, together with Vast Ventures and GVA Capital, invested $16 million in the Russian-American company Astro Digital, which develops satellites and a real-time monitoring system of the Earth's surface. On July 14, 2017, the company successfully launched its first two satellites into orbit. By the end of 2020, the company had 11 satellites.[18][16]
  • The partners invested an initial $5 million in Banuba, plus an additional investment of $7 million in November 2018. From its development center in Minsk, Banuba creates applications based on augmented reality technologies, specialising in neural networks and machine-learning algorithms that are capable of revealing and identifying objects and facial expressions in real time.[19][16][17]
  • The partners took a stake in Dronefence, a company that develops defences against unmanned aerial vehicles. The investment size was undisclosed.[20]
  • Capital.com, a fintech startup developing mobile applications for retail investors was allocated $25 million. The AI-enhanced application allows users to trade a wide range of financial instruments from their smartphones and provides them with access to educational materials.[16]
  • VP Capital and Larnabel Ventures invested $2 million in FaceMetrics, a startup that specializes in artificial intelligence apps for child education. At the end of 2019, Facemetrics became part of Banuba.[21][16]
  • VP Capital and Larnabel Ventures invested $10 million in Currency.com, the world's first regulated tokenised securities exchange.[16]

Attempt to acquire a bank

In the summer of 2017, VP Capital announced plans to acquire two banks simultaneously: the Belarusian Paritetbank and the Ukrainian division of the Russian Sberbank.[22] The Belarusian authorities had approved the $50 million deal and welcomed the Belarusian investor coming in to the banking sector, given Prokopenya's good reputation and experience in the IT sector.[23][24] In an interview with TUT.BY, Prokopenya claimed that the bank acquisition was an important next step in his experience in IT and fintech.[22]

On August 3, 2017, Prokopenya withdrew the application for the purchase of a subsidiary of Sberbank and refused to purchase Paritetbank. Later, on August 16, 2017, a presidential edict approving the sale of Paritetbank was abolished (by decree of the President of Belarus No. 289). VP Capital said it would focus on its fintech business Capital.com.[25][26]

Top taxpayer of Belarus

Viktor Prokopenya was the highest taxpayer in Belarus in 2016 and 2017.[27][28] According to TUT.BY, over the past 10 years, Prokopenya has been the country's largest taxpayer at least five times.[4]

Decree on the Development of a Digital Economy

In March 2017 Viktor Prokopenya proposed the development of legislation for the use of autonomous cars,[29] cryptocurrency[30] and the development of initiatives designed to stimulate the IT industry in Belarus.[31] On December 22, 2017, President Alexander Lukashenko signed into law the Decree on the Development of a Digital Economy.[32]

Viktor Prokopenya initiated legislation changes that aimed to introduce special tax remunerations for the IT sector until 2049, to remove bureaucracy and regulate distributed ledger technologies. The legislation is called Decree 8 and was approved and put into force on March 28, 2018.[33][34][35]

The Decree 8 initiative was criticized by Belarussian economist Sergey Chaly, who argued that it doesn't necessarily help the broader economy when the IT industry receives a special tax regime. But as a result of Decree 8 regulations, the IT sector grew 40% in 2018, contributing to 25% of Belarusian GDP growth. Nonetheless, a debate ensued. Denis Filazafovich on the Kastrychnicki economic forum said that he didn't see how growth could continue at such a rate.[36] Prokopenya argued that providing improved fiscal incentives will make IT grow, not at the expense of Belarussian economy but due to increasing the Belarussian IT sector share in international markets. He argued that Belarus will get more export proceeds and that the whole economy would grow due to a multiplier effect.[37][38] Viktor Martinovich argued that regulating IT under different rules compared with the rest of economy is not a sustainable practice, and that it is necessary to make structural changes in both the economy and government to develop Belarus as a whole economy.[39] Viktor Prokopenya invited Chaly to publicly discuss the new legislation concerning the regulation of the IT industry and cryptocurrencies. Chaly initially agreed but later changed his mind.[40]

Ministry of Digital Economy

In 2017, Prokopenya proposed the creation of a Ministry of Digital Economy, to be responsible for the digitalisation of Belarus. According to Prokopenya, the Administration of the High Tech Park is now resolving these state issues. In April 2019, at a meeting between the president and the IT business, Lukashenko approved this initiative.[41][42]

Public initiatives
Viktor Prokopenya

Campaign against death penalty

On November 5, 2018, at the International Economic Forum (IEF) Prokopenya supported the idea of abolishing the death penalty in Belarus.[43] He argued that this is good for society and that it would reduce the cost of interest payouts on the state debt of Belarus. Prokopenya noted that Belarus pays around 5% a year interest on debt obligations, a high rate for a country that has debt totaling less than 30% of its GDP. Critics argued that his calculations are inaccurate and that there is no connection between abolishing the death penalty in Belarus and reducing the country's debt burden. Others agreed that abolition of the death penalty would improve relations between Belarus and the European Union, and that this could affect the rating of the Belarusian Eurobonds and possibly render new debt cheaper.[44][45][46][47]

Education reform initiatives

Viktor Prokopenya speaks regularly in public about the limited number of specialists within the new Belarusian IT economy and the low level of IT education among university graduates. In November 2018 he stated: "One of the latest initiatives of our community is to send $15 million to IT education from the [Belarus] High Tech Park fund. Every year we can teach thousands of students."[48][49] In October 2019, President Lukashenko supported Prokopenya's proposal to create an experimental IT university. Lukashenko also supported Prokopenya's idea to introduce interest-free loans for education.[50]

Viktor Prokopenya talks regularly about the digitalization of schools.[51] In December 2018, VP Capital and Prokopenyа personally presented 600 tablets with preloaded textbooks in Russian and Belarusian to students of Belarusian schools. In April 2019, Prokopenya proposed ideas for improving the school system to President Lukashenko, including electronic document management, virtual video tutorials, a personalised teaching method and in-depth career guidance. Prokopenya suggested more English lessons in Belarusian schools, and changing the curriculum and teacher-payment system.[52][53][49][54][55] Lukashenko supported these initiatives and some of them will be adopted in the near future. Some will be tested first in a limited number of schools.[56][57]

Detention and media relations

In the spring of 2015, Viktor Prokopenya was detained by Belarusian state authorities, suspected of earning profits of $650,000 through unregistered business activity. Deutsche Welle and Belarusian IT experts alleged that his detention could potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the country. The IT business community came to the defense of Prokopenya, who was released on bail. In February 2016, all allegations against him were dropped after the Belarusian authorities failed to uncover any violations.[58][59][60][61]

The story of the investigation gained widespread media coverage in Belarus. At the end of 2017, Prokopenya's legal advisors approached a number of Belarusian media channels including BelaPAN, BelTA, European Radio for Belarus, Narodnaja Volya, Nasha Niva, Onliner.by, and TUT.BY, requesting the removal or correction of old news stories that contained incorrect information. In their opinion, the facts in the stories were legally incorrect.[62] Many outlets agreed that the information was incorrect and corrected the publications or deleted them, provoking discussion around journalism ethics.[63][64]

Prokopenya has repeatedly spoken out publicly in defense of the media and against state pressure on news sites. In January 2018, he opposed the blocking of Charter 97 and Belarusian Partisan sites. Prokopenya said that blocking sites would complicate international relations and damage the image of Belarus.[65][66] In August 2018, the businessman wrote in the media that the power structures of Belarus should release the detained journalists and editors of TUT.BY, BelaPAN and other Belarusian media. He said that detaining journalists is a huge step backwards for Belarus.[67]

Honours and awards

The Belarusian media has repeatedly included Prokopenya in the rankings of notable Belarusian entrepreneurs. In the list of the 200 most successful and influential businessmen of Belarus, published by the Ezhednevnik news site, Prokopenya was awarded 184th place in 2011,[68] 47th in 2013,[69] 45th in 2016,[70] 23rd in 2017,[71] 12th in 2018,[72] and 9th in 2019.[73] In the list of the 25 most influential businessmen of Belarus from 1992 to 2017, also published by Ezhednevnik, he received 13th place.[74] Viktor Prokopenya has been named Belarus's Entrepreneur of the Year three times.[75]

In 2019, in the UK parliament, Prokopenya was awarded for his outstanding contribution to the development of the legislation in the IT area in Belarus and for the creation of one of the most beneficial legal frameworks for IT businesses in post-Soviet countries.[76]

In April 2020, Prokopenya had 6.5 million followers on Instagram, making him the most followed Instagrammer in Belarus.[77][78]

Personal life

Prokopenya is married and has three sons, Mikhail, Mark and Artur.[79][80] He lives and works in London. His hobbies include photography, hockey, snowboarding, diving, cycling and reading.[69][13][6]

Publications
  • Ben-David, Itzhak; Birru, Justin & Prokopenya, Viktor (2018). "Uninformative Feedback and Risk Taking". Review of Finance. doi:10.1093/rof/rfy022.

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