Roman Malakhov

Age: 40 years

CEO of Kaliningrad game studio Panzerdog. The company released the mobile shooter Tacticool, which was recognized as the best mobile game by GTP INDIE CUP SUMMER 2018 and was among the finalists of NGDC 2018. Developers won the Google Play Award for Best Competitive Game in 2019 for this product. In two and a half years, Tacticool has been downloaded by players from the United States, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and other countries more than 20 million times. The company’s annual revenue is about one and a half billion rubles.

Panzerdog is a Russian-Finnish publisher and developer of games for mobile devices. The company was founded in 2016 and is part of the Russian technology corporation VK (formerly Mail.ru Group). The headquarters is located in Helsinki, and the main development office is in Kaliningrad. Currently, the team has more than 50 employees, most of them involved in the development and support of the shooter Tacticool.

Before entering the video game industry, Roman founded a software development company that implemented several federal projects for pay-TV operators. His organization later became an OTT provider, amassing more than one million installations in Smart TV applications and a loyal subscriber base.