Ivan A. Smolentsev graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics in 2000 on the Communication Networks and Switching Systems specialty.

Upon graduating the University he worked at different telecommunication area enterprises of Russian Federation. Till coming to BUZTON he took a post as the Director of CIS enterprises Management EDN Sovintel LLC comprising Golden Telecom Company Group.

Since 2008 he is a General Director of BUZTON JV. He exercises management of the activity and business control. He provides execution of the BUZTON Board and General Meeting of Participants’ decisions.