Hryhorovych Serhiy

Serhiy Hryhorovych

Serhiy Hryhorovych sings at Stalker Fest 2009

Serhiy Hryhorovych sings at Stalker Fest 2009
Born (1978-04-18)April 18, 1978
Kiev, Ukraine
Occupation game-developer, businessman

Hryhorovych Serhiy Kostyantynovych (Ukrainian: Григорович Сергій Костянтинович) is a Ukrainian game-developer, businessman, founder and CEO of GSC Game World. One of authors of world's game bestsellers - games Cossaks and Stalker. He was born in 1978 in Kiev, Obolon' District. His father was an radiotechnitian, mother worked as a journalist. Serhiy has a brother Yevhen, who also worked at GSC and led the project Cossaks II.

Biography

Early years

Being 5-th form schoolboy, Serhiy Hryhorovych went to France by school change program. From there he brought a computer game, which he, being 12 years old rented to his classmates, earning first money in such a way. From the 6-th form he started trading with software and computer games and different radio tools. At 16 years he founded a company GSC Game World, named after Latinized initials of his full name. Interesting fact: he created logo of his future company being 12 years old.

Adult period

After graduating school, Serhiy Hryhorovych goes to the Radioengineering department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Due to excessive business deals, he couldn't pass through the first exam winter session. Then he tried to apply to International Science-Technical University to the speciality of Economics, that he succeed in. But after the first semester he left studying.

Awards

2008 - award in nomination " All life achieving" in national ceremony "Proud of the Nation-2008".

2010 - Serhiy Hryhorovych was a winner of the national stage of "Entrepreneur 2010" contest and the winner in nomination "Innovative business ideas". In June 2011 he presented Ukraine on international final stage in Monte-Carlo (Monaco).[1]

References

  1. ↑ "WebCite query result". webcitation.org. Retrieved 2015-11-27.

External links

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