David Yang

ABBYY

In 1989 together with Alexander Moskalev, he founded Bit Software (ABBYY), David Yang is chairman of the board of directors of this company.

In 1998 ABBYY began developing the world's first communicator called Cybiko. The first samples were released for sale in the US in 2000. By the end of 2000, the company had managed to sell over 500 thousand devices. However, the project was soon closed.

For 2008 the company's annual turnover was $80–85 million, according to financial experts. The company's share in the IT market segment in Russia exceeded 95%, in Europe – more than 50%, in the USA – less than 30%.

In 2012, according to IC Finam, ABBYY's revenue amounted to $230–240 million.

In 2013 ABBYY participated in a project that created Gutenberg digital libraries.

As of 2014, ABBYY included 14 companies located in the US, Canada and Japan. The number of employees exceeded 1 250 people. In the same year ABBYY products had sales in 200 countries, and the number of users was more than 40 million people.

In 2016 ABBYY launched the project Findo.io. It helps the user to search for information among personal documents, contacts, mailboxes and social networks.

In 2018 ABBYY collaborated with both companies in the domestic IT market and global companies. ABBYY's partners were more than 400 companies from all over the world, including Samsung, Fujitsu, Epson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, RICOH, Xerox and others.

Sberbank, VTB, Raiffeisenbank, Alfa-Bank, Tinkoff Bank, Soglasie, Vostokgazprom, SIBUR, MTS, Tele-2, PwC, the Federal Tax Service, the State Duma used ABBYY solutions based on artificial intelligence technology in their work.

In 2022 ABBYY left Russia, starting to position itself as an international company with headquarters in the United States.

David Yang is married and has three children. A supporter of a healthy lifestyle and monitoring nutrition, in 2013 he wrote a book about healthy food called "Now I eat whatever I want!" (Russian: «Теперь я ем все, что хочу!»).