Sergei Alexandrovich Shilov was born on October 2, 1977 in the city of Salavat, Republic of Bashkortostan.
After finishing school, Sergei was admitted to the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University without exams. He graduated with honors in 1999. In 2007, he completed the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School, earning an MBA. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as an IT consultant at the international company Accenture.
In 2001, Sergey Shilov established AT Consulting, a company that focuses on providing IT services. The company's portfolio includes numerous significant projects that have impacted the growth of the domestic IT industry. Its main areas of operation include implementing and servicing complex information systems, management and operational business consulting, custom software development, and IT outsourcing. The company's teams develop advanced modern technologies and possess expertise in artificial intelligence, cloud and mobile solutions, Data Science, and more.
AT Consulting has been engaged in several major projects in the government and financial sectors. It has collaborated with PJSC Rostelecom on projects related to the e-government concept. By the end of 2015, AT Consulting was listed among the top 20 largest Russian IT companies according to the TAdviser rating. In the same year, AT Consulting was ranked among the top three leading companies in the country in the field of IT consulting in a joint rating by “Expert RA” and “Kommersant. Money”.
In 2017, Shilov established the Digital Economy League and became its president. The Digital Economy League consists of companies that offer professional services in the realm of information and digital technologies.
The League's projects encompass a wide array of industries, including the public sector, fuel and energy complex, finance, telecommunications, and industry. The Digital Economy League employs over 5,300 highly qualified experts across various fields. The client base includes major representatives from key sectors of the economy such as VTB Group, Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, VEON, MTS, Rosneft, Rosseti, Inter RAO, Norilsk Nickel, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and more.
Under Shilov's leadership, the Digital Economy League has become one of the prominent companies in the Russian IT services market. At the end of 2021, it secured the 18th place in the CNews rating “The largest IT companies in Russia”. Additionally, the League achieved 1st place in the CNews rating “The largest providers of data analysis solutions in Russia 2021”, 1st place in the TAdviser rating “The largest providers of BI solutions in Russia” 2021, and 1st place among domestic solution support outsourcers SAP according to TAdviser in 2022. Furthermore, the company secured the 4th place among developers and suppliers of Russian ICT solutions in the CNews review and the 6th place among the largest Russian developers of mobile applications for business and the public sector according to TAdviser in 2022.
Currently, Sergey Shilov is responsible for strategic decisions on the development of the Digital Economy League, determines financial, marketing and personnel policies, oversees the preparation of new contracts, as well as current projects.
Married, has five children.
Sergey Shilov’s companies are participants in socially significant public projects.
In 2020, Shilov, on behalf of the League of Digital Economy, signed an agreement with MGIMO and launched an international program for training IT specialists in the “Smart City” direction together with the South Korean Yonsei University. In 2019, the League became the sponsor of the Russian Basketball Federation. In 2019, AT Consulting became a partner of the “Memory of Generations” exhibition dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition was held in the Manezh, its exposition was represented by 150 works of painting and sculpture from 34 cities of Russia.