Dmitry Itskov
Russian billionaire entrepreneur
Dmitry Itskov (Russian: Дмитрий Ицков; born 1980) is a Russian entrepreneur, billionaire and the founder of New Media Stars (Russian: Ньюмедиа Старз, romanized: N'yumedia Starz, a web-based media company), and of the 2045 Initiative. He has made a reported £1bn from his Moscow-based news-publishing company.
01Biography
He was born in Bryansk. He graduated from Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics.
Together with State Duma deputy Konstantin Rykov, he was involved in large-scale PR campaigns for United Russia.
02Career
In 2005, he created New Media Stars in Moscow.
In 2011, he set up 2045 Initiative, which aims to achieve cybernetic immortality by 2045.
In 2012, Itskov sent an open letter to the richest people in the world from the Forbes list with a request to join forces in the development of technologies that will prolong human life and make it immortal.
In May 2012, he and his colleagues demonstrated a humanoid robot (his own replica) at the initial stage of development.
On June 15 and 16, 2013, the Global Future 2045 conference was held in New York City. Global Future 2045 is founded by Itskov, its first meeting was in Moscow.
Itskov said, in a 2016 BBC Horizon TV documentary, that the "ultimate goal of [his] plan is to transfer someone’s personality into the new artificial carrier."
03Awards and honours
- Commendation from the President of the Russian Federation (December 16, 2009), for active participation in the creation of the Internet documentary "War 08.08.08. The Art of betrayal"
04Personal life
His father Ilya Itskov directed musical theater and his mother was a schoolteacher.
Sources and credits
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