Ilya Sachkov (Russian: ???? ??????) is a Russian IT entrepreneur, founder and CEO of international cybersecurity company Group-IB, known for its Threat Intelligence, considered one of the most efficient in the world, and profound expertise in Russian hacking underground community.
Ilya is a member of the World Economic Forum Center for Cybersecurity, member of cybercrime expert committees in the Council of Europe and the OSCE.
He is one of the 27 prominent independent commissioners of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
He is a co-chairman of the Cybercrime Committee at the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) and the Coordination Center for TLD RU.
In 2016, he received the "30 under 30" award in "Enterprise Tech" category of Forbes magazine and has been featured in similar Russian ratings.
In 2015-2017, Ilya was awarded with the EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Award three times .
In 2018, Sachkov made it to the Russian Reporter and Russia Beyond the Headlines people of the year lists.
In 2019, he has been named a winner of the Nemaly Business Prize in the category “Innovative Breakthrough” and was listed among top 100 young economic leaders by the French Institute Choiseul.