Semrush CEO and leadership

Dmitri Melnikov is a COO at Semrush and is based in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Autonomous City, Russia. He has worked as Board Member at eFind.ru, COO at SEOquake, and Co-Owner at eFind.ru. Dmitri works or has worked as Co-Owner/ President at SEOquake. He attended 410 PARTNERSHIP between 1987 and 1997 and SPBETU, LEEI between 1997 and 2003.

In July 2019, Evgeny Fetisov joined SEMrush as Chief Financial Officer. Evgeny brings a wealth of experience in finance and strategy from his previous roles as CFO at Luxoft and Moscow Exchange.

Del has a track record of successfully leading sales and marketing organizations in all things digital He creatively builds a strategic vision, aligns product opportunities to the vision, creates training and execution plans and implements the strategy with proven experience and success.At Dexmedia (DXM), as the COO, Del was the driver of the company transition from print to multi-media product strategy. Starting at Dexmedia as the EVP- Sales, he quickly identified opportunities in the marketplace and created a bundled strategy that created over 70M in revenue in the first year. This reversed a negative sales trend and has sustained double digits growth for more than four quarters. His leadership motivated the board to promote him to COO to continue the company transformation.Prior to Dexmedia, Del was the EVP of sales and marketing for Paychex. (PAYX). Del was recruited by Paychex to lead the transformation of their sales and marketing strategy and organization. He introduced new sales and marketing structures and organizations that increased new customer acquisition by combining digital lead generation and effective call centers. Del created an environment that was open to new ideas, revenue sources and change.Areas of expertise:Sales and marketing leadership, sales strategy, SaaS, funnel management, marketing strategy, business analysis and forecasting, Salesforce.com integration, creative problem solving and execution, building and managing call centers.Organizational design and development, providing exceptional sales results, marketing and new product development, new channel start up and development, union management and negotiations, and organization restructuring.

Eugene was one of the first investors to spot SEMrush. After joining the company as a Chief Strategy Officer he helped to quadruple company revenue and raised over $40m from Tier 1 investors. Before SEMrush, Eugene was a partner at Target Global, pan-european venture fund that invests in consumer Internet space. There Eugene was in charge of US pipeline and invested in number of notable companies including Blue Apron, Lyft and Juno. Eugene started his VC career as Senior Associate and then Partner at Foresight Ventures. Foresight Ventures was focused on early stage US technology companies and was ranked top 10 Russian VC Firm by Forbes In 2013.

Vitalii Obishchenko is a Chief Product Officer at Semrush and is based in Санкт-Петербург, St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Autonomous City, Russia. He has worked as Product Owner at Semrush, Developer at Semrush, and Developer at SeoQuake Team.

Entrepreneurial, agile B2B leader specializing in growing brand equity and demand generation for midsize enterprises. Focus areas include account-based experience marketing, SaaS/product marketing, demand generation, go-to-market strategy and execution, corporate rebranding and repackaging, analyst relations, building diverse teams, market research, thought leadership, and more.

Dmitri Melnikov is a COO at Semrush and is based in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Autonomous City, Russia. He has worked as Board Member at eFind.ru, COO at SEOquake, and Co-Owner at eFind.ru. Dmitri works or has worked as Co-Owner/ President at SEOquake. He attended 410 PARTNERSHIP between 1987 and 1997 and SPBETU, LEEI between 1997 and 2003.

Dmitri Melnikov is a COO at Semrush and is based in St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Autonomous City, Russia. He has worked as Board Member at eFind.ru, COO at SEOquake, and Co-Owner at eFind.ru. Dmitri works or has worked as Co-Owner/ President at SEOquake. He attended 410 PARTNERSHIP between 1987 and 1997 and SPBETU, LEEI between 1997 and 2003.