Zhenya joined Accel in 2023 and has a particular interest in AI, developer tooling, and workplace automation businesses. He has led Accel’s investments in Axle Energy, CodeSpeak, Polars, Keenable, Recraft and Viktor and works closely with Framer and Lovable.Prior to Accel, Zhenya held roles in multiple Accel portfolio companies. Most recently, Zhenya was CRO at Miro where he ran a 700-person GTM team across 12 global offices.

Prior to Miro, Zhenya was Segment’s COO. Here, he built and ran a GTM team of more than 200 people and expanded the product-market fit into the enterprise. This then led to Segment’s acquisition by Twilio for $3.2B. Before Segment, Zhenya led teams at Dropbox across a number of different functional areas.

Zhenya holds a mathematics degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.