Andrew Filev

Andrew Filev is the founder of Wrike, a collaborative work management platform that was acquired by Citrix in March 2021. Filev began writing software at a young age and founded his first software consulting company at age 17. As a young entrepreneur with a fast-growing business, he quickly grasped the challenges organizations faced in scaling a successful operation. Frustrated with the limitations of working through email and spreadsheets, Filev founded Wrike in 2006 to focus solely on building collaborative tools that could improve the way businesses work. Under Filev’s leadership, Wrike has been consistently recognized for its excellent product and tremendous growth. In 2020, Wrike was included on Deloitte’s Technology Fast™ 500 list for the sixth consecutive year and was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave on Collaborative Work Management Enterprise Tools for the third time. Filev has more than 15 years of experience in the technology sector and his insights on entrepreneurship, productivity, and the future of work have been featured in leading business publications, including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., and The New York Times. He has also led talks at numerous conferences, including Collision Conference, the Project Management Institute Global Conference, SaaStr Annual, CeBIT, Google Cloud Next, and Montgomery Summit.