30 years in the IT industry in the field of GR. Has a higher legal education, MBA. Certificates in GR and Public Administration from MGIMO and RANEPA. Held senior GR positions in the following companies: ConsultantPlus, 1C, InfoWatch, MDG. RUSSOFT representative in APKIT, in particular: member of the Council for the Development of IT Specialist Certification, member of the Council for Sustainable Digital Development. RUSSOFT representative in the Expert Council on Regulatory Policy under the ANO ‘Digital Economy’. Head of the IT Committee of the National Champions Association. Expert of ANO Digital Economy. Member of the Council for
Member of the Council for the Development of Information Technologies and Digital Economy of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Expert of the Bortnik Foundation. Speaker at MGIMO, Moscow State University and Moscow State Law Academy.

He has more than 50 scientific publications and 5 certificates of state registration of software. Graduated from Taganrog State Radio Engineering University. 

He was repeatedly included in the TOP 250 of the All-Russian rating of the СEO magazine. Since 2016, Member of the Board of RUSSOFT. 

Ensured the interaction of RUSSOFT with the IT Education Support Fund of the Rostov Region and with the Agency for Digital Development and Communications of the Krasnodar Territory. An active member of the RUSSOFT Committee for the development, training and retraining of personnel. He co-organized the All-Russian youth IT forum "FEATURE".

Director of Government Relations at PIX Robotics, Chairman of the RUSSOFT Artificial Intelligence Committee, Chairman of the RPA Cluster in the Russian Electronic Communications Association, founder of the Academy for RPA-specialists training. He is a member of the APKIT IT Certification Council, a member of the Association of software product developers “Domestic Soft” AI Committee, a member of the “Ethics in AI” working group, chairman of the organizing committee of the AI Forum at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, ITC at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center, and the Techno 2024 Forum at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

In 2001 he started his career at VDI, which in 2006 became part of EPAM, an international leader in custom development. He rose from C++ developer to CEO of RNT Group (EPAM's rights holder in Russia). In his career he has also held positions of Director of Operations, HRD, leader of large EPAM projects in such areas as: capital markets, banks, industry, mining in Russia and global market, Senior Director of EPAM Business Development in Russia. Has strong contacts and major customers in heavy industry, energy, and telecommunications.

Worked as a system integration specialist for state enterprises and organizations at UNI Corporation CJSC and as a business development manager of the communications systems department at SATEL LLC. He held the position of Director for Business Development at OCS Center LLC. He was First Deputy General Director of HaiTech LLC.

Expert of NTI, Moscow Innovation Agency, RFRIT. Lecturer at the Higher School of Economics, author of a book, over 100 articles and 1,300+ educating videos. Mentor of accelerator programmes at Sberbank, Google, Roscongress, MIPT, Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Public Assistant to the Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights in IT in Altai Krai. Chairman of the Board of the Altai community in Moscow. Head of RUSSOFT SME Committee. 

Graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in 1978. Completed a course of Manchester Business School (MBS) on the privatization of industrial enterprises in 1993 and a course of advanced training at the Diplomatic Academy on international cooperation in 1997. During the decade from 1978 to 1988 was working as a defence enterprise engineer at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. From 1988 to 1992 - secretary of the USSR Mission to UNESCO. From 1992 to 1995 – deputy director of the office of the ‘Interprivatization’ Fund. From 1995 to 1996 - executive director of the Association of Special Economic Zones of Saint-Petersburg. From 1996 to 2000 - Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of Saint-Petersburg. From 1999 – President of ‘Fort-Ross’ - Saint-Petersburg Consortium of software developers, which was transformed into Non-Commercial Partnership ‘RUSSOFT’ after merging with NSDA Association in 2004. Valentin Makarov is also a member of the Board of APKIT, a member of the Expert Council at the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, a member of the IT-Associations at the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The leader of the SafeNet working group at the National Technology Initiative.

For more than 10 years, he headed system software development businesses (founder of Rosplatform, Vice President of Virtuozzo (Parallels Group), CTO/CEO of ROSA "Russian Operating Systems"). Previously - 10 years of scientific career (Head of the operating systems sector of ISP RAS). 

Expert of specialized working groups under the Government of the Russian Federation. Executive Secretary of the Subcommittee on Standardization of Programming Languages in ISO. Lecturer at MIPT and MSU.  An active member of the Russian community of developers of free (open-source) software.

Founder, visionary and CEO of the Russian technology company Getmobit. Responsible for the strategic vision and development of the company. Nominee of the rating of the professional IT community "Top 100 IT leaders" of Russia (2022, 2023). Candidate of Economic Sciences. She has worked in senior positions in Russian and international IT companies, including Aquarius LLC, Autograph LLC, Systematics LLC, NCC, IBM Corporation. The main focus in the work of the associations is the integration of positions and the development of unified approaches to promote the interests of innovative companies (small businesses), the protection of positions at the federal and corporate levels.

In IT-industry since 1980, among other things, he was engaged in the development of image recognition systems, automatic proof search systems, simulators. Since the mid-1990s, he has been engaged in the development, localization and implementation of free software. Attaches great importance to the participation of Russian developers in key international free software development projects. Defends the need for the widespread use of SPO in OT-education at all levels.

Member of the Expert Council at the Ministry of Finance on the formation of a Unified register of Russian programs. Freelance Advisor to the Minister of Digital Development on operating Systems. Chairman of the Central Committee "Operating Systems".

Founder and head of the Osminozhka IT company. A visionary in the field of artificial intelligence and Web3 technologies, as well as their adaptation to corporate business processes. Regular speaker at the main IT conferences in Russia. Has experience in launching innovative products on the market. Graduated from MIPT with a degree in Technological Entrepreneurship.