5 Questions (and Answers) With Ilia Alekseev, Managing Director, Spotify Russia & CIS
(World News Russia)

For IliaAlekseev, music has always been a passion. He played the flute as a child and later learned the guitar and drums to be part of a band. Now, as the Managing Director of Spotify Russia & CIS, some of Spotify`s newest markets, he has the opportunity to spread that love for music to listeners in his market and around the world. `Music and the self-expression it embodies help reflect my inner spirit,` says Ilia. `This makes the company`s business very close to me as an individual.` Ilia takes his role-to create ways to connect artists and listeners and help Spotify become the leading audio platform in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Moldova-seriously. To do that, he plans to adapt Spotify...