Anna Filatova: Technical Writer and Editor in Chief.
She is a co-founder of Xbit labs and is responsible for running the editorial operations as well as for making the male members of the team work :) She currently resides in Round Rock, Texas but spends a lot of time traveling around the world. Anna graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University, Applied Linguistics department. She majored in computer linguistics and did a lot of speech recognition stuff. She fluently speaks English, German and French, and looks forward to learning some Chinese one day. As for her absolute favorite things to do besides computers, well, she loves skiing and snowboarding, got into marathon running and kickboxing, and enjoys cooking very much.
She is happily married and blessed with two beautiful children: a handsome boy named Nikita and a little princess named Elizabeth :)

Ilya Gavrichenkov: Hardware Editor – Platforms.
A co-founder of X-bit labs site. Ilya is the No. 1 person in our test laboratory. Being responsible for the coordination of the entire test lab activity, he is also a true expert in the CPU and Mainboard field. He is a degreed engineer, graduated with honours from the Moscow State Aviation Institute (University of Aerospace Technology), Applied Mathematics department. He has always been very serious and at the same time very enthusiastic. With his almost 30 years, Ilya is fond of sleeping until 5p.m.: night is the right time for him, as he says. And even though he is a 100% Russian he simply hates winter time: you can never get him to go for a walk in winter. I think he would really love to live in the Caribbean, for instance :)

Anton Shilov: News Editor, Entertainment Hardware Testing Lab Manager.
I am proud to say that he is one of the most experienced news-editors and market analysts among the technology Internet media. Following all the world’s events and being not afraid to carry out some in-depth investigations on his own, Anton is always right in time with his findings and analysis. He is also in charge of our entertainment hardware lab in Tallinn, Estonia, and is always full of new ideas and testing approaches that result into unique indepth materials you can find in X-bit's Video section. Anton lives in Tallinn and studies at the Audentes university, Information and Technology department. As for hobbies, he is so much into IT, media, electronic music and art that even his hobbies are all here: he rarely leaves his home without his camera, smartphone and a book or news-paper.

Alexey Stepin: Hardware Editor - Entertainment Hardware.
Alexey - one of the first and the greatest hardware geeks in Estonia - has been known as a die-hard hardware specialist since 1992, who managed to tweak nearly every single piece of hardware available in his hands just in order to get some more speed out of microprocessors or graphics chips. After spending some years with successful retailers in the Baltic States, now he is with X-bit labs to provide you hardware reviews worth attention of both: ordinary end-users as well as PC enthusiasts!

Yaroslav Lyssenko: News Editor, Hardware Editor - Entertainment Hardware.
Being a news and hardware editor, Yaroslav is responsible for hardware testing and digging out exciting stuff from around the Web. Having spent nearly four years with X-bit labs’ entertainment hardware testlab, he is now among the world’s most experienced media hardware testers. Besides working with X-bit labs, Yaroslav studies finances and economy, and plays percussion and drums in the jazz department of Georg Ots Tallinn Music College. He is also fond of martial arts and street racing. What an explosive combination of hobbies! :)

Nikita Nikolaichev: Hardware Editor - Storage Products and Peripherals.
He deserves being called the best storage specialist in Russia. Very experienced, which you can see yourself if you take a look at any review in our Storage section. He is a degreed engineer. He graduated from Moscow State Aviation Institute (University of Aerospace Technology), Robotics and Intelligent Systems department. They were developing specific parts for military defense systems. But then Nikita aka niknik decided to get a more peaceful job and sat down to computer hardware testing. This is how we got him :) Besides hardware, Nikita is a dedicated traveler. He is a big fan of boating down the rivers of Siberia and northern Russia. Risky but very thrilling hobby :)