Alumni Story - Justin Varilek '11

After Dartmouth, Justin Varilek worked at the English daily newspaper The Moscow Times, writing about business and tech. From there, he moved into PR, cofounding the communications department for Skoltech, a new graduate university based in Moscow and founded in collaboration with MIT. He then moved to Boston and led PR in the U.S. for a Russian-connected IT company, Acronis.
Currently, he is founding his own company Hack Pack--Airbnb for the news industry. The company is focusing on building journalist communities in Russia, Ukraine and the U.S before spreading to other countries.