Konstantin Dolgan
Kazakh businessman
Konstantin Dolgan is a Kazakh-American businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of LA New Product Development Team (LA NPDT), a product design and prototyping company. Dolgan additionally co-founded the company Grapheno, a producer of graphene-based conductive coating for electronics, as a side-venture of LA NPDT, co-founded QMS2Go, a provider of AI-powered quality management system tools, and is the co-author of Realizr, a product ideation guidebook. He was featured as one of Forbes The Next 1000 upcoming American entrepreneurs in 2021.
Early life and education
Konstantin Dolgan was born in Karaganda, Kazakhstan in 1987. Fascinated since childhood with technology and engineering, he also gained an entrepreneurial spirit from his parents, with whom he worked as a young man. He graduated from Karaganda State Technical University (KSTU) with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 2008, and followed it with a Master of Science degree in technological machines and equipment from the same university. In 2010, Dolgan met his future wife Onega Ulanova while studying at KSTU. After Dolgan was invited to continue his doctorate studies at KSTU's American affiliate Louisiana Tech University, he and Ulanova moved to the United States, and both were admitted to Louisiana Tech. Dolgan graduated from Louisiana Tech with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in materials and infrastructure systems engineering in 2014.
Career
Prior to graduating from Louisiana Tech, and while working on his dissertation, Dolgan started to consider ways he could combine his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit.
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