Mikhail Beburov is currently the CEO of the company where he had his first job, the State Institute of Scientific Genetic Research. He has made many stops along the way, forming a company with a group of colleagues called Bioprocess, which was taken private in the mid-1990s. He was also responsible for restructuring the business at Uralmash and Almaz Shipbuilding.
Beburov holds a degree in biology from Moscow State University.