Dmitri
Lepikhov

Most founders arrive at telecom through obsession. Dmitri Lepikhov arrived through a spreadsheet. His background - auditing at Deloitte, corporate finance at Severstal, a CPA credential from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants earned in 2007-2008 - was not the usual runway for a SaaS CEO. But in September 2015, he took the helm at MightyCall, a then-quiet cloud call center and virtual phone system built for small and mid-sized businesses. The numbers have not been quiet since.

Under Lepikhov, MightyCall grew by more than 500 percent. By 2024, the company was pulling in $16.7 million in annual revenue and serving over 6,500 small businesses across industries as varied as real estate, healthcare, logistics, financial services, and education. In 2021, MightyCall landed at No. 1,436 on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies - and No. 103 on the California edition of the same ranking. In 2025, the company was named to Inc.'s 2026 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Pacific.

What Lepikhov brought to MightyCall was discipline - not the kind that kills momentum, but the kind that builds infrastructure. He oversaw the development of HIPAA-compliant cloud architecture, high-availability seamless redundancy, multi-level IVR, and CRM integration that puts MightyCall on a platform competitive with enterprise providers but priced for a small business owner in Boise or Tampa or Sacramento. The company's platform includes auto dialers, power dialers, progressive dialers, call queuing, call recording, real-time analytics, and DNC compliance tools.

In G2's Winter 2026 awards, MightyCall was named a Leader in Contact Center Solutions. The same platform had already earned top-1-percent global product recognition in G2's 2024 Best Software Awards, along with VoIP Leader status and Highest User Adoption in Call Center Infrastructure. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce designated MightyCall a Digital Innovator and included it in the CO-100 list of America's most innovative small businesses.

Lepikhov thinks globally, but he builds specifically. In December 2024, he announced MightyCall's engineering hub expansion to Tashkent's IT Park in Uzbekistan - a move that surprised some observers but was entirely in character. He had identified the region's combination of state-of-the-art infrastructure, talented young engineers, and favorable tax incentives for IT Park residents, and he moved. When asked about it in an interview with Daryo, he was characteristically direct: Uzbekistan, he said, "combines rapid technological growth with an ambitious, highly skilled workforce. At the center of this progress are its people - students and young professionals driving innovation and change."

That kind of statement - specific, warm, earned - captures something about how Lepikhov operates. He is not a conference-circuit CEO who talks about disruption. He is a careful operator who talks about people, infrastructure, and compounding returns. His philosophy, stated simply: "Believing in and championing the people around him." He is married with two children and based in San Francisco.

Lepikhov also writes. He is a contributor to Entrepreneur.com, where he published a widely-read piece on building digital stamina as a busy entrepreneur - practical, unflashy, and structured like someone who has thought seriously about the costs of always-on work culture. He contributes to Inc.com as well. The writing matches the company: no marketing fluff, direct advice, and a respect for the reader's time.

The original $3 million Series A that MightyCall raised in August 2012 predates Lepikhov's tenure. He inherited the company's foundation and proceeded to build a decade of compounding growth on top of it. The fact that MightyCall has not taken subsequent outside capital rounds speaks to operational discipline: Lepikhov runs it lean, profitable, and focused.

The product serves a specific customer with precision. A small law firm that needs a toll-free number, call routing, and compliance-grade call recording. A healthcare practice that needs HIPAA-compliant voicemail and live call monitoring. A real estate team that needs a power dialer and CRM integration. MightyCall handles all of it, and the platform's growing list of G2 awards suggests customers notice. The company has earned recognition in call center software, cloud phone systems, VoIP, and contact center infrastructure categories - a span that reflects how thoroughly Lepikhov has built out the feature set.

At MightyCall, 52 people now serve thousands of businesses. That ratio - roughly one team member for every 125 clients - is not an accident. It is the result of years of deliberate product investment, automation, and a CEO who spent his formative years thinking about how organizations use resources. The CPA instinct runs deep. The growth rate suggests it is working.