Igor Stanislа́vovich Ashmа́nov (born 9 January 1962) — Russian entrepreneur specializing in information technology, artificial intelligence, software development, project management.

He directed development of the linguistic module ORFO of the Russian edition of Microsoft Office, a family of Multilex electronic dictionaries, Spamtest spam filter etc.

Strategic management course in Higher School of International Business at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

[8] Igor Ashmanov started his career in IT when he joined the artificial intelligence department of Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre as an intern researcher.

He also directed the development of the Context electronic dictionary, the Logos interlinear translation program, the Calligraph hyphenation system, the Sphinx full-text search engine, and the Jordan matrix calculator.

During the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, most of ORFO developers, including the team leader, left Russia for the USA.

During his management time at the company, new search core Rambler 2.0 was developed and deployed, and over two dozens of new services of the web portal were launched.

During his 1.5 years at Rambler, Ashmanov witnessed ownership rotation three times, while none of the new owners expressed any interest in developing the search engine.

According to annual web studios' rating by Factus, based on publicly available tax reports, gross volume of Ashmanov & Partners in 2015 was over ₽300 mln, VAT not included.

Igor Ashmanov is active participant in multiple government working groups: a Presidential Executive Office based working group on digital economy (Internet + society and Internet + sovereignty subgroups, led by Igor Schyogolev), a State Duma-based Digital Economy Council (led by Vyacheslav Volodin), and the Ministry of Communications-based working group on digital economy (Information security subgroup).