In 1991 Yuriy Atanasov along with his father and older brother founded the company UVIS (Name was changed to Centravis in 2007) From 1992-2009 he held several top level management positions including Chief Economist and Commercial Director.

Since 2009 Yuriy Atanasov has been the CEO of CENTRAVIS.

In 1986, he graduated from Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (Ukraine), gaining the Master of Economics Diploma. In 2009, he graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business, LSE and HSE Paris (TRIUM program) with an Executive MBA Diploma.