Speakers list

Kirill Varlamov is a head of Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF), created by the current President of , Vladimir Putin. IIDF was established by Agency of Strategic Initiatives in March 2013. IIDF main goals are financial and consulting support of internet projects at all stages of development, searching and selecting startups and growing them to a highly valuable business.

Kirill is also a CEO at Naumen, company cofounded with Аleksandr Davydov in 2001. Naumen is one of the leading companies in development in Russia.

Born in 1974 in a city of Sverdlovsk, Kirill graduated Ural State Technical University in 1996, attended classes at Bradley University, Peoria, IL. In 2012 Kirill graduated management school Skolkovo as Executive MBA. In November 2012 Kirill became a winner at national finals of Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur Of The Year” in IT section. That contest is being held for 27 years in 140 cities of 50 countries around the world.

Alexander Turkot, Founder, Partner, Chairman of Investment Committee Maxfield Capital

Alexander has over twenty five years of combined global experience in venture investments and management in IT and Telecom. Prior to Maxfield Capital Alexander was a head of Skolkovo IT Cluster, CEO of My Space (Russia) and Project Leader in various structures of IBM. Alexander is a recognized industry leader and a member of a number of industry groups and government agencies, including Russia’s Government Expert Council. Alexander is an advisor to the President of Skolkovo foundation and a member of Microsoft Seed Fund jury. Alexander holds a MSc in Computer & Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Economics.

Nicholas Davidov, Pult Group Managing Director

Despite the fact that he was born in a family of telecoms engineers in Moscow, Nicholas started his first business in selling sawdust to neighbor farmers at the age of four, but soon became confused by finger- counting his revenues and went for a financial degree at National University - Higher School of Economics. While squandering school by surfing internet, he became interested in IT and then became another pesky salesman of expensive hardware at Cisco and western systems integrators in Russia. Nick figured out that perfect products are easier to sell, so he started to help companies build products and soon ended up helping to build companies. To bring practice to theory Nick enrolled for a MSc in International Business in Emerging Markets in the University of Edinburgh where he actively engaged in student and scholar activities - whisky tasting society and local internet geeks union. To earn a living Nick was making some powerpoint slides for strategy and fundraising at nighttime, until respected investors driven by divine inspiration have chosen him to become investment professional with iTech Capital private equity fund for which he invested in a portfolio of growing internet companies. Nick is an expert in online and self-PR, he occupies board seats at iConText and Garpun and oversees strategy, business development and acquisitions at Pult Group as a managing director. In spare time he practices storytelling with his daughter and jumps on a trampoline.

Alexander Potapov , Deputy CEO, Managing Director of RVC

Alexander Potapov was appointed Deputy CEO, Managing Director of RVC in January 2012. He is in charge of the programs aiming at stimulation of the demand for innovations and innovative companies, development of innovation and venture ecosystem service infrastructure, as well as improvement of the professional level of the ecosystem participants and promotion of the innovative activities. Alexander Potapov graduated from the Medical Faculty of Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry in 1992. His professional experience includes working at media, advertising and marketing agencies, and more than 15 years for such companies as Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Systems at various positions from marketing specialist to representative office CEO.

Alexander Galitsky is a Managing Partner of Partners and Skolkovo Board Member, well- known innovator, entrepreneur and investor in Russia, in USA and Europe, President of the first Russian TechTour 2004. Prior to co-founding of Almaz Capital Partners in 2008 with and UFG Asset Management, Alexander formed the Information and Communications Technology investment practice at Russian Technologies, one of the first venture capital funds in Russia. Prior to his investment career, he founded and led as CEO five successful companies in the software, communications, semiconductor, internet and security sectors: Elvis, Elvis+, RCR Inc, Elvis Telecom, TrustWrosk Systems. Alexander has also been an individual investor and advisory/board member for a number of companies, including Parallels, S-Terra, NavMaps (sold to TeleAtlas in 2007), EzWIM (sold to TMT Ventures in 2010), Start-Telecom (control packet of shares was sold in 2007), WikiMart, Yam Labs, Magnifire (now F5, Nasdaq: FFIV), Acronis, and PGP Inc. Being a General Partner of Almaz Capital Partners, Sasha managed successful investments in such Almaz portfolio companies as Parallels, Acumatica, QIK, Vyatta, Jelastic, AlterGeo and others. In 1993, he negotiated the first overseas and direct investment (to Elvis+) ever made by and pioneered in WiFi and VPN development. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Alexander served as one of the top Technical Executives for the Soviet Space industry. He has over 30 patents for numerous inventions, including parallel processing, WiFi and VPN Security technologies. Alexander was honored as the most influential person in the Russian IT and Internet industry, and named "Technology Pioneer" at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2000. In 2012 he was nominated as the best investor in Europe of the last decade. He earned PhD in Computer Science from joint authority of Defense Research Institute and MIPT.

Moderator

Anna Znamenskaya, Chief Digital Officer at Mindshare, Russia

In "Mindshare", a Moscow branch of one of the leading global advertising agency, Anna is responsible for increasing the share of Internet advertising in media-mix of such clients as Ford, Volvo, Mazda, Land Rover, Nike, Lufthansa, Chanel. Before "Minshare" Anna has been a CEO of a technological start-up "Tinkoff Digital" with bank "Goldman Sacks" as a shareholder where she has developed first in Russia RTB-based mobile advertising platform "Madnet". Prior joining this venture Anna has launched her own start-up - geolocated mobile application and web-site Workingmama that allows busy parents quickly find out where to go with a child in the city. Her major project was ivi.ru that she started-up as a co-founder and CEO and leaded to one of the bigest Russian online video portal. Before joining ivi.ru Anna worked as a Commercial Director of Rambler Internet Holding. She has a Master degree in Digital Marketing from the leading European business school - IE Business School.