Alexander is a founder of several startups and program leader of SLP Moscow. Alexander has substantial experience in management of tech companies: He is associated with East-West Digital News - the first international media resource on Russian IT, developed in partnership with leading media and consultancies. koolinar.ru is a leading culinary social network in Russia. Odnoklassniki.ru is the second largest social network in Russia Patio furniture. It is Benches with advertising - largest unformal advertising chain in Moscow. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow.

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Alexander Pyatigorsky, e-commerce director for retail chain of the biggest russian telecom operator MTS.Today's passion is building the best omni-channel retail technologically and commercially. Previosly he was in charge of Yandex’es social projects and even before that developed couple of successful start-ups. He is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow.

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Alexey Melnichek acquired BSc Applied Physics and Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and was awarded on the basis of his academic achievements with the scholarship by the Special Presidential Fund for the support of young talented physicists. Note, that having his academic interests primarily in such areas as Social Entrepreneurship and Free to Pay Donation Tools, Alexey managed to apply his skills by founding the very first online advertising platform based on charity in Russia in 2011. Being from the very beginning one of the idelogical leaders of the project, Alexey remains the CEO of 1minute.ru and plays an active part in the development of the business. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow.

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Alexey is the co-founder of the Jelastic project. He has an extensive background in IT including experience as a programmer, an architect, and a project manager. He has participated in business processes automation in big companies, starting from the advisor position and ending as the project manage. Alexey has Technical and Economic degrees, PHD in technical sciences (Tomsk State University). He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow.

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Aleksey Zharkov is CEO and Founder of Familyspace, Russian largest family network and digital library of genealogical records. Prior to Familyspace, Aleksey worked with Delta Private Equity Partners where he was responsible for investments in Telecom and Internet. Aleksey’s experience includes 2 years with Citigroup Global Markets (Investment Banking) and 2 years of strategy consulting in BCG. Aleksey is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow.

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Anatoly Marin is a CEO and co-founder of Payment Systems and an expert in mobile internet space. Payment Systems is the Russia’s largest mobile payments provider in governmental and municipal charges. 1.5 mln users has chosen the company’s mobile apps to keep track of their charges and pay for them. Prior to Payment Systems, Anatoly has founded and lead as a CEO two other companies in mobile space. Starcard is a universal digital customer loyalty program that lets everyone get rewards at the businesses they love. It offers customizable, unique rewards to users while providing modern seamless marketing solution to merchants. Starcard raised over $1mln in venture funding, issued over 200 thousand loyalty cards and used by hundreds of small businesses in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other major cities of Russia. ShopPoints bridges the worlds of mobile internet and physical retail. In 2011 ShopPoints launched a mobile application that rewarded consumers for simply for walking into hundreds of stores in Moscow. To achieve this ShopPoints created a new presence recognition technology based on ultrasound. The technology allows the app to verify that is actually present inside a store (GPS is too inaccurate for that). ShopPoints solution has received a lot of interest from the top national and international retailers and fast moving consumer goods companies like Unilever, Procter&Gamble, Kraft Foods, MediaMarkt, X5 Retail Group, M.Video and many others. Prior to becoming the tech entrepreneur, Anatoly worked for Monitor Group, US management consulting company, founded by Michael Porter, the father of modern marketing. He advised to top management of global and national companies as well as national governments in Russia, Europe and Middle East.

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Andrey Belevtsev was one of the founders Roox solutions, which develops innovative systems and customer interaction management. Andrew has an experience of working over 10 years in IT and telecom industry. He has extensive knowledge in the field of professional services, launch control and support rapid growth of telecom operations worldwide. Andrew is 2014 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow.

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Andrey Demidov is an expert in project management with great skills in social media marketing, investment, PR, GR, HR and product management. He took a part in several projects from idea to sales. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow.

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Own business since 2001. Experience in developing and selling retail business. Experience in leadership positions - 5 years. Teaching experience - marketing. Consulting experience in the area of business processes improvement, deploy-ment of CRM systems and marketing. CEO of Kula news.

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Artem Kruglov is a Skolkovo resident and winner of many innovative competition in Russia. MedVio - is a biotech company developing new generation cancer treatments. MedVio activity is concentatated on development of a dendritic cell anticancer treatment immunotherapy and a targeted radionuclide therapy. iCapital Partners - is a venture firm provides services of devepoing hi-tech project with a leading tech and business experts. His general professional experience in the technology industry and venture capital investments exceeds 6 years. Education: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow. He currently works as Head of Advanced Retail Technologies at DIGINETICA.

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Artem Polyanskiy worked at the huge russian finance corporation where he was a head of marketing and business department at a branch of this corporation. Now Artem Polyanskiy is an expert in online marketing, PR, business development. He is an author of numerous publications on the themes of the platform capabilities of web conferencing in modern business processes. Artem is passionate about solving the problem of World education. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow. He is the co-owner of Zillion, a startup formed in 2013. Besides that, he is also the Head of Marketing for Russia and CIS at the Laboratory of Investment Technologies.

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Artem Zassoursky founded, developed and sold a number of mobile content providing companies. In 2006 he co-founded a fund, investing in Internet projects in CIS and SE Asia. Digital media and services for both b2b and b2c segments on emerging markets are his chief skills. In 2009 co-founded and managed a social/mobile games developer/publisher Arigama. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow. As of 2015, he is CEO at Stream LLC, which is market leader for digital entertainment and mobile advertisement for telcos in Russia and CIS.

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Denis is co-founder & CEO of TopAdvert, a company that helps any website or mobile app to make money on e-commerce while delivering quality content to end users. The company generates more than $1 M in revenue. Denis is responsible for sales strategy development, establishing traction with the market, fundraising from VC funds and government entities, strategy and product planning. Previously Denis was responsible for launching internet projects at the largest Russian book publisher Eksmo. Prior to that he was a consultant at Strategica, a leading russian strategy consulting firm. Denis received his education from both Russian and US universities and currently is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Moscow.

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