Programme

Businesses and the government agree that preserving the principles of a market economy and entrepreneurial initiative could serve as guarantees for Russia to make it out of the acute phase of the current crisis. Today, it can be argued that the Russian economy is competitive thanks to the flexibility and energy of Russian businesses, which amidst serious external pressure have managed to rebuild investment and trade chains, establish logistics routes, find new areas for cooperation and collaboration with their foreign partners, join import substitution programmes, and independently create demand. But just who are these modern entrepreneurs that are shaping the Russian market each and every day? How can we maintain and support their positive energy? How can we ensure that a ‘sovereign economy’ does not become a limitation for private business, but offers it new opportunities? Finally, why does private business have a future in Russia and what is it?

Moderator
Yakov Sergienko, General Director, Yakov & Partners

Yakov Sergienko

General Director, Yakov & Partners

Panellists
Tatyana Bakalchuk, General Director, Wildberries
Yury Maksimov, Co-founder, Positive Technologies; Co-founder, Cyberus
Alexey Mordashov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal
Sergey Khotimskiy, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Sovcombank
Dmitriy Chuyko, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Whoosh

Tatyana Bakalchuk

General Director, Wildberries

Yury Maksimov

Co-founder, Positive Technologies; Co-founder, Cyberus

Alexey Mordashov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal

Born in 1965, Alexey Mordashov has been working for Severstal since 1988. He started his career as a senior economist, becoming Chief Financial Officer in 1992. In December 1996, he was appointed as Severstal’s Chief Executive Officer. Between 2002 and 2006 he served as CEO of Severstal Group and was Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors. Since the introduction of the new structure of corporate governance in December 2006 Mr. Mordashov has been CEO of Severstal. From December 2014 till June 2015 Alexey served as CEO of AO "Severstal Management" - managing organization of PAO Severstal. In May he was elected as Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors.
Vice-Chairman of World Steel Association. Head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ Committee on Integration, Trade and Customs Policy and WTO. Serves on the Entrepreneurial Council of the Government of Russian Federation. Co-chairman of the “Trade as a Global Driver” Taskforce of the “Business 20” of “Group of Twenty”. Co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council. Vice-President of Russian-German chamber of commerce, member of the Russian-German workgroup responsible for strategic economic and finance issues. Member of the EU-Russia Business Cooperation Council. Alexey earned his undergraduate degree from the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics. He also holds an MBA degree from Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University (UK).

Sergey Khotimskiy

First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Sovcombank

In 1999 he graduated the International University of Moscow (MUM) with a degree in law. Sergey Hotimsky started in the banking business in 2001 by co-acquiring Buicombank, one of the smallest banks in the town of Bui, Kostroma Oblast, later renamed Sovcombank. Currently, Sergei Hotimsky and his brother Dmitriy own more than 35% of the Bank’s shares, and he personally participates in the operational management of the credit organization, holding the office of the First Deputy Chairman of the Board.

Dmitriy Chuyko

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Whoosh

Front row participants
Ilya Dmitriev, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Monopoly Group of Companies
Oleg Mansurov, General Director, SR Space
Vladimir Shchekin, Founder, Co-owner, Rodina Group

Oleg Mansurov

General Director, SR Space

Vladimir Shchekin

Founder, Co-owner, Rodina Group