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Mark is responsible for the firm’s strategic relationship with the World Economic Forum (WEF); he is a regular participant and session leader at Davos and the WEF regional summits; a member of WEF’s Global Advisory Council on Europe and a member of WEF’s Advisory Board on Sustainability and Competitiveness. Mark is also a member of AmCham’s (American Chamber of Commerce) Executive Council based in Brussels, having been Chairman from 2007-2010; and Non-Executive Director of the UK Future Cities Catapult and Sport England. At Accenture Mark has two decades of experience working at board level in senior management and business strategy positions. Mark’s client work has centred on large-scale transformational change programmes across multiple business units and geographies. He is currently working with a number of multinationals and non-profit organisations on growth and restructuring their global operations. He is actively involved in Accenture's research programmes – current topics include globalisation, digital innovation, smart cities and entrepreneurship. Mark is interviewed frequently, as a leading global expert on issues ranging from energy, emerging markets, innovation and sustainability. He has appeared on a range of high profile media outlets such as the BBC’s News programmes and is regularly quoted in a wide variety of tier one print media such as the Financial Times and The Economist. He is responsible for Accenture’s point of view on globalisation – Multi Polar World – which is now in its ninth year. The latest version entitled “The Growth Game Changer: How the Industrial Internet of Things can drive progress and prosperity” was launched at Davos in January 2015.

Background: Kjell-Morten Johnsen comes from the position as CEO of Telenor Serbia, a position he held for three years. Johnsen serves as a member of the Board of Directors of VimpelCom Ltd as of June 2011 and at OJSC VimpelCom (Russia) as of June 2007. While working in Serbia, Kjell Johnsen served as the President of the Foreign Investors Council of Serbia from December 2009 to December 2011. Prior to moving to Serbia, Kjell-Morten Johnsen has held a number of senior positions in Telenor, including Senior Vice President of Telenor Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Head of Telenor Russia. Until February 2008 he was Member of the Board of Directors of Golden Telecom. Education: MBA in Strategic Management from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in cooperation with HEC, France

Education: In 1989 Vladimir graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, specialty "Automated systems and robotics". In 1989 - training at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, Department of "Business and management". In 1995 graduated from Moscow school of Economics, specialty «Bank accounting». 2000 - graduated from Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, specialty "Finance and credit". 2011 – training at Harvard Business School on the subject of "Leadership". Professional activities: August 2014 - General Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors JSC "NSPK". 2000 – 2014 - General Director of CJSC United card Company. 1995 – 2000 - Vice President, Deputy General Director of CJSC United card Company. 1991 – 1995 - General Director of the company "Profit -FORMS". 1989 – 1991 - Head of foreign economic Department of "Prominform".

David leads the Channel Ecosystem across Europe including all Partners in the IBM One Channel Partner program. Including Value Added Distributors, Value Resellers, Cloud Service Providers, Industry Solution Vendors and Global System Integrators across the full IBM portfolio of Hardware, Software and Services. Prior to this role David was General Manager for IBM's business in Central and Eastern Europe - part of IBM's European Unit - where he was responsible for 29 countries including Russia/CIS, Poland and Baltics, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and the remaining Adriatic region. Central to this role was to lead all sales across the IBM portfolio, integrating the teams and bringing value to IBM's clients and Business Partners across this region. Previously David was the Vice President of sales for IBM’s channel organization in the Growth Markets region, including Greater China, India/South Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. David led the end to end operations of IBM’s channel business, from strategy to execution. He was responsible for IBM’s business controls, deal making, helped shape IBM’s image in the market through press and analysts and led a team of IBM employees and IBM’s Business Partners.

Vasil Latsanich was born in 1972. Became top manager of MTS Ukraine since March, 2011. In October 2005 became MTS Marketing Director. In 2001 – 2005 was head of marketing of MTS Ukraine. Between 1996 and 2001 was employed by Coca-Cola Ukraine and Coca-Cola Bottlers Siberia in a variety of marketing and general management positions. Graduated Lvov’s Lisenko University in 1995. Since 2010 Vasil Latsanich is a co-chariman of Tele-committee of American Commerce Chamber in Ukraine.

Born 1974, in Tashkent. 1996 - Graduate from the Tashkent Electrotechnical Institute of Communications. 2001 - Graduate from the Moscow State University of Economy, Statistics and Informatics, majoring in Finance and Credit. MBA degree from the University of Warwick. From 1995 work in various structures of ABN AMRO in Uzbekistan, Netherlands and Russia, supervising over programs of bank transformation in IT, corporate, retail and investment business. 2001 to 2006 work in Alfa Bank as IT Deputy Director, Senior Vice-President, Director on development and support of products and operations of Retail Block. 2006 to 2008 a partner of IBM Russia/CIS consultancy for financial and insurance companies. From January 2008 to now: Sberbank's Senior Vice-President, Member of the Board, CIO. From January 2014 to now: Sberbank's Senior Vice-President, Digital Bank. Member of the Supervisory Boards of JSC Subsidiary bank of “Sberbank of Russia", Ukraine and OAO "Belpromstroyank", Belarus, Chairman of the Board of Directors in OAO "Universal Electronic Card" and ZAO "Sberbank-Technologies" companies, Member of the Board of Directors of "Sberbank AST" company. From July 2015 till now Managing Partner of Sberbank Venture Fund.

Kamran Siddiqi is the Group Executive Director for Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) for Visa Inc. Based in Dubai, UAE, Mr. Siddiqi is responsible for developing the electronic payments industry across more than 90 markets, as well as cultivating relationships with Visa’s clients, including financial institutions and government authorities. Previous Positions: Before joining Visa in 2003, Mr. Siddiqi worked with ANZ Banking Group as the Managing Director for its Emerging Business, based in Melbourne, Australia. At ANZ, he led the Domestic Cards and International Consumer Finance businesses and was responsible for the bank’s broader retail agenda in Asia. Prior to this, Mr. Siddiqi worked for Citibank for many years in markets across Asia Pacific, including Singapore, Thailand and Pakistan, where he held various corporate, retail and cards positions. Other Information: Mr. Siddiqi holds an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines.

Oleg Firer, born September 18, 1977, is a business leader and entrepreneur. He is a founder of Unified Payments, a provider of payment processing services in the United States, and currently serves as a Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors of Net Element , a company specializing in electronic commerce, mobile payments and transactional services. In addition, Mr. Firer serves as a Managing Member, member of the investment committee and a chairman of the board of directors of Star Capital, an international private investment and advisory firm focused on high-growth opportunities and emerging markets.

In 1989, Mr. Yang, a 4th year student of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, partnered with Alexander Moskalev of the Institute for Microelectronics Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to create his first company, ABBYY. ABBYY is currently over 1250 employees strong and is the leading developer of Optical Character Recognition, Linguistic and Artificial Intelligence technologies. With 14 offices worldwide (Russia, USA, Germany, UK, Japan, Ukraine, Taiwan, Australia), it sells products in more than 130 countries. In addition to ABBYY, the entrepreneurial Mr. Yang is active in a variety of other projects, including: Cybiko, a wireless communication computer for teenagers, (Russia, USA, Taiwan, 1998-2003); Participation in ATAPY Software (www.atapy.com, 2001); Founded iiko, software solutions and for the restaurant and hospitality industry (www.iiko.ru, 2005); Involved in a number of creative art-based ventures (FAQ-Café studio, gallery restaurant ArteFAQ, art club “Squat-Сafe”, club “Grimm Sisters”, bar DeFAQto); Active in a number of charity organizations and educational projects: Educational fund Ayb (www.ayb.am, 2005), participation in the operation of MIPT Supervisory committee, etc. Mr. Yang is an author of numerous patents and scientific publications.