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Tina (full name: Tinatin) Kandelaki was born on November, 10 1975 in Tbilisi (Georgia). Her father is an economist and her mother a physician. Tina graduated from the journalism department of Tbilisi State University and from the department of international relations of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Prior to 1995, she worked at Radio 105 radio station and for Georgian television. After 1995, she worked for the radio stations and television channels M-Radio, RDV, Serebryany Dozhd, 2x2, Biz-TV, Muz-TV, Vremechko on TVC, YV-6 in Moscow. 2002–2007: host of the Detali programme on the STS TV Channel. From 2003: host and producer of The Smartest programme. 2008–2011: host of the TV programme Unreal Politics on REN TV and later on NTV channels. In 2008, Ms. Kandelaki became a co-owner of Apostle Media (later –Centre for Strategic Communications Apostle), specialising in PR and production of television and video content. In 2010, she was author and host of the discussion programme Alternative on the Vesti FM radio station. In August 2011, she organised and conducted the first National Educational Forum Smart School. 2010–2012: member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. In 2013, together with Margarita Simonyan, she co-hosted the political talk show Iron Lady on the NTV channel. From 2014, she was co-investor and art director of the elite club village Shelestovo in New Moscow. In July 2015, Tina was appointed General Producer and Deputy General Director of the consolidated sports editorial board established on the basis of the new federal TV Channel Match TV.

Projects implemented for such brands as Kalashnikov, TASS, Technodynamika, SOCHI2014, INTER RAO UES, Metalloinvest, “Heritage of Tatarstan”, MSM Skolkovo, Primorye Krai, Shtokman, CORUM, Mikhailov & Partners, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and Channel Five. Head of the branding division at CSC Apostol since 2013. 2011-2013 – Managed branding projects as a leading strategy consultant at the Mikhailov & Partners Group. Mr Badalyan underwent basic training from 2004-2011 while working as a consultant at the Zurich and Moscow offices of the global agency Interbrand as well as the agency K&A, the Russian partner of the London-based agency Brand Union. Mr Badalyan graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis.

Sergey Kravchenko holds post of president of Boeing Russia/CIS since 2002, he is responsible for leading all Boeing business activities in Russia and the CIS. Kravchenko joined The Boeing Company in 1992. He directly participated in Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner program design, held leading positions in engineering departments in Seattle responsible for production and relations with suppliers and partners. In Russia, he led Boeing projects on participation in ISS, establishment of two Boeing joint ventures with Rostec /VSMPO, Boeing Design Center in Moscow, Boeing Flight Training Center in Skolkovo. Before Kravchenko joined Boeing in 1992, he worked as a professor and as the lead scientist of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also taught in Moscow and worked as a research consultant in Europe, the United States and Asia. Sergey Kravchenko is one of the leading specialists in Russia on modern management of large international projects and companies. Kravchenko is a professor and holds a doctorate degree of engineering science, earned in 1990. He holds over 20 patents in various areas of engineering and has published more than 50 research papers.

Born on 28 August 1975. Education: 1998 – Graduated with honours from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a degree in applied mathematics and physics. 2006 – Continued education and obtained an MBA at IMD, Switzerland, a leading global business school. Professional experience: 1999-2003 – Headed a division and then an enterprise of the ArtTechCentre Group of Companies. 2004-2006 – Worked at DrillTech Rus (Moscow), specialising in pipeline construction using the horizontal drilling method, served as Head of the Financial and Economic Department and then Deputy General Director and Project Manager. 2007-2010 – Held various positions in the Paris office of leading international consulting corporation The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). 2010-2011 – Director of the Moscow representative office of BCG. 2011-2012 – Head of the Izmash Group of Companies, where he implemented a project for the group’s financial recovery and transformation with the establishment of the unified enterprise SPA Izhmash. 2012-present – CEO of the Technodynamika Holding Company (Aviation Equipment until 2015).

Denis Manturov was born on February 23, 1969, in Murmansk. Education: 1994 – Lomonosov Moscow State University, major in Sociology. 1997 – Postgraduate studies at Moscow State University, PhD. 2002 – Doctoral programme at Moscow Aviation Institute. 2006 – Russian Academy of Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation, major in Law. Professional experience: 1998 – Appointed Deputy General Director of Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant. 2000 – Appointed Commercial Director of Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant. 2001 – Appointed Deputy Chairman of State Investment Corporation (Gosincor). 2003 – Appointed General Director of OAO OPK Oboronprom. 2007 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation. 2008 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. 2012 – Appointed acting Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. 2012 – Appointed Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Awards: 2007 – Awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland (Second Class)”. 2008 – Awarded the Order of Friendship. 2009 – Awarded the Order of Honour. 2010 – Awarded an Honorary Certificate of the Government of the Russian Federation. 2013 – Awarded the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland (Fourth Class)”. Additional information: Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation (First Class). Mr. Manturov was included in the “Golden 100” Personnel Management Reserve under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation. He speaks multiple foreign languages. He is married with a daughter and a son.

Vlad Martynov is, together with Dmitry Buterin, a co-founder of blockchain centric investment fund www.blockgeekslab.com. Vlad has twenty years of highly diversified experience in software and digital technology: As a co-founder, angel investor and CEO of several highly successful start-ups: among others Yota Devices, the developer of the world’s first dual-screen smartphone with an always-on display www.yotaphone.com, global leading SaaS service www.wildapricot.com, digital sport analytics company www.Iceberg.hockey. With the eventual sale of one of his start-ups to Microsoft, as a corporate executive at Microsoft HQ, he ran the implementation of global program to grow ecosystem of developers and software partners. After Microsoft, he became CEO of European PLC (NASDAQ OMX; COLUM). In 2014, Vlad was nominated by Ernst and Young for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Nikolay Nikiforov was assigned the role Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation on May 21, 2012. Earlier he took position of Executive Director in the Information Technology Centre of Tatarstan Republic, and later Deputy Prime Minister of Communications in Tatarstan Republic. He has successfully completed a large-scale project on development and integration of electronic government in the Republic of Tatarstan.