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Alexey graduated from the Department of Optoelectronics founded and headed by Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Zhores Alferov at the St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI", Russia in 1996 and received his PhD from Ioffe Institute in 1999. Alexey served to Optogan as a Board Member since its founding and in 2009 he joined operations as EVP of Business Development. Till 2009 Alexey held a CTO position at Innolume, USA- Germany and developed this company from the start in 2003 into a world-leading Quantum Dot laser manufacturer. Alexey has an extensive multicultural management experience working in high-tech organizations over the globe, including Russia, Taiwan, Germany and the USA. Being a recognized expert in Quantum Dot technology Alexey has more than 400 scientific publications, numerous invited talks at international conferences and 10 issued and pending patents(international groups).According to SCOPUS 2008, the Russian Scientist (younger than 36) with the highest citation index in the field of Solid State Physics.

Education: 1992, Moscow Medical Academy with distinction, c 2006 - Doctor of Medicine. Work Experience: 1991 – 2006, ROSNO Insurance Company since 2003 CEO and Chairman of the Board; 2006 – 2008, Mobile TeleSystems President and Chairman of the Board, member of the Board of Directors; 2008 – 2011, JSFC Sistema President and Chairman of the Management Board; 2011 – 2012, JSFC Sistema, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors; 2010 – 2012, “RussNeft” Oil Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors; 2012 – 2013, VTB OJSC, member of the Supervisory Board. Leonid is a member of the Government Expert Council of the Russian Federation.

Born March 21, 1957 in Leningrad. 1979 – graduated from Leningrad State University (Department of Mathematics and Mechanics) specializing in Applied Mathematics. 1979–1988 – Research Assistant, Junior Scientific Researcher, Scientific Researcher of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 1986 – successfully defended his Candidate of Sciences thesis in Physics and Mathematics, USSR Academy of Sciences. 1984–1995 – Lecturer, Associate Professor of the Department of Computational Mathematics at Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Physics and Mechanics. 1988–1992 – Senior Scientist of the Leningrad Institute for Informatics and Automation of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 1991–1995 – Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of AstroSoft Company, St. Petersburg. 1995–1996 – Consultant of Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft Middle East (Dubai). 1996–1997 – Senior Consultant / Head of Practice, Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft Eastern Europe. 1997–1999 – Head of Accounts Department, Microsoft Representative Office in Russia, Microsoft Eastern Europe. 1999–2003 – University Relations Manager, Microsoft Research Lab (UK). 2003–2005 – Head of Government Relations, Microsoft Representative Office in Russia, Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe. 2005–2007 – Chief Strategy Officer, Cabinet of the Chairman of Microsoft in Russia and CIS Countries, Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe. 2007–2009 – General Director of Software Development Centre of EMC Corporation in St. Petersburg. Since April 2009, he has held the position of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of RVC OJSC.

Date of birth – 8 October, 1932. Educational qualifications: Prof. Abel Aganbegyan graduated from the Moscow State Economic Institute (1955). He earned his PhD in Economics in 1957 and DSc in Economics in 1963. In 1964 he was elected as a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and in 1974 – a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is Doctor of Economics, professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Professional Experience and other relevant employment: 1955-1961 – The State Committee for Labour and Wages, General Economic Department, Deputy Head. 1961-1985 – The Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Head of Laboratory, Director (since 1967), Member of the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1966). 1985-1989 – Committee for the Study of Productive Forces and Natural Resources (CNPF) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Chairman. 1986-1990 – Department of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Member of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Academician-Secretary. 1990-2002 – The Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Rector. 2002- Present – The Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department. Honorary President of the International Economic Association, Honorary Member of the World Econometric Society, Member of several foreign academies, Honorary Doctor of a number of universities. Subject specialisms/ Research interests: Economics, scientific and educational activities. Research interest in econometrics, macroeconomics, in the application of mathematical methods in economic research. Prof. Abel Aganbegyan is the author of several books and numerous articles.

Dr. Vladimir Vasilyev (born on April 1, 1951) has been the Rector of ITMO University since 1996 when the Conference of University Employees elected Dr. Vladimir Vasilyev as ITMO University Rector for the five-year term. He's been reelected four times, in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016. He is an active corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education. He’s been the head of the Council of St. Petersburg Rectors since 2004, vice president of the All-Russian Council of Rectors, and a member of the St. Petersburg Governor's Technical Council. After graduating from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, in 1983, Dr. Vasilyev joined the Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, which later became ITMO University. In 1991 he became the head of the new department of Information Technologies. His leadership style and vision for innovation, multidisciplinary approach and the importance of partnerships with the industry earned him a prominent position within the university and the scientific community in Russia and beyond. In his capacity as the Rector, he continues to promote those values through creating a unique environment for cutting edge research, international collaboration and education for the modern world. Dr. Vasilyev is a prominent scientist in the fields of computer telecommunications and mathematical modeling of information systems and multifunctional equipment complexes. He is one of the creators of Russia’s joint scientific educational information environment and the “Electronic Russia” program. Dr. Vasilyev is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 2003 and 2005 President of the Russian Federation Award for Excellence in Education and the 2000 and 2008 Government of the Russian Federation Award for Excellence in Education. He is the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2002), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (2010), and the recipient of Golden Medal of the Russian Academy of Education “For Scientific Achievements” (2011).

Ilya Golubovich is the founding partner of I2BF Global Ventures and has over 6 years of cleantech and nanotechnology investment experience. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Nesscap Energy, one of the leading Korea-based power storage corporations, Epuramat S.A., a water treatment technology company based in Luxembourg and Primus Power, the leading developer of flow battery technology based in California. Mr. Golubovich is also a senior investment advisor to the board of directors of Arbat Capital Management, a USD 500 million Moscow-based asset management group. He formerly worked in the Energy Department of the London office of Louis Dreyfus in commodity trading and as a project manager at the Siberian Internet Company (Sibintek) at both their Novosibirsk and Moscow offices. Mr. Golubovich has an industrial engineering degree from Stanford University.

Chairman and Managing Partner, KPMG in Russia and the CIS, Member of the KPMG Global Board and the Board of KPMG in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Oleg joined KPMG in Moscow in 1997. Since 1 October 2012, Oleg acts as Chairman and Managing Partner of KPMG in Russia and the CIS. Prior to this appointment, Oleg was CIS Head of Audit. Under Oleg KPMG's Audit practice became the biggest in the Russian market. Oleg is as a member of KPMG's Global Board and Global Council, as well as of the Board of KPMG in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Oleg has extensive experience with companies in various sectors of the economy. He has actively assisted in a number of IPOs by large Russian groups on international and Russian stock exchanges, in major mergers and acquisitions, as well as complex restructuring cases. Oleg is a member of the Board of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), of the U.S.-Russia Business Council Board and as well as a Supervisory Board Member of The National Coordination Council for Development of Economic Relations with the Asia-Pacific Region.

Key specialisation – venture and business angel investment. Has successful background of working in Moscow city administration bodies. In business since 1992, and was founder of a number of commercial and non-profit-making organisations. As a private investor, invested in more than 15 innovative projects. In 2007 became chairman of the board of the National Association of Business Angels (NABA), a non-profit-making partnership. Since 2011 he has been Head of the Department of Strategic Development and Innovations at Rostec State Corporation. He graduated with distinction from the Tsiolkovsky Moscow Institute of Aviation Technology and the Academy of Social Sciences, studied at Columbia University (USA) and has a Candidate of Economic Sciences degree. He is the author of six books and more than 100 publications about innovation, lectures and holds practical classes in a number of higher education establishments, and is a professor at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. As a coach he has held more than 80 training seminars as part of the “Practice of developing small innovative businesses” joint programme run by RVC and the Russian regions.

Professor Vladimir L. Kvint is a Dr. of Economics, Member of the Bretton Woods Committee (Washington, DC), Fellow (life-time) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, of the World Academy of Art and Science, Professor of International Business Strategy at LaSalle University, Head of the Financial Strategy Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University' Moscow School of Economics and Head of the Center for Strategic Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of Department at North-Western Institute of Management. He had been Professor of Management Systems and Business Strategy of New York, Fordham and American Universities in the US. Dr. Kvint is the award-winning author of "The Global Emerging Market: Strategic Management and Economics", published in 2009 by Routledge in New York and London. This book was published in Russian in 2012. His new 2015 upcoming book "Strategy for the Global Market" is publishing by Routledge in New York and London. Dr. Kvint is an internationally recognized expert in fields of economic and financial national, regional and corporate strategies, with experience as a strategist, supervisor, and strategic adviser for the governments and corporations of the Russian Federation, the United States, Brazil, Taiwan, China, Albania, and Bulgaria, among others. He had been an adviser to several Presidents of the UN General Assembly.

Born February 24, 1953 into a navy family in Baku. 1976 – graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aerospace Instrumentation (as a mechanical engineer specializing in aerospace medicine instruments). 1976 – engineer at the defence enterprise NPO Leninets. 1978 – instructor at the Nevsky regional committee of the Young Communist League. 1979–1994 – service with the KGB (head of the Vyborg City Department of the KGB for the Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg). 1994–1999 – head of the St. Petersburg Administration of the Federal Service of the Tax Police, Lieutenant General of the Tax Police. 1999–2000 – Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Leningrad Region. 2000–2011 -– Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District. On August 31, 2011, Mr. Poltavchenko was appointed Government of St. Petersburg. Awards: Order ‘For service to the homeland’ IV degree (2003), Order ‘For service to the homeland’ III degree (2008), Order of Alexander Nevsky (2013), and other state awards.

Born on July 17, 1949, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). 1971 – graduated from Zhdanov Leningrad State University; Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. 1971-1991 – junior researcher, laboratory head, deputy director for research, leading researcher at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Leningrad. 1991-1993 – Vice President of Advanced Technology Centre, St Petersburg. 1994-2001 – Director of Regional Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development, St Petersburg. From 2000 – Chairman of the Academic Council of the Centre for Strategic Research North-West Foundation. 2001-2002 – Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. From June 2002 – First Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. From December 2003 – Acting Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. March 9, 2004 – appointed Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Since May 21, 2012 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. State award – Honorary Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation.