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Mark Kurtser is the founder of the Mother and Child Group of Companies, Chairman of the Group’s Board of Directors, a correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a doctor of medicine and a professor. He began his career at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Pirogov Second Moscow State Medical Institute, where he worked his way up from assistant to associate professor of the department. From 1994 to 2012, Kurtser was head of the Family Planning and Reproduction Centre of the Moscow Healthcare Department, the largest obstetrics and gynaecology institution in Moscow. In 2011, he defended his doctoral dissertation. From 2003 to 2013, he was the chief obstetrician and gynaecologist within the Moscow Healthcare Department. The Mother and Child Welfare programme was prepared with his involvement as part of the Municipal Targeted Programme for Healthcare Development for 2006–2007 and guidelines were developed for health and demographic indicators. The level of maternal and perinatal mortality declined in the city. Kurtser is the author of 45 scientific works, more than eleven textbooks and practical guidelines in obstetrics and gynaecology. PhD dissertations are held under his guidance. Kurtser is actively involved in holding conventions and symposiums and also lectures for practicing physicians and residents. He introduces innovative medical technologies to the work of obstetrics and gynaecology in-patient clinics. Kurtser remains actively involved in the activities of the Mother and Child Group both as an executive and as regular medical practitioner.

Nicole Bricq was elected to the Ile-de-France Regional Council in 1986, and later becamechair of the Council's Cultural Committee. From 1988 to 1990, she served as technical adviser to the office of the Minister of Defence. In 1992, she was an adviser on the staff of the Minister for the Environment, where she was responsible for relations with Parliament and local officials. She was elected to Parliament in 1997, representing a constituency in the département of Seine-et-Marne, and became a member of the Finance Committee. In September 2004, she was elected to the Senate, representing the same département. She joined the Finance Committee and was elected vice-president in October 2008, and then became General Rapporteur in October 2011. In the first Ayrault government (May–June 2012), Nicole Bricq served as Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. In June 2012, she was appointed Minister for Foreign Trade. Nicole Bricq holds a master's degree in private law, and is an expert in public finance and taxation issues. She is 65 years old.

He joined the Philips Telecommunications division in the Netherlands in 1985. After 4 years he left Philips to join a small logistics company that served FMCG firms as the General Manager, but then re-joined Philips in 1992 as the Marketing Manager for PBX products. Then he was appointed as Marketing Manager, and as General Manager of the sales organization for Business Communications in Germany. In 1998, he became Head of Operations within the business unit Business Communication in the Netherlands. In 1999 he was also appointed as the Director of R&D for the business unit. In 2001, he was appointed to a new role in Consumer Electronics as Head of the Audio Video business unit within Europe from Amsterdam. At the start of 2004, Arjan was appointed as the Managing Director of the Northern Europe (UK, Nordics, Baltics) sales-organization for Consumer Electronics based outside London. In 2006, Arjan became the Global BU Manager for Video & Multimedia Applications based in Singapore. In June 2008, he returned to the Netherlands to join the Business Unit TV as the COO and category leader to strengthen the management team and helping to drive the turnaround of the TV business within Philips.

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.

Simon Matskeplishvili, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, is a Professor of Cardiology and a Chief Scientific and Clinical Researcher at the Bakoulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow and an adjunct professor of life sciences at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He also serves as a member of the Education, Certification and Accreditation, European Communities Committees of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. He graduated with honors from the Moscow Medical Academy in 1994 and had his postgraduate training and fellowship in cardiology at the Clinico-Diagnostic Department of the Bakoulev Center. In 1997-1998 he received a degree of the International Master in Cardiology from the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the National Research Council of Italy in Pisa. Simon Matskeplishvili is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He has received numerous honours and awards, both in Russia and internationally, including the European Cardiology award in 2001. He is a founder and a Chairman of the echocardiography section of the Russian society of cardiology. In 2007 he became a full professor of cardiology. For the development of new non-invasive method of intracardiac blood flow evaluation in 2012 he was awarded a State Prize of the Government of Russian Federation in science and technology. In 2013 he was a captain of the Russian team to win an ESC Cardiology Quiz “Primus inter pares” at the European Congress of Cardiology in Amsterdam. In 2012 Professor Simon Matskeplishvili had organized and implemented the Educational Program for cardiologists and internal medicine physicians in Moscow. He also conducts an English-language elective course “Amazing Cardiology” in cardiology, cardiac surgery and cardiovascular imaging at the Faculty of Medicine of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The Board of the European Society of Cardiology has appointed Simon Matskeplishvili as the Coordinator of the Congress Programme Committee of the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2015-2016.

Robert Puskaric joined Ericsson in 1996 and during his 17-year career with the company he has held a number of senior sales and management positions. In 2009, he was appointed head of Ericsson in Northern Europe and Central Asia, a region comprising 22 countries including Russia, Ukraine and the CIS countries and over 750 employees. From August 1, 2006 to February 2009, Robert Puskaric was Vice President and General Manager, Ericsson AB, Head of Ericsson Mobile Platforms and Deputy CEO and Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing of ST-Ericsson. His previous posts included Business Manager for the Nordic region, Vice President and Key Account Manager for Telia Mobile Nordic, Vice President & Key Account Manager for Telcel in Mexico and President of Ericsson Denmark and KAM for TDC. Robert Puskaric was born in Helsingborg, Sweden, in 1969. In 1996, he graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration degree from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. He is considered to be a global expert on mobile platforms and their impact on the development of life, business and society.

1990-1994 Central District Executive Committee Barnaul, Barnaul Municipal Administration-work in the different chief positions. 1994–2002 Altai region Administration's Committee on Finances, Tax and Credit Policy, Deputy Chairman, Chairman. 2002-2008 Russian Ministry of Finance, Acting Director of Interbudgetary Relations Department, Deputy Director of Interbudgetary Relations Department, Director of Interbudgetary Relations Department. 2008 - 2012 Chairman of the Federal Сompulsory Health Insurance Fund (FCHIF). 2012 till present - Vice-Minister of health of the Russian Federation. Awarded Order of honor, Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", second class, the Commemorative Medal "200 Years of the Russian Ministry of Finance", Certificate of Honour from the Russian Government for Merit in the Development and Improvement of the Сompulsory Нealth Insurance System. Counsellor of the Russian Federation, first class. Honoured Economist of the Russian Federation.