Programme

David Schlesinger is the founder and Managing Director of Tripod Advisors (http://www.tripodadvisors.com), a consultancy that advises on political risk analysis, strategy and on running complex, dispersed global organizations with an emphasis on China and the media sector. He was formerly Chairman of Thomson Reuters China, responsible for government relations and businesses in financial markets, legal and regulatory databases, scientific information and journalism. He was appointed to that role after being the global Editor-in-Chief of Reuters News, running all aspects of the 3,000-journalist strong international news service. A graduate of Oberlin College and Harvard University, Schlesinger joined Reuters Hong Kong bureau in 1987 as a correspondent. From 1989 to 1995, he ran editorial operations in Taiwan, China and the Greater China region. He then transferred to New York to serve in turn as Financial Editor, Managing Editor for the Americas and Executive Vice President and Editor of the Americas before taking on global roles based in London starting from 2004.

Luis Martinez Amago is President of EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa) at Alcatel-Lucent since January 1st, 2012. Before taking this role, Luis was President Sales for the EMEA region since September 2011. Luis joined Alcatel back in 1988 in Barcelona as R&D Director Intelligent Networks. From 1993 till 2004, he held various positions, including Director Product Line Management Network Management, Vice-President and General manager of the Wireline Access Business Unit, Senior Vice-President and Country Senior Officer Alcatel Spain, Senior Vice-President and COO Integration and Service Business Division. The following 4 years, Luis was President of several Alcatel’s and Alcatel-Lucent’s global business divisions: Wireless Transmission, Applications – which covered IPTV, Mobile TV, Music, Content, Messaging and Payment solutions, and Fixed Access. In 2009, he became President of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), North and Eastern Europe region, until September 2011. Luis holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and Business and a postgraduate degree in business management from IESE Business School.

Jon Fredrik Baksaas is the Chairman of the GSMA. He was President and CEO of Telenor Group from June 2002 to August 2015. During that period, the total number of subscriptions in Telenor Group’s mobile operations increased from 21 million to approximately 189 million. Telenor Group has mobile operations in 13 markets and in additionally 14 markets through the ownership in VimpelCom Ltd. Prior to becoming the President and CEO, Baksaas served as Telenor’s Deputy CEO, CFO and Executive Vice President with the overall responsibility for Telenor’s networks and communication services in Norway, one of the world’s most advanced countries in ICT usage. Before joining Telenor in 1989, he served as CFO in Aker AS, CFO in Stolt-Nielsen Seaway and held finance related positions in Det Norske Veritas (DNV) in Norway and Japan. Baksaas is currently a board member of the GSMA Association, Svenska Handelsbanken AB, and the Advisory Council of Det Norske Veritas (DNV). Mr. Baksaas holds a Master of Science degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and has additional qualifications from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is married with three children.

Born in 1972 in China, Mr. Wan holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. Mr. Wan joined Huawei in 1996 and has served as Director for the UMTS RAN System, President of the UMTS Product Line, President of the Wireless Product Line, and President of Huawei Device. Currently he is responsible for Huawei business in the Russian Federation.

Michael Kleinemeier is President of the region Middle and Eastern Europe (MEE). In this role he is responsible for creating and executing on all go-to-market efforts for SAP’s broad product portfolio including Services. He is reporting into Robert Enslin, Member of the Global Managing Board of SAP AG and President of Global Customer Operations. Throughout his professional career at SAP, Michael Kleinemeier has held a variety of executive roles. In 2012, he was President of Global End-to-End Services. In this role, he was responsible for driving market adoption of SAP’s new solutions in all five market categories, and ensuring that customers realize value in an accelerated timeframe. In addition to that, he was President of the region DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) from 2010 to 2012. In 2007, Michael Kleinemeier assumed the leadership of industry product management, and became a corporate officer of SAP AG. From 2001 to 2007, he was Managing Director of SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG. During that time, he was also the Regional President of the former Sales Region EMEA Central, which included Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. From 1989 to 1999, he held several managing positions at SAP, in such areas as sales, field services, administration and education. Between 1999 and 2001, Michael Kleinemeier was a Board member of SVC AG/intelligence AG, an SAP partner company. Michael Kleinemeier holds a degree in business administration from the University of Paderborn, Germany.

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.

Christian Morales is an Intel vice president and general manager of Intel Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for Intel product sales and marketing in the EMEA region. Morales has held senior international management roles in sales, channel operations and general management. He brings extensive experience in marketing and building brand awareness for new product segments, as well as a strong background in expanding and driving Intel's business into new and emerging markets. Prior to this role, Morales was Intel's vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group and co-general manager of Asia Pacific responsible for implementing Intel's strategies in Asia. He was also responsible for championing Intel's worldwide emerging markets strategy. Before that, he was general manager of Latin America and was instrumental in helping to establish a new regional headquarters and expand the company's regional presence throughout the continent. He joined the company in 1980 in Paris as an Intel field sales engineer and in 1983 became director for Spain and Portugal, and then moved back to Paris in senior positions to manage Western Europe channels and OEMs. He has been based in Paris, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Hong Kong. Morales graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the Electricity, Mechanics and Electronics Engineering School in Paris. In 1990, he completed the Young Managers Program in the MBA program at INSEAD.

1994: Graduated from Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University – MADI with an Engineer’s Degree in Automobile Maintenance and Repairs. 2003: Obtained an MBA Degree at Kingston University, UK. 2009: Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, a course in a joint MBA program of Kingston University and The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. In 2010 founded a business incubator at the InCube of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. 2010: Winner of the Russian stage of Ernst & Young’s "Entrepreneur of the Year» international contest under the heading "Industrial Production". February 2011: Appointed by Mayor’s executive order Head of Moscow Department of Support for Small and Medium-Sized Business. June 2011: Appointed by Mayor’s executive order Head of Moscow Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship Department. In 2013 received an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University (UK) for his outstanding contribution to the development of entrepreneurship. September 17, 2013: Appointed Moscow Government Minister and Head of Moscow Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship Department. August 29, 2014: Appointed as Adviser to Moscow Mayor. March 2015: Alexey headed Zimin chair for entrepreneurial leadership at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. March 24, 2015: In the result of direct competitive selection organized by Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade together with Agency for Strategic Initiatives Alexey was elected as Director of Industrial Development Fund.

Alla Morrison has been a Program Officer in the World Bank Group Open Finances program since 2012. The program provides financial and operational data about The World Bank Group and explores innovative ways to leverage data as a strategic asset for the Bank's business, social impact and operational effectiveness. Alla leads the private sector initiatives on open and big data for economic and social development, including the work on creation of an Open Data Fund that envisages investments in early stage data companies in emerging economies. Prior to the World Bank, she served as Managing Director of AsiaSource Consulting Ltd. in Hong Kong from 2006 to 2012 and worked extensively with manufacturers and investors in China and Southeast Asia. She also worked in financial advisory practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Alla has a Master's degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and a Master's in German Literature from St. Petersburg State University in Russia.

Sergey Fedorinov was born in 1975 in Leningrad. He graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics with a major in "Designing of automated equipment in Sales and Product management". In 1998, he became the IT director of the company "Euclid". From 2004 to 2008 He held the position of General Manager at the electronics distribution company "Kombrig". In 2008, He founded JSC Ulmart and opened the first cybermarket in St. Petersburg on July 1. Sergey Fedorinov became the winner of the award "Executive of the Year" in the nominations "Executive-Innovation" (2009) and "Executive-Breakthrough "(2012). Also in 2012, he headed the rating "25 best Managing Directors of the Russian IT companies". Sergey Fedorinov has founded a museum of high technologies history. In addition to the operational management of the company in charge of charitable projects, in particular supporting the festival "Colors of Childhood" and the federal program "Grandparents online." Initiated and launched the project for disabled people labor adaptation in Ulmart - "Our People".