Programme

The coming year promises to be an eventful one, with IPOs being undertaken by major American and Chinese start-ups. More than 20 unicorns are planning to take this step in the near future, including Airbnb, WeWork, DiDi, and Uber. Lyft, Pinterest, Zoom have already launched their IPOs. However, expectations and often be misguided: as some companies grow in value, share prices in others fall. What factors are behind fluctuating share prices, and how is the situation likely to unfold in the future? How justified are market evaluations of companies? In which segments can we expect to see most activity from investors?

Moderator
Lev Khasis, First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Lev Khasis

First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Panellists
Inaki Berenger, Chief Executive Officer, CoverWallet
Boris Dobrodeev, General Director, Mail.Ru Group
Elena Ivashentseva, Senior Partner, Baring Vostok Capital Partners
Alexey Katkov, Managing Partner, JSFC Sistema
Nick Kostov, Managing partner, Ribbit Capital
Tomoyuki Nii, Chief Executive Officer, SBI Holding
Chieh Huang, Chief Executive Officer, Boxed.com

Boris Dobrodeev

General Director, Mail.Ru Group

Elena Ivashentseva

Senior Partner, Baring Vostok Capital Partners

Elena Ivashentseva is a Senior Partner at Baring Vostok Capital Partners. Since 1999, she has led investments by the Baring Vostok funds in the mass media, telecommunications and information technology sectors, including Yandex, Ozon.ru, Avito, 1C, CFT, ER Telecom, Ivi.ru, Gett, BlaBlaCar, Carprice, 2GIS, CTC Media and others. Elena graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master’s Degree in Finance and Accounting. She also has a diploma with honors in Economics from Novosibirsk State University.

Alexey Katkov

Managing Partner, JSFC Sistema

Alexey Katkov graduated from the Academy of Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in management. Since 2015 he has been CEO and President of Sistema Venture Capital.
In 2015 Alexey Katkov was first vice-president and COO of JSC SMM (then part of Sistema Group). From 2000 to 2015 he worked at LLC Mail.ru, where he served as vice-president, commercial director and director for international and regional development.

Front row participants
Alexey Basov, Deputy General Director – Investment Director, RVC
Gleb Davidyuk, Managing Partner, iTech Capital
Anurag Chandra, Partner, Fort Ross Ventures
Roman Shpakov, Chief Executive Officer, JCS Finance Group QBF

Gleb Davidyuk

Managing Partner, iTech Capital

Gleb Davidyuk is one of the pioneers in investing in the technology industry in Russia, he is a Managing Partner at iTech Capital group of funds and a Board Member in more than ten tech companies. He has almost twenty-five years of private equity experience in both Western and Russian private equity funds. Prior to founding iTech Capital in 2010, Gleb spent five years as a Partner with Mint Capital, midsized Scandinavian private equity fund actively investing in the Russian market. Before that Gleb worked for more than five years as a Managing Director at Alfa Capital Partners, where he was also one of the co-founders. Gleb Davidyuk has gained valuable regional investment experience from four years work with Central Russia Regional Venture Fund — an EBRD-sponsored private equity fund managed by Quadriga Capital Russia.
Education:
Ph.D. in Finance - Yaroslavl State University, (2000)
Executive MBA - Chicago Booth School of Business, (2010)

Roman Shpakov

Chief Executive Officer, JCS Finance Group QBF