Business programme

The pandemic has accelerated the transformation of the retail sector, with digitalization becoming the main driver of competitiveness, even in businesses which are not online yet. Although 2020 saw record growth in online sales, several offline сhains only strengthened their position. Consumers are becoming more responsible and rational when it comes to what they consume, as well as more ‘home-based’, while regulators are playing a greater role on the market in the wake of the pandemic. What has the pandemic taught retailers and retail brands? How is the technological, competitive and regulatory ecosystem changing? And what new trends will determine how the industry develops after the pandemic?

Moderator
Max Seddon, Correspondent, Financial Times in Russia

Max Seddon

Correspondent, Financial Times in Russia

Panellists
Yuri Alasheev, Member of the Board of Directors, VkusVill
Maria Gordon, Senior Independent Director, Polyus; Senior Independent Director, ALROSA; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Independent Director, Detsky Mir; Independent Director, Moscow Exchange
Viktor Evtukhov, State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Anna Mikhina, Vice President, Head of Ecosystem Services Development Department, Tinkoff Bank
Igor Radakovic, General Director, Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare in Russia, Ukraine & CIS
Georgy Solovyov, General Director, Co-Founder, Skyeng
Igor Shekhterman, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, Member of the Management Board, Х5 Retail Group N.V.
Daniil Shuleyko, Head of E-сom and Ridetech, Yandex
Alexander Shulgin, Chief Executive Officer, Ozon

Yuri Alasheev

Member of the Board of Directors, VkusVill

Maria Gordon

Senior Independent Director, Polyus; Senior Independent Director, ALROSA; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Independent Director, Detsky Mir; Independent Director, Moscow Exchange

Masha Gordon is an experienced board executive, an avid
alpinist, and a mother-of-two. She started her career as a
journalist for the Washington Post in Moscow and later
studied in the United States; gaining a BA in political
science from the University of Wisconsin and MALD from
the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Masha spent the next 16 years of her career working in
finance. She spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs where she was
a Managing Director in the Investment Management
Division and most recently led the emerging markets
portfolio management team at PIMCO.
She moved to a portfolio career of non-executive board roles
in 2014 and currently serves as a Chairwoman of the board
of directors of Detsky Mir, Russia’s largest retail chain of
children’s goods, an independent director of Alrosa, world’s
largest diamond company, Moscow Stock Exchange, Tinkoff
Credit Services and Polyus Gold. Her portfolio of non-profit
roles includes being a member of the Board of Advisors for
the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a trustee of the
Girls Day School Trust, UK’s largest network of private girlsonly
schools.
In October 2015, Masha embarked on a journey to set a
women’s world record in Explorers Grand Slam, an
endurance challenge that features climbing highest peaks on
every continent, including Everest and skiing to the North
and South Poles. On June 11, 2016 she set a new Guinness
record at 7 months and 19 days. She has since climbed
Makalu and Lhotse, world’s 3 and 5th highest peaks. Masha
is a founder of GRIT&ROCK, a charity that administers a
largest pool of expedition grants focused exclusively on
women.

Viktor Evtukhov

State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Education:
1993 – Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute with a major in economic cybernetics.
2002 – Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Law.
2004 – Master’s degree from Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of International Relations.
2003 – Defended his post-graduate dissertation and granted the degree of candidate of economic sciences.
2008 – International Management Institute of St Petersburg (IMISP) under the Masters of Business Administration programme.
Professional experience:
1998 – Elected deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (second convocation) for the 33rd Electoral District (Moskovsky District) and was twice re-elected in 2002 and 2007.
2009 – Appointed member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation – Representative in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Government of St. Petersburg; representative of Saint Petersburg State University in the government and administrative bodies of the Russian Federation.
2011 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2012 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2014 – Appointed State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation under an order of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Anna Mikhina

Vice President, Head of Ecosystem Services Development Department, Tinkoff Bank

Anna is responsible for the strategic development of Tinkoff lifestyle services and the integration of partner services into the Group ecosystem. Before joining Tinkoff, she worked with mobile products at Yandex, Rambler and Mail.Ru Group. Since 2012, Anna has been involved in building mobile apps for Tinkoff, such as the Tinkoff superapp, Mobile Wallet, Traffic Fines, and Card 2 Card.
She holds a degree in Journalism from the Humanities Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting in Moscow.

Igor Radakovic

General Director, Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare in Russia, Ukraine & CIS

May 17, 1972 Born in Zagreb
1997: graduated from Zagreb University/ bachelor's degree in economy
2012: appointed to the position of Sales Director, Russia and CIS (RB Russia)
January 22, 2018 appointed to the position of Regional Director, Russia and CIS
Interested in arts/ music/ sport
In addition to native Croatian, Igor speaks three languages: Russian, English and German.

Georgy Solovyov

General Director, Co-Founder, Skyeng

Graduated from Moscow University of Physics and Technology, the winner of the national olympiad in technology. While studying at the university, worked an engineer at the Institute of Solid State Physics. After graduation George held the post of CEO at an online project Kassa365.ru.
In 2008, George had to learn English for an internship abroad. Since Moscow tutors were out of his budget, George asked a teacher from his hometown of Cheboksary to do classes via Skype. This idea turned out to be a great one, and from that time George’s vision for an online language school was born. In 2012, he recruited his 3 friends, Khariton Matveev, Andrey Yaunzem and Denis Smetnev, to help him realize that vision and create such a school.
In January 2014, the team was joined by Alexander Laryanovsky who had previously held the post of Director of International Development of Yandex In August, Skyeng launched its own platform Vimbox that allows to study English in a virtual classroom efficiently and conveniently. As for now, the solution has no parallel.

Igor Shekhterman

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, Member of the Management Board, Х5 Retail Group N.V.

Igor served on X5’s Supervisory Board since 2013. He has been Managing Partner and CEO in RosExpert, which he co-founded in 1996 and has subsequently successfully developed into the Russian alliance partner of Korn/Ferry International. Igor started his career as finance manager at the Russian branch of Beoluna, the Japanese jewellery producer. Igor holds a degree in economics from the Kaliningrad Technical Institute (1992), and degrees in business administration from the Institute d'Administration des Enterprises (France, 1994) and the Danish Management School (1995).

Daniil Shuleyko

Head of E-сom and Ridetech, Yandex

Born in 1988. In 2011 graduated MEPhI’s Automation and Electronics Department.
2010 – 2015 – cofounder, product and marketing director, Delivery Club. Joined Yandex in 2015 as marketing director for Yandex.Taxi, and later, in February, 2018 became managing director of Yandex.Taxi. He is responsible for service development strategy, growth, expansion and new business areas. Since May, 2019 – general director of Yandex.Taxi.

Alexander Shulgin

Chief Executive Officer, Ozon

Alexander Shulgin was born in May 2, 1977 in Yessentuki in the Stavropol region. Alexander has a degree in Management at the Rostov State University.
As a specialist in finance sphere with 13 years of experience in the field of consumer goods, Shulgin has held various financial positions at Coca-Cola Hellenic in 1997 and 2007. In 2007 he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Coca-Cola Hellenic representation in Russia.
Alexander Shulgin joined the company Yandex as CFO in May 2010. On 1st September 2014, Alexander Shulgin was appointed as General Director of "Yandex".
On December 7, 2017 - appointed to the post of General Director of the OZON GROUP.