SPEAKERS’

BIOGRAPHIES

Pavel ADYLIN

CEO and co-Founder, Artezio

Pavel Adylin is CEO and co-founder of Artezio - an ISO 9001:2008

certified software development and consulting company. A specialist with

over 25 years of IT experience, succeeded in building a superior team of

500+ professionals. Having started his IT career as a software developer in

1988, Mr. Adylin launched his first start-up in 1993. He has over 20 years

of senior management experience in Sales and Marketing. Mr. Adylin

graduated from the Moscow Academy of Finance in 1997 and Moscow

Institute of Radio-engineering, Electronics and Automation in 1991 with a

Master of Science degree in Electronics. In 2011 Pavel Adylin joined Skolkovo Innovation

Center expert team and was elected as Chairmen of the Board of Directors of Russoft,

the nation wide association of the most technically competent software developing companies

from Russia and Belarus.

Anatoly AKSAKOV

Member of the Russian Parliament

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets

President of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia

Member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and

Entrepreneurs

Presidium member of the party "Just Russia"

Biography:

A.G. Aksakov was born on November 28, 1957 in the village Ermolaevo of Kumertausky

district in Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1969 he moved to the Crimea

with parents and two sisters due to the illness of mother. In 1975 he graduated from high

school of the village Vilino Bakhchisaraysky district of the Crimean region.

In 1975-1977 he worked as a fitter, later as a machine operator at the chemical plant.

In 1983 graduated from the economics department of Lomonosov Moscow State University,

qualified as economist. В In 1986 graduated from full-time post-graduate school of

Lomonosov Moscow State University, economics department. Ph.D. in Economics,

professor.

In 2005 graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the

Russian Federation with qualification “specialist in the filed of international relations”.

Since 1986 he worked as a lecturer at Chuvash State University, docent of Economics

Theory and Market Economy Chair. In 1991-1993 he headed the Center of Foreign Economic

Relations and Business Development of the Chuvash Republic.

In 1995-1997 he was a director of Cheboksary branches, Moscow commercial bank

In 1994-1997 he was a Deputy Director of Institute of Economics, Finance and Law

(Cheboksary).

1994-1995 - Deputy of the State Council of Chuvash Republic.

During this period, Anatoly Aksakov took an active part in the development of the Program

on Chuvashia transition to market relations, aimed at gradual entrance of Republic in the

market. According to experts estimates it allowed in general to retain the economic potential

of Chuvashia and to keep a significant number of jobs during the implementation of radical

economic and social reforms of the 1990s.

In 1997 Anatoly Aksakov became a Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet — Minister of

Economic Affairs of Chuvash Republic

The Anti-recessionary program (Program of top-priority measures 1998) in Chuvash

Republic was developed under the leadership of Anatoly Aksakov. Implementation of The

Anti-recessionary program allowed to increase industrial output volume, redeem debts on

social payments and salary.

In 1999 Anatoly Aksakov supervised the Medium-term program of social-economic

development of Chuvash Republic, which specified social economic issues and ways of their

solution, including development of science-intensive technology; informatization of all social

economic processes; all levels of education and science; modern management and equipment

of healthcare system, as well as technical, technological and institutional transformation of

agriculture, social development of villages.

The program enabled Republic without having deposits of strategic raw materials to become

one of the most dynamic regions.

1999-2003 - Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation of

the Cheboksary single member electoral district, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on

Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship.

2003-2007 - Deputy of the Russian Federation State Duma of fourth convocation,

representing single mandate electoral district, Deputy Chairman of Credit Organizations and

Financial Markets Committee.

2007 – present time - Member of the State Duma of the fifth and then of the sixth

convocation, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Financial Market.

2002 - 2009 he was a member of the National Banking Council of the Central Bank of the

Russian Federation.

In 2006, Anatoly Aksakov was elected president of the Association of Regional Banks of

Russia (Association "Russia").

Personal website: www.aksakov.ru

Arnaud BENOIT

Vice-President, Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Arnaud Benoit, French citizen, has an experience of 20 years in the real

estate in Russia. He started in January 1993 in a firm called “Russian Real

Estate” in the office department. At this time Russia was a world very

different of what we can see in our days. After 2 years as commercial

director, Arnaud created with an American partner, “Colliers Russia”. The

first office was established in Moscow, followed by Saint Petersburg, and

then Kiev (Ukraine) and Almaty (Kazakhstan). Arnaud acted as a director

of “Corporate Clients” before taking also the position of “Regional

Director”. In 2003, Arnaud left the company to found “ Inov’Office”

specialized in Tenant Representation in the retail and office sector. The

concept of the firm was to represent the Tenants solely. For the first time full transparency in

all the transactions was offered on the Moscow market. In 2012, Arnaud decided for

Inov’Office to join the AOS Studley network. The name of the company was changed to

become “AOS Studley Inov’Office”. If the name was modified, the motto was still the same

than at the very beginning of the adventure: Experience Efficiency Ethic. Arnaud is also vice-

president of the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce. He is married with 2 children.

Dmitry CHIKHACHEV

Co-founder and managing partner, Runa Capital

Co-founder and managing partner, Runa Capital Dmitry

Chikhachev is co-founder and managing partner at Runa Capital,

$135M venture fund. His interests span internet, mobile,

virtualization and could computing. He led deal execution for

Jelastic, LinguaLeo, Ecwid, Cellrox and other Runa companies.

Dmitry is a ‘hands on’ active investor and helps portfolio

companies with fundraising, strategy, recruitment and technology.

Dmitry has over 18 years track record as business executive with

broad cross-functional experience. Most recently Dmitry was

COO/acting CEO of Uvenco Holding, responsible for the stat-up and successful roll-out of

the company, which under his leadership has become the leading operator in the field of

automated trade in Russian market. Previously Dmitry served as Business Development

Director at Ritzio Group, one of the top gaming operators in Eastern Europe, where he

headed international business development and managed investment projects – including

M&A and greenfield - in Latvia, Romania, Germany, South/Latin America, growing Ritzio

international business from zero to $75M.

Dmitry holds MS degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of

Physics and Technology. He also has completed an MBA curriculum, graduation with highest

honors from the American Institute of Business and Economics.

Edouard-François de LENCQUESAING

Special Advisor, Paris EUROPLACE, Managing Director, European Institute of

Financial Regulation (EIFR) & Member of the B20 2013 Finance Task Force

Edouard-François de Lencquesaing after being a consultant with

ACCENTURE has been for 23 years a banker with CCF-HSBC. He is

now a consultant in his own firm specialized on European issues related

to the financial industry (Netmanagers), special advisor of Paris

Europlace and CEO of European institute of Financial Regulation

(EIFR).

At CCF, member of the managing committee, after being chief

administrative officer of the investment bank, he was in charge of the transactions banking

(securities & payment services) and IT business lines and was a special advisor to the

chairman until the merger with HSBC. He was also Chairman of a subsidiary Vernet Valor,

in charge of Funds services & valuation

and Director of UBP a retail bank of CCF group.

He had many positions in European financial market infrastructures in the payments (RTGS)

and the securities (CSD) area. He was also a board member at SWIFT and other European

market infrastructures. Those positions gave him the opportunity to arbitrage the specific

interest of his institution with the overall interest of the industry within a long term and

pragmatically vision.

Since 2004, he became the special advisor of Paris EUROPLACE helping the French

financial industry to contribute positively to the European « construction » and to define the

strategy of the Paris financial centre within Europe and in the global competition.

In Paris he contributed to the creation, in 2007 of the financial cluster “FINANCE

INNOVATION” and in 2008, of the European Institute for Financial Regulation (EIFR),of

which he is the CEO.

He is an independent board member of EURO-CCP in London, a subsidiary of the DTCC in

New York.

He is writing regularly articles about strategical issues on Europe and the evolution of the

financial industry in the global competition.

He has been elected in his village council for 24 years (adjoint au Maire) until 2009.

He is Délégué Départemental de l’Ordre de Malte France for the Pas de Calais since 2005.

He is married with a former American banker and has 3 children. He is Commander in the

French Navy (reserve).

Benoît DELESTRE

CEO, SCCP France, President Europe & CIS, SCCP Group

Benoit Delestre is the CEO of SCCP France and President Europe & CIS

of SCCP Group. A veteran of the enterprise technology sector, Benoit

brings with him more than a decade of experience in IT business solutions

across diverse industries such as insurance, healthcare and payment.

Previously, Benoit supervised the Sales and Technical team and navigated Integri through the

EMEA markets before Clear2Pay acquired the company in 2008. At Mobile Tag, Benoit was

head of sales and marketing strategy development.

In 2010, he co-founded 4G SECURE. Thanks to the support of partners as IBM, Capgemini,

Oberthur Technologies, Sopra Group and customers like ProwebCE, 4G SECURE became a

reference trademark for financial institutions. It is in 2012 that 4G Secure joined SCCP

Group.

Benoit graduated with a Master degree in Business Administration and Management from the

European Business School in Paris

Frédéric DOUMENC

Partner, TAIGA

Frédéric is an engineer in telecom and has a masters degree from the

London School of Economics. He spent 10 years in the consulting business

within KPMG Consulting and AT Kearney, working on improving

operationnal performance of blue chip companies by implementing new

organisation and IT systems. In 2002, he founded his first company

Resulteam, a operationnal consulting firm specialized in improving working

capital with a success fees business model. In 2007 the company was sold to

lowendalmasai where he continues to grow the business across Europe. In

2009 he started a new company Taïga to develop an innovative web

platform to monitor the working capital and the cash flow of small and big companies.

Katia GAIKA

Deputy Director for Education and Research, IT Cluster, Skolkovo Foundation

Katia Gaika is a Deputy Director of the IT Cluster of Skolkovo

Foundation (Russia’s Silicon Valley project) where she is

responsible for connecting the dots between Russian and

International investment and development institutions as well as

for all special activities of the IT cluster when it comes to media

projects and public relations. Prior to Skolkovo she spent a year

starting a new TV channel (“Russian Life”) for Sistema Mass

Media – one of the biggest media holdings in Russia.

Ms. Gaika first made a career as a photo-journalist and worked for Vogue, Paris Match,

Harper’s Bazaar, GEO, Marie Clair and Elle among many others. At the top of her journalist

career Katia decided to switch gears and went to look for the new challenges. She got

accepted and went to Columbia University in the City of New York to study Economics.

After graduating from Columbia with honors, she led a number of projects in media, financial

and government sector for Booz Allen Hamilton (now Booz&Co, a top management

consulting firm) in New York, Dubai, Cairo and Moscow.

Alexei GORIAEV

Masters in Finance Program Director, Senior lecturer, New Economic School

In 1997 Alexei Goriaev graduated in Mathematical Economics

from Moscow State University (diploma with honors). Then he

studied at Tilburg University, earning M.A. in finance in 1998

(cum laude), diploma of the Dutch Graduate School in Economics

(NAKE) in 2001, and Ph.D. in finance in 2002.

In September 2002, Alexei Goriaev started as assistant professor

of finance at the New Economic School. In 2007 he led the new

Masters in Finance program, and in 2010 he became senior

lecturer. During the last 11 years Dr. Goriaev did research and

taught courses on emerging markets, mutual funds, and risk

management. He led applied projects on financial literacy, pension

and mutual fund ratings, the International Financial Center in

Russia, mass affluent customers in Russia.

Adina GRIGORIU

Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Active Asset Allocation

Adina has an actuarial degree, is a member of the French Institute of

Actuaries and has 14 years experience in different finance fields,

including quantitative modelling.

An asset allocation specialist, she started her career as a derivatives

trader. She then joined BNP Paribas Asset Management where she

held several positions ranging from product manager to fund manager

and head of ALM. She joined a spinoff of the EDHEC-Risk Institute

in 2007 to develop the Dynamic Core Satellite approach and its

application to institutional portfolios.

During her career, Adina has advised numerous asset managers and institutional clients on

designing and managing multi-asset portfolios, including hedge funds.

Sandrine GUERIN

Deputy CEO, Compagnie de Financement Foncier – CFF

Sandrine Guérin is an actuary, a member of the IAF (Institute of French

Actuaries) and holds a mathematics degree from Paris Jussieu University

as well as a graduate degree from ESSEC. With more than twenty years

experience in the financial markets, Ms. Guerin is currently Executive

Vice-President, Member of the Board of Management and Member of the

General management Committee of Credit Foncier, a company specialized

in real estate financing that is part of BPCE, second largest French banking

group. As Head of the Capital Markets, she is in charge of funding,

derivatives, cash management, securitisation. Sandrine Guérin is also Deputy Chief

Executive Officer of the Compagnie de Financement Foncier, a subsidiary of Crédit Foncier

de France, one of France’s leading issuers of obligations foncières (French covered bonds).

Adrien HENNI Chief Editor and co-founder, East-West Digital News

Adrien Henni is Chief Editor and co-founder of East-West Digital News.

After 10 years of experience in the Internet and mobile businesses in

France, he became Senior investment manager at Direct Group, a

Western investment company operating in Russia, where he took part in

leading Russian Internet projects. Mr Henni lives in Moscow where he

advises a variety of startups, funds and other organizations. Follow

Adrien on Twitter @adrien7105

East-West Digital News is the first international information company dedicated to Russian

digital industries, providing news, business analysis and industry reports pertaining to the

Internet, e-commerce, online media and video, mobile and telecom markets a well as

software and hardware innovation. A consulting branch, East-West Digital Consulting,

provides market players with assistance for their business development in Russia.

Fabien IMBAULT

Managing Director, Evolution Energie

Fabien Imbault is the Managing Director of Evolution Energie. He

brings an extensive experience in software development and financial

markets, including senior roles at Misys Plc. He is also a senior

lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Supélec and at the University of

Paris Sorbonne.

He received a Master of Science from Supélec (France) and Heriot-

Watt University (UK).

Catherine JOFFROY

Partner, Dentons

Catherine Joffroy is a partner in Dentons’ Paris office, bilingual in

French and Russian as well as fluent in English. Since 1990 she has

specialized in advising French companies investing in the CIS,

notably in Russia and Ukraine, but also more widely in Central and

Eastern Europe. She also advises these companies, as well as large

Russian companies with respect to French commercial and civil law.

She has in-depth knowledge in investments, creation of joint

ventures, project finance and international contracts.

Catherine Joffroy was reappointed as French Foreign Trade Advisor

(Conseiller du commerce extérieur de la France - CCE) by the

decree of 30 November 2011, signed by the Prime Minister of

France, and currently holds this position. Advisors are appointed for

three years based on their expertise to assist companies and people in their international

projects. Catherine Joffroy graduated from Pushkin Institute in Moscow and the University of

Paris II. She was admitted to the Paris bar in 1990.

Rotislav KOKOREV

Deputy Director of Corporate Governance Department, Ministry of Economic Development

of the Russian Federation

Graduated from the Moscow State University (faculty of economics) in

1988. Ph.D. in Economics (1993).

Professional interests: financial markets, corporate governance, private

pensions.

Deputy Director of Corporate Governance Department of Ministry of

Economic Development of the Russian Federation (from 2007). Spheres

of responsibility: corporate legislation, securities market and collective

investments legislation, pension reform.

Jean-François LECURU

Project Director, Mobile Business Intelligence, SmartCity

(Mathematics Electronic Central School of Paris, Graduate of Qualiflight

Aeronautical School of Dallas FAA)

Project Manager AIR FRANCE - National AirLine (1993)

CEO LTC Engineering - Software development (1998)

Project Director - Marseille Area

Engineer by Innovation Department

- Public Mobiles Services cluster

- SmartCity – masterplan

Coworking National NFC Program : French Ministry of Industry & 15 Cities of France

Alexey MARTYNISHIN

Regional Manager for Russia & CIS, Murex

Alexey Martynishin is a regional manager for Russia & CIS for Murex,

heading Moscow office of the company.

The office is established to support clients of the company as well as to

sale and implement Murex software program which provides automation

of capital markets activity for commercial and investment banks, asset

managers, corporate treasuries and clearers.

Before joining Murex in 2011 Alexey spent 14 years at Renaissance

Capital investment bank, growing from equity/bonds/repo settlement officer to Head of front-

office IT

Alexey is graduated from Cybernetics faculty of Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute

Andrey MOROZOV

CEO, VEB Innovations Fund

Andrey earned his PHD in Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics

and Technology. After his post-graduate studies, he was a research fellow

at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He later switched his career to business, got a MBA in finances at the

Wharton School, Pennsylvania University (Pennsylvania, USA) and held

senior positions at major international corporations and consulting

companies, such as IBM, AT Kearney, Gartner, Fuji-Keizai, Cisco

Systems and VTB.

Since late 2011, Andrey seves as the CEO of the VEB Innovations Fund specializing in early

stage technology financing. As of October 2013, VEB Innovations had nine innovative

technology companies in its portfolio.

Alain RAES

Chief Executive, EMEA and Asia Pacific, SWIFT

Alain Raes was appointed Head of the EMEA region of SWIFT in

September 2007 and added the role of Chief Executive Asia Pacific in

January 2013. He is based in Singapore. Alain was previously Director

of the Continental Europe region at SWIFT, covering securities and

banking sales activities and spending time in Paris as well as Brussels.

Alain joined SWIFT in 1990, following previous roles at Citibank in

Belgium and Fortis Bank in Singapore. During his extensive career in

marketing and sales in the financial services industry Alain has

achieved great success in developing international business across

Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and he has particular

expertise in the area of financial market infrastructures.

Alain is married and has three children. He is a Belgian.

About SWIFT:

SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products

and services to connect more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 212

countries. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardised financial information

securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating

operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work

collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.

François REGNIER

Country Head Russia, BNP Paribas, Chairman of the Management Board, BNP Paribas

ZAO

BNP Paribas Country Head Russia, Chairman of the Management

Board, BNP PARIBAS ZAO François Régnier was appointed as BNP

Paribas Country Head for Russia in April 2012. He also serves as the

Chairman of the Management Board and a member of the Supervisory

Council of BNP PARIBAS ZAO, a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP

Paribas that offers corporate and investment banking services on the

Russian market. Mr. Régnier oversees all Group’s entities in Russia

(Corporate & Investment Banking, Personal Finance – Joint Venture

and Investment Solutions) with a special focus on CIB.

François has been working for BNP Paribas for more than 25 years.

Prior to joining BNP Paribas in Russia, he held similar positions as

the Country Head for Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia, he also worked as the Head of

Acquisition Finance for UK & Northern Europe. In his last position as the Head of Human

Resources at BNP Paribas in UK he oversaw this function at one of the Group’s largest

offices globally. In 2000 Mr. Régnier was actively involved in the historic merging of BNP

and Paribas.

Currently lives in Moscow.

Education:

Mr. Régnier graduated from Lyon School of Management and also holds a Masters degree

from the French leading engineering school - Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts et Métiers

(now Arts et Métiers ParisTech).

Career:

1988-1990 - BNP Luxembourg, Credit Analyst

1990-1996 - BNP Paris, Various positions at Inspection Générale

1997-1999 - BNP Paris, Global Relationship Manager at Large Corporations Group

1999-2000 - BNP Paribas London, Head of Corporate Banking and Integration Coordinator

2000-2005 - BNP Paribas London, Structured Finance, Head of Acquisition Finance & Loan

Structuring

2006-2009 - BNP Paribas Budapest, Head of Territory for Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia

2009-2012 - BNP Paribas London, Head of Human Resources

Alain RENCK

Head, Bpifrance Export

Alain Renck is currently Head of Bpifrance Export which is part of

Bpifrance, the French public investment bank dedicated to help

companies grow and innovate.

Previously to the creation of Bpifrance, he was appointed Director of

International Affairs Department of OSEO in May 2009.

For the years before that assignment, Alain was responsible for all

activities of OSEO in Eastern France.

A graduate of Nancy’s IAE Business School and of Strasbourg University’s Law School,

Alain started his career as a representative in 1974 for the Crédit Hôtelier Commercial et

Industriel, a development bank, in Strasbourg, then managed the Nancy office. This bank was

merged successively into the CEPME (Crédit d’équipement des PME, SME Equipment

Bank), the BDPME (SME Development Bank) then OSEO: Alain followed this evolution,

managing the bank’s training center, then becoming its district manager in Dijon then Nancy,

its regional manager in Strasbourg, to eventually manage the eastern network of OSEO.

Jean-Noël RIVASSEAU

Chairman & Founder, Kameleoon

After studying Computer Science at the Ecole Polytechnique

(Paris, France) and UBC (Vancouver, Canada ), Jean-Noël

founded Kameleoon in 2009, attracted by entrepreneurship.

Kameleoon initial technology allowed to easily modify existing

web pages. In 2010 during a visit to North America, he

discovered data-driven methods to optimize conversion, such as A

/ B testing . He fell in love with these methodologies, and

understood that the main obstacle to their use was the need of

agility for marketing teams, which was exactly solved by the tools

developed in-house. Kameleoon became an agile conversion optimization solution, and is

now used both in large French companies such as Renault , Air France , Le Monde or Au

Feminin and leading Web pure players ( Price Minister , Promovacances , RueduCommerce ,

Pages Jaunes ... ) . Jean-Noel oversees the technical development of Kameleoon and the new

projects of the company, to ensure the best results of the company's mission : help clients use

their data to become conversion champions.

Dominique SAINT-REMY

Business Developer, SmartCo

Dominique Saint-Remy studied Management at HEC and International

Business at HEPL in Liege, Belgium before taking a Master’s degree in

Management at SKEMA Business School in Paris, France. Dominique

has a 3 years experience in the Financial & IT areas and is Business

Developer at SmartCo since September 2010, responsible for Belgian,

Polish, Nordics and Russian markets.

Anton SALOV

Cloud and IT services Director, MegaLabs

Experienced manager and innovator in IT industry. Acted successfully

both as an entrepreneur, building several start-ups, and as a

corporation manager, responsible for growing corporate businesses.

2001 co-founded Russian carpooling and travel community

Poputchik.ru. 2008-2011 developed Google partnership - Enterprise

Search, Google Apps and GEO Businesses for the leading software

provider Softline. 2009 founded cloud business for Softline - first

Russian multivendor SaaS provider and marketplace Softcloud. 2010

organized first Russian Professional Cloud Conference - CloudConf.

2011 founded venture UC/telco start-up Tekmi and set up Microsoft Windows Azure

distribution in Russia for Softline. Since 2012 Anton s RCCPA (Russian Cloud Computing

Professional Association)/Eurocloud Russia board member. In 2012 has left Softline and

joined MegaLabs as Cloud and IT services Director.

Natalia SIDORENKO

Head of International Desk, SME Department, Rosbank

In 1995 Natalia Sidorenko graduated from Khabarovsk State

Pedagogical University, in 1998 – French-Russian Master of

International Management. 1999-2006 worked in Trade Mission of

French Embassy in Moscow as specialist in promotion of French

products to Russian market .

In 2006 joined BSGV team. In 2011 after merging between BSGV and

Rosbank worked as had a position of chief specialist in International

Desk of SME Department of Rosbank.

In 2012 Natalia Sidorenko headed International Desk of SME

Department of Rosbank. Natalia is a member of SME Committee of

Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFR).

Yannick TRANCHIER

Yannick TRANCHIER, former Offshore manager in several large IT

groups in France, has worked for 10 years with Russian partners. After

managing international industrial IT projects in many countries, he has

decided to dedicate his experience to startups and Russia-France

collaboration.

In 2011, Ob'vious SAS was created to give french startups the

opportunity to leverage their innovation through international

partnership, especially with Russian startups.

In 2 years, Ob'vious has accompanied a dozen of french and russian startups for :

- collaborative projects (OSEO-FASIE)

- Skolkovo application

- innovation strategy

- fund raising

- training & coaching

ООО ОБВИУС, russian subsidiary of Ob'vious, was incepted in April 2013.

And last but not least, the "Maison des Entrepreneurs Français" has opened in the very heart

of Moscow (near French embassy) in October 2013 for gathering french entrepreneurs in an

"innovation incubator".

Jean-Louis TRUEL

Vice Chairman, Cercle Kondratieff

HEC Business School graduate

PhD in Economics Université Paris-Dauphine

After first work experiences in the French Ministry of Industry, and in

Alcatel Group, Jean-Louis Truel co-founded Imecom Group a

telecommunication hardware and software company, in which he was

vice-president for finance and international development.

In 2004 he founded the company IBD which provides consulting

services in the areas of :

- Support for international business development for small and medium size high-tech

companies, with specific focus on Russia and CIS countries.

- Build-up of technological cooperations.

- Consulting on economic policy issues and on cluster development in Europe and CIS

countries.

Jean-Louis Truel is Vice-President of “Cercle Kondratieff” in Paris. Cercle Kondratieff is a

French Think Tank and Business Club gathering academics and business executives involved

in activities between France and Russia.

He is also a lecturer in several French and Russian Universities and he participates to many

international conferences on innovation.

Latest publication : “Russian policy of Innovation Centres in the light of international

comparisons”. Paper published in “Rossiskïa Economitcheskaïa Model, Dinamika i

Konteksty” Kuban University, Krasnodar, 2013.

Others:

- Adjunct Lecturer at Université Paris 12 Créteil - master programme in international

management focused on Eastern European countries and Russia.

- Lecturer at Université Paris 11 Sceaux

- Vice-president of Cercle Kondratieff, Paris. Cercle Kondratieff is a French Think

Tank gathering academics and business executives involved in activities between

France and Russia.

Nicolas VASSEL

Co-Founder, WIL&Co

In charge of the development of the company and project; specialized

in corporate management and Public relations. Nicolas holds a Master

Degree in Corporate Finance from INSEEC Paris and is graduated

from IDRAC Lyon Business School specialized in Corporate Finance.

He has also studied in Spain and in Russia.

About WIL&Co, the main idea arose in November 2012 between

Nicolas Vassel and Thibault Crouzet two French sharing the same

entrepreneurial values and the same passion for Russia. The objective

of its two co-founders is nowadays to transform this web company into

a major actor in the Eastern markets, through the establishment of new services, the

importation of new ideas and the emergence of new concepts in the World Wide Web.

Vasiliy VORONOV

Senior Manager, IT Strategy division, SBERBANK

Vasiliy Voronov is program manager of discovering, piloting and

adopting emerging technologies with focus on mobile payments in

Sberbank. He has over 10 years of experience in research and

development, technology integration, and emerging technology

adoption in different application domains, including team leadership

and management roles. Prior to joining Sberbank, Vasiliy was head of

benchmarking center with T-Platforms, local high performance

computing hardware equipment vendor. Before that he held project

management and software development positions in oil& gas

construction companies. Vasiliy has graduated from Lomonosov

Moscow State University with MSc in applied mathematics. He also

holds PhD degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University.