Programme

Stanislav Shekshnya, Senior Partner at Ward Howell, has been involved in professional development of top managers for business and organizations since 2002. He works both individually with company owners and directors and with teams of managers. Stanislav also lectures in Leadership and Corporate Governance at the international business school INSEAD (France). Stanislav is the author of seven books, including the bestseller “Human Resource management in a modern organization” (7 editions since 1995), as well as “How to manage free manpower effectively. Coaching”, “New leaders of Russian business”, “How to say that in Russian (Kak eto skazat’ po-russki)”, “Corporate governance in Russia” and over fifty articles published in Kommersant, Vedomosti, Expert, Secret firmy (Trade secret), Generalny Director (General Director), Forbes, Upravlenie personalom (HR Management), Kompaniya (Company), Harvard Business Review Russia, Harvard Business Review Germany, Academy of Management Executive, European Management Journal, Journal of West-East Business, California Management Review, Compensation and Benefits Review, Journal of Management Inquiry, Organizational Dynamics, The International Executive, World Business, L’Expansion Management Review, etc. In his first professional capacity, Stanislav Shekshnya was a top manager, holding the post of General Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Executive Director and Human Resources Director for such companies as Alfa-Telecom, Vimpelcom, Millicom International Cellular, Otis Elevator, and SUEK. He still works on the Boards of Directors of NIS, Ener 1, DTEK BV, and VimpelCom.

Since 1993, Michael Abyzov held senior positions in several fuel and energy companies. In 1998 Abyzov became a board member and head of the department of investment policy and business projects at RAO "UES of Russia". Since 1999, Abyzov has been the Deputy Chairman of the Board at RAO "UES of Russia". From 2003 to 2005 Abyzov was chairman of the board at JSC "Russian Communal Systems". Since 2004, due to organizational structure changes at RAO "UES of Russia," Abyzov was appointed a member of the Executive Board and managing director of business unit number 1. From 2005 to 2007 he was the general director of CJSC "UK KRU." From 2006 to January 16, 2012 Abyzov M. A. was Chairman of the Board of Directors to the business group RU-COM. From July 2007 to January 16, 2012 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC "E4 Group" From August 2007 to January 2011 Abyzov was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC "Mostotrest". By Presidential Decree on 18 January 2012 (Decree no. 81) he was appointed Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation. By Presidential Decree on 21 May 2012 he was appointed the Minister of Open Government.

Born in 1952 Krasnoye village, the Hvastovichi district of the Kaluga Region. In 1974 graduated from Moscow Agricultural Production Engineering Institute named after V.P. Goryachkin. On graduating the institute came to Hvastovici district of the Kaluga Region, where worked as a state farm “Hvastvichesky" repair shops’ chief. Since 1975 - Chief Engineer of the state farm "Shahtovsky" in Mosalsk district. In 1978 was appointed "Gruzdovsky" state farm Director. In 1985 - Chief of the Regional Agricultural Department, and a few months later was elected First Secretary of CPSU Mosalsk district committee. In 1991 was appointed Obninsk construction and industrial joint stock company CEO. Since November 1996 – Vice Governor of the Kaluga Region. November 12, 2000 was elected Governor of the Kaluga Region. March 14, 2004 was elected Governor of the Kaluga Region for the second time. July 22, 2005 according to the new order of forming executive powers of governmental authorities the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin introduced A.D. Artamonov’s candidature for considering of the Kaluga Region Legislative Assembly to appoint him the authority of the Kaluga Region Governor. July 26, 2005 the Kaluga Region Legislative Assembly deputies made up their minds to appoint A.D.Artamonov the authority of the Kaluga Region Governor for a five year term on a special session. July 26, 2010 the Governor came into office for another term on.

Mr. Aleksandr A. Auzan was born in Norilsk on July 11, 1954. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and now holds a degree Doctor of Science (Economics) and Professor. At the end of 1980s, Mr. Auzan became one of initiators to start consumer right associations. He was a member of the Bureau of Consumers International, a global consumer organization. From 2005 to 2011, he was head of the Association of Russian Economic Think-Tanks (ARETT). He was a member of the RF Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights and the RF Presidential Commission for Modernization and Technological Development of Russia's Economy. He also was head of the Advisory Working Group of the Commission. From 2011 to 2012, Aleksandr Auzan was head of the Expert Group "Optimization of State's Presence - Reducing Regulatory Functions and Ensuring Transparency and Feedback from Citizens and Businesses" to update Strategy 2020. Currently, he is a member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Advisory Council under the Russian Government, Governmental Commission on Administrative Reform. Mr. Aleksandr A. Auzan is the author of more than a hundred scientific papers, including four monographs. He regularly publishes articles and gives interviews to the media. He also gives lectures on institutional economics, modernization of the economy, socio-cultural values, and dynamics of the social contract. It has many years of practical experience in advising national and regional governments.

She graduated Cum Laude from Povolzhskaya State Service Academy. From 1997 and 2007, she worked in finance and in the Saratov region headquarters at the Central Bank of Russia. Ms. Batalina received a PhD in Economics in 2002. In March 2006, she became a member of the Saratov State Duma, where she served as the Saratov Deputy Head of Administration for the social sphere. In 2011, Ms. Batalina was appointed Deputy Dean of Innovative Development and Government Relations at Povolzhskaya State Service Academy. In 2011, she became the chief administrator of Vladimir Putin’s public offices in the Saratov Region. In December 2011, Ms. Batalina was elected to the 6th convocation of the State Duma. She initially served as Deputy Committee Head for Federal Administration and Local Self-governance, and became First Deputy Committee Head for Family, Women and Children’s Affairs in June 2012. From 2012 to 2014, she was the Deputy Secretary General of the United Russia board. In November 2014, she was elected the Duma Committee Head for Labor, Social Policy and Veteran Affairs. As of December 17, 2014, she is the Chairman of Central Council of Party Supporters.

Mr. Pekka A. Viljakainen was born in Finland 1972. He studied engineering at the University of Technology in Lappeenranta. Thanks to his technical background, Mr. Viljakainen has for 25 years worked as an ambassador between business executives and technology teams. He started as an entrepreneur in 1986, by establishing Oy Visual Systems Ltd. (1986-2004). His company was merged with TietoEnator in 2000. Mr. Viljakainen is widely known by his nickname, Bulldozer. The nickname was earned by his reputation and track record for handling very complex governance and political topics inside large international organizations. During his corporate carrier he acted as trusted advisor for CEO’s and chairman’s specializing for the transformation related to enterprise digitalization and HR. After 26 years of his active Visual Systems-Tieto carrier, he left from operative roles on 2011 and focused to his non-profit leadership education project called www.nofear-community.com . Because of this he has been visiting speaker and advisor for several international corporations and faculties (like IMD Business School). In 2012 Mr Viljakainen was invited to act as senior advisor for the president of Skolkovo Foundation. Since that he has been acted as a founder and advisor for several nationwide entrepreneurship programs in Russian Federation. Russian StartupTour 2013-2014 (16 + 28 Russian cities) and StartupVillage concepts has key elements of those actions. During those programs he has build a strong network of entrepreneurs, local governmental institutions as well as universities across Russia and abroad. Mr Viljakainen is the member of Strategic Board of the Russian Postal Service and Board of Directors of Soprano Communications. Mr Viljakainen is also known as investor, business angel and advisor for several high-tech companies. Those activities are handled thru his family investment office called www.Aii.fi He is also well known supporter and philanthropic for several areas related to education, classical music as well as several social projects. His hobbies are helicopter flying PPL(H), cross country skiing, weight lifting and triathlon.

The President and one of the founders of Ward Howell, the premier Executive Search and Leadership Development consulting company in Russia and CIS. Sergey's focus is on dealing with CEOs and business owners, including shaping and development of entire executive management teams and complex transnational searches, he is also responsible for work with state and public institutions. In 1998, Sergey was listed in The Global 200 Executive Recruiters rating as one of the top 200 senior management recruiters in the world. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), of the Russian Federation Presidential Council on the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, of the Expert Council for the Russian Federation, and the Board of Trustees for the Russian Economic School Endowment Fund, he also serves as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of a number of leading Russian companies. Since 2002 he has been a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and an honorary co-founder of its Russian branch. Sergey graduated from St. Petersburg State Technical University, Radio Physics Department in 1987 and Joint School of Business Administration (St. Petersburg engineering-economics institute and the French government agency, L'ACTIEM) in 1991. Throughout his entire career Sergey has been participating in Leadership development internships and Executive Education programs in both corporate and leading international business schools, incl. Harvard Business School, Eisenhower Fellowship, INSEAD, and London Business School

Alexander Galitsky is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital Partners. Almaz Capital Partners has offices in Moscow, Russia and Menlo Park, CA, and is backed by Cisco Systems, EBRD and IFC. He is a well-known innovator, entrepreneur and investor in Russia/CIS, Europe and the USA. Prior to Almaz, Alexander formed the ICT investment practice at Russian Technologies, one of the first venture capital funds in Russia, and made a several private successful investments. His past and current investments include: Parallels, Yandex, QIK (sold to Skype), Vyatta (sold to Brocade), Acumatica, Jelastic, NavMaps (sold to TeleAtlas), 2Can, Alawar, AlterGeo, SJLabs (sold to VocalTec), EverNote, GridGain, WikiMart, etc.Prior to his investment career, he founded and headed five successful high-tech companies as CEO, including ELVIS+, TrustWorks Systems (sold to Hamsard), EzWIM (sold to TMT Ventures), ELVIS Telecom (sold to Telenor), NPC ELVIS. He specialized in WiFi, Virtual Private Network technology and product development on the Global market in partnership with Sun Microsystems and was a pioneer of the Russian Internet industry in 90s.

Robert (Bob) Dudley is BP’s group chief executive. He was appointed an executive director of BP on 6 April 2009. Bob joined Amoco Corporation in 1979, working in a variety of engineering and commercial posts. Between 1994 and 1997, he worked on corporate development in Russia. In 1997, he became general manager for strategy for Amoco and in 1999, following the merger between BP and Amoco, was appointed to a similar role in BP. Between 1999 and 2000, he was executive assistant to the group CEO, subsequently becoming group vice president for BP’s Renewables and Alternative Energy activities. In 2002, he became group vice president responsible for BP’s upstream businesses in Russia, the Caspian Region, Angola, Algeria and Egypt. From 2003 to 2008 he was president and CEO of TNK-BP in Moscow. On his return to BP in 2009 he was appointed to the BP board and oversaw the group’s activities in the Americas and Asia. Between 23 June and 30 September 2010, he served as the president and CEO of BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization in the US. He became group chief executive on 1 October 2010. Bob Dudley holds a Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, a Masters in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and an MBA from SMU.

Sergey Kravchenko holds post of president of Boeing Russia/CIS since 2002, he is responsible for leading all Boeing business activities in Russia and the CIS. Kravchenko joined The Boeing Company in 1992. He directly participated in Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner program design, held leading positions in engineering departments in Seattle responsible for production and relations with suppliers and partners. In Russia, he led Boeing projects on participation in ISS, establishment of two Boeing joint ventures with Rostec /VSMPO, Boeing Design Center in Moscow, Boeing Flight Training Center in Skolkovo. Before Kravchenko joined Boeing in 1992, he worked as a professor and as the lead scientist of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also taught in Moscow and worked as a research consultant in Europe, the United States and Asia. Sergey Kravchenko is one of the leading specialists in Russia on modern management of large international projects and companies. Kravchenko is a professor and holds a doctorate degree of engineering science, earned in 1990. He holds over 20 patents in various areas of engineering and has published more than 50 research papers.

Greg spent the first 10 years of his EE career in various leadership positions at Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE). Greg served in the roles of Chief Operating Officer EU/South Africa, Global Head of Marketing and Business Development, Managing Director and Academic Director. Greg’s responsibilities during his tenure and his input and ideas influenced global strategy, program design and delivery, organizational strategy, portfolio growth, talent development and global expansion. In 2013 Greg was appointed Chief Representative/Managing Director of Americas, for Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), where he was responsible for setting strategy & leading its growth initiatives in the Americas. Greg currently works with a leading US leadership consulting company, MDA Leadership, with expertise in assessments, coaching and leadership development. Greg is also a successful entrepreneur serving as Senior Strategic Advisor for the start-up Courslatyics, Inc., an internet platform for global enterprises to easily search, compare and purchase executive development programs from the leading business schools around the world and he is co-founder of Sustaining Excellence, LLC an organization providing leadership development for United States, NCAA woman athletes. Greg has worked with many global blue-chip companies in the EE space including IBM, Philip Morris, Microsoft, Motorola Solutions, American Express, HSBC, Qatar Leadership Center, and Etisalat. Greg has a MBA in Marketing & Finance from The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University an AMP Certificate in Global Leadership from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a BS degree in Finance and Accounting from Illinois State University.

Antti Parviainen is an entrepreneur and acts currently as the chairman of the board in the fastest growing financial technology company in Finland; Innovestor Ltd. Innovestor is specialized in funding early stage companies through its digital co-investment platform and venture capital fund in Russian, Nordic, Baltic area. Mr. Parviainen has a strong background in capital markets and financing. In his previous position he was in charge of Nordea Bank’s derivatives, fixed income and structured product business areas. Mr. Parviainen has also been active in regulatory projects. He was a member in Europeans Securities Market Authority’s FISC –committee during 2013-2015. Committee’s goal was to map out such new financial innovations, which might cause systemic financial risk in European area. Parviainen has also chaired the Finnish Structured Products Association (FSPA) during 2006-2013. FSPA’s role was to set the standards for new investment products in Finland. Mr. Parviainen has a master’s degree in Economics from the Business School of Turku. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis related to behavioural finance. Parviainen has written two investment books: “Capital Protected Investing, 2011, Talentum, 3 editions” and “Become a millionaire by investing, 2012, Talentum, 2 editions”. He also writes a monthly column in the Finnish financial magazine Arvopaperi. Parviainen is also very active angel investor personally. His portfolio consists of approximately 15 early stage start-ups form Life Science-,Fintech-, ICT and Cleantech industries.

Artem Khromov was born on 2 November 1985 in Moscow. In 2003 he finished Mosow school № 1203. In 2008 graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University. In 2011 graduated from postgraduate program of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Since 2011 up to the present time has been serving as chairperson of the NGO "Russian Students' Union". In 2014 took office as Ombudsman for Students in Russia.

PwC, Global Strategy and Leadership Blair Sheppard joined PwC in June 2012 as Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership. Blair leads the team who focus on strategy and leadership for the PwC Network, working closely with leaders of the lines of service, clients and markets, and PwC member firms. He is also Professor and Dean Emeritus of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Prior to joining PwC, Blair was Special Advisor to Duke Kunshan University and was responsible for directing corporate development, non-degree programme development and regional development for the newly formed campus in China which opened in summer 2014. From 2007 to 2012, he was the Dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University during which time Fuqua opened offices in five locations outside the U.S., developed a pre-experience Masters programme already considered to be one of the best in the world, and rose across all business school rankings significantly. Until 2015, Blair served for as the Chair of the Board for Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE), a company that he founded in 2000. Under his leadership, Duke CE grew from one office to multiple offices on three continents and was ranked #1 in the world for customised executive education by the Financial Times and BusinessWeek for twelve years in a row. Blair has advised more than 100 companies and governments in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy, organisational relationships and design, and has published more than 50 books and articles. Blair was the first recipient of faculty of the year at Fuqua; received the Business Person of the Year award for Education in 2011 (Triangle Business Journal); Eminent Scholar Award, Institute of Finance, Frankfurt University in 2007; and was a Canada Council Doctoral Fellow. Blair received his Doctorate in social psychology from the University of Illinois in 1980 and his Masters from the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario) in 1977.

Lev Jakobson is a Doctor of Economics, First Vice Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), a professor of the Department of Applied Economics. He is the research supervisor of the Center for Studies of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector at NRU HSE and the director of the International Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies NRU HSE. Dr. Jakobson graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University, in 1975. He worked as a senior lecturer, associate professor and professor at the Faculty of Economics from 1975 through 1997. Since 1997 Dr. Jakobson has been Vice Rector and First Vice Rector of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Currently Dr. Jakobson is on the Presidium of the Council for the Implementation of National Priority Projects and Demographic Policy under the President of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the following boards and councils: Presidential Council for Combating Corruption, Expert Council under the Russian Federation Government, Higher Attestation Commission under the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science. Dr. Jakobson authored over 300 academic publications in Russian and international journals focusing on issues of public administration, social policy, and finance, including monographs, manuals and educational materials. Dr. Jakobson was decorated with the Order of Honor (2009) and the Order for Services to the Nation, 4th Degree (2012). He was also awarded with two Certificates of Appreciation by the President of the Russian Federation.