Irina Arhipova

Public Affairs and Communication Director, Coca-Cola HBC Russia, Chair of the Board Association of Beverages and Juices’ producers

Education:
In 1996 Irina graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University, later in 1999 she finished State University of Management.

Professional experience:
Since May 2011 – Public Affairs and Communication Director, Coca-Cola HBC Russia
2007 – 2011 – Corporate Affairs Director, AB InBev Russia
1996 – 2007 – 10 years of experience in the tobacco industry (in Liggett Ducat, Gallaher, Japan Tobacco International)

Public activity and accomplishments:
In 2020 Irina headed the all-Russian rating of Directors and departments of corporate communications and corporate relations according to the Association of Communications Directors (AKMR)
Since 2017 Irina has been ranked in the TOP-3 Best Communications Directors of the FMCG industry according to the TOP 1000 Russian Managers Award organized by «Kommersant» and the Association of Russian Managers
In 2008 she entered the TOP-10 GR specialists in the rating of «The Most effective industry specialists in government relations» according to the Russian professional website of lobbying and GR Lobbying.ru
Irina is the regional coordinator for Russia at the European Association of Communication Directors (EACD) and a Member of the Board of the Moscow International Business Association (MMBA).

Teaching activity:
National Research University «Higher School of Economics» (HSE) and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public administration (RANEPA).

Irina is married, she has 3 children.

Alexei Chekunkov

Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic by presidential decree

He was born on October 3, 1980 in Minsk.
Graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (MGIMO) and Master's degree in State and Municipal Management of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU).
In 2001 - 2011 he held senior positions in the private equity industry in Russia. He managed major projects of international and Russian financial organizations, including those in the Far East - in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Khabarovsk Krai.
In 2011-2013, he participated in the creation, held the position of Director, member of the Management Board and member of the Investment Committee of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). He was responsible for investments in healthcare, energy saving, and the raw materials sector, as well as for the creation of the Russian-Chinese Investment Fund together with the China Investment Corporation (CIC).
In 2014 - 2020, he was CEO of the Far East and Arctic Development Fund (VEB.RF Group).
From 2015 to 2019, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of PJSC Alrosa.
Member of the Government Commission for Social and Economic Development of the Far East and the State Commission for Arctic Development.
Member of the Board of Directors of PJSC RusHydro.
On November 10, 2020, he was appointed Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic by presidential decree.

Dmitry Chumov

Head of Employer Brand Development at CROC

Dmitry Chumov has more than 6 years of experience in IT and education communications. He graduated from the RANEPA Institute for Social Sciences (ISS).
Head of Employer Brand Development at CROC, an international IT company. He also worked on educational programs for students and attracting young professionals. MMIBA certified trainer.

Vadim Galeev

Deputy General Director of Special Economic Zone"Innopolis

Studied at the University of Manchester Metropolitan (Business School, bachelor's degree), University of Exeter (Business school, master's degree). In 12 years, built a career from project manager of innovative Technopark "Idea" to Deputy General Director of Special Economic Zone"Innopolis.
During his successful leadership of the investors attraction unit such companies like X5 retail group, Magnet and others became residents of SEZ Innopolis, major IT industry events like TSIPR and Stachka were held, also number of effective resident consortiums were formed in the technological areas like Smart City and Industry 4.0

Marina Jigalova

Managing shareholder, Independent media

Investor, entrepreneur, one of the top leaders in the Russian media market. Currently, M. A. Jigalova is a member of a number of Advisory Boards and Boards of Directors of companies. She is the controlling shareholder of Independent Media, one of the country's largest media holdings, and is leading its digital transformation and long-term strategic development.
Currently she is developing projects in a number of technicall industries. Since 2016, a shareholder of the Independent Media media holding, since 2020 - a managing shareholder, leads the digital transformation of the holding and its long-term strategic development.
M. A. Jigalova has many years of experience in the operational leadership of diversified industrial companies, including strategy management, effective team building, and leadership in marketing infrastructure and communications, including reputation management.

Over the years, M. A. Jigalova has held top management positions in financial and industrial corporations, including Senior Vice President of PJSC "Sberbank", vice president FIG "Interros", Deputy General Director "North-Western Shipping Company", and a banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

In 2006, M. A. Jigalova founded the Russian office of the Walt Disney company and acted as its permanent head for 13 years. In this position, she was responsible for the development of all business segments and brands of the company within the territories of the CIS countries, including Georgia, and Mongolia. Under her leadership, Disney in Russia became the largest player in the country’s media and licensing markets and a centre of competence and innovation for the whole world. In addition, the industrial production of consumer goods was organized at 170 Russian enterprises which enabled the creation of more than 20,000 jobs.
For more than 10 years, M. A. Jigalova worked with the largest manufacturing and industrial enterprises while she was at the financial and industrial group "Interros". Additionally, she held the post of Deputy General Director of the "North-Western Shipping Company" where she was responsible for investment management, the development of an overall strategy, fleet renewal plans, financial policy, and relations with investors, company shareholders, and government authorities. Later, she held the position of the first deputy general director of the holding "Profmedia", a part of the "Interros" group, where she developed the strategy for the holding and exercised control over its implementation, supervised the operational management of the holding's activities, and the launch of new businesses. The result was the transformation of the company into the largest private media player on the Russian market.
M. A. Jigalova started her career at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, where she gained experience in the financial analysis of companies and investment projects, creating credit models, and structuring loan portfolios.
Over the years, M. A. Jigalova has held leading positions in the top management rankings, published by the Russian Association of Communication Directors and Corporate Media, and the publishing house "Kommersant" in category media business (Top-2 in 2017, 2018);
- in 2013 Award Winner of the "Business women" by Ernst&Young in the nomination "Media Leader" from 2019 became a jury member;
- in 2018 became a Winner of the first Super Woman award from GQ magazine in category "The habit of winning";
- the Winner in the nomination “Man of the Year” 2018 Blockbuster award;
- producer of more than a dozen films and TV series;
- co-founder of the Patriki Film Festival;
- M. A. Jigalova is a member of the Academy of Russian Television and the National Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences of Russia, member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation;
- the cinematic Award Winner of the “Golden Eagle 2019".

Polina Khabarova

Deputy CEO, HR Director, Chief Transformation Officer CROC

Deputy CEO, HR Director, Chief Transformation Officer
Polina Khabarova is a Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) and HR Director, responsible for leading internal transformation and talent management.
Polina is one of the major internal transformation thought leaders at CROC, guiding development of innovation culture and the launch of new product practices, including those in collaboration with foreign partners.
As an HR Director, she contributes to the company’s strategy by setting development vectors to improve operational performance and unlock human potential.
Polina graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a specialist’s diploma in Public Relations (2008) and a master’s degree in Management (2009). In addition, she completed the Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation course at Harvard Business School in 2018 and studied Agile Methodology at Columbia Business School in 2019.
For many years, Polina has been ranked by Kommersant among the Top 3 HR directors in the Russian IT industry and came first place in the rating in 2017. Furthermore, she was also invited as an expert to join the HR and Education team of the ‘Digital Economy. Russia 2024’ state program.

Renat Khalimov

Director General of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone

Academic qualifications:
Renat Khalimov graduated from the Kazan State Finance and Economics Institute in 2006 (Bachelor of Management). He has been granted the award of Master of Science of the Manchester Metropolitan University (International Business Management Programme) in 2007, got additional education at Business school of Fuqua at Duke University, Harvard Bisiness School and Chinese-European Business School (Shanghai).
Professional experience:
Renat Khalimov held positions of a sales and marketing manager in Cavendish Group Company (Great Britain), a specialist and expert in the Federal Agency for Management of Special Economic Zones (Russian Federation). He was appointed a Director of the Investor Relations Department of Alabuga Special Economic Zone (Russian Federation) in 2010 and Deputy CEO of SEZ Alabuga in 2011. In 2016-2018 he held a position of CEO of Polikhim Sistems Company (production of the polyurethane systems). In August 2018 Renat Khalimov was appointed CEO of Innopolis Special Economic Zone.

Ekaterina Luzhnykh

Country Sustainability and Community Engagement Manager, Coca-Cola HBC Russia

At Coca-Cola HBC Russia, Ekaterina is responsible for developing the country strategy sustainability and communities’ engagement and implementing large-scale projects in direct cooperation with government authorities, NGOs and key customers. In addition, Ekaterina is responsible for public non-financial reporting. Ekaterina started her career at Coca-Cola HBC Russia in 2015. Prior to her current role, Ekaterina held various positions in the Sustainability Center of Expertise and was responsible both for the formation of all non-financial reporting and social impact studies, and for the implementation of social projects in several key areas: youth empowerment, building an inclusive society, providing humanitarian aid and developing corporate volunteering. 

Ekaterina graduated with honors from St. Petersburg State University with a degree in International Relations, and also received a Master’s degree in Management of International Business of St. Petersburg State Economic University and Braunschweig Technical University (Germany). She also studied at the Institute of Political Science in Lille (Sciences Po Lille, France). 

Sergey Mironov

Founder of Meat & Fish Restaurants, President of Russian Union of Restaurant Managers

- Restaurateur, founder of Meat & Fish restaurants

- President of the Russian Union of Restaurant Managers

- Vice-President of the Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers

- Ombudsman of the Restaurant Business of Moscow

- Council Member of the “Business Russia” Moscow Branch; Chairman of the Committee for Development of the Restaurant Business

- Lecturer of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Deputy Head of the Department “Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry”

- Owner of the RestConsult restaurant business optimization agency
- Expert of the Small Business and New Employment subgroup of the New Hi-Tech Economy working group under the Government of the Russian Federation

- Member of the State Council of the Russian Federation, Commission on Small and Medium-Sized Entrepreneurship

- Co-Chairman of the Public-Business Council of the Headquarters for the Protection of Rights and Legal Interests of the Entities Engaged in Investment
and Entrepreneurial Activities in the City of Moscow
- Council Member of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI).

Igor Nosov

Acting General Director of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation

Born April 20, 1978 in Kazan.
Education:
Graduated from Cambridge University (Great Britain) with a degree in Management.
Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation with a degree in Jurisprudence.
Graduated from the University of Colorado (USA).
Graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration with a Master of Public Administration degree.
Winner of the Prize of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In November 2016, he was included in the "first hundred" reserve of management personnel under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation.
Career:
1994-1998 - Service in the bodies of internal affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan.
1999-2002 - Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Cooperation of the Republic of Tatarstan, Protocol Service Specialist
2002-2007 - Russian Representative Office of Philip Morris International, Corporate Affairs Specialist
2007-2010 - Special Economic Zone Alabuga (Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Special Economic Zones in the Republic of Tatarstan): Deputy Head (2007-2008); Head (2008-2010)
2010-2012 - Government of the Republic of Tatarstan: First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC SEZ Alabuga
2012-2013 - Moscow Government Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship: Deputy Head
2013-2018 - Innopolis Special Economic Zone JSC: General Director
2018-2020 - Deputy Governor, Deputy Chairman of the Government of Nizhny Novgorod Region.
2021 - First Deputy General Director of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation.
May 26, 2021 - Acting General Director of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation.

Irina Petrova

Country HR Manager Coca-Cola HBC Russia

Education

Graduated from Kuban State University with honors with degree in «Psychology». Candidate of Psychological Sciences.

Career
2005 – HR specialist in Moscow region
2006 – HR manager
2007 – Talent and development manager
2009 – Regional HR manager in Moscow
2010 – HR Business partner for commercial function
2014 – Country HR Manager Coca-Cola HBC Russia

Awards

Irina regularly ranks ТОP-1000 of Russian managers by Publishing House «Kommersant» among HR directors in FMCG. She held the first place in 2020 and in 2019, while in 2018 she was the second, and in 2017 took the first place.

Aleksandar Ruzevic

General Manager at Coca-Cola HBC Russia

Aleksandar Ruzevic was appointed General Manager at Coca-Cola HBC Russia in 2018.
Aleksandar was previously General Manager Coca-Cola HBC Serbia and Montenegro since 2015. He joined the Company in 1998 and has held a number of leadership positions, including General Manager Coca-Cola HBC FYROM, Commercial director Coca-Cola HBC Ukraine and Commercial director Coca-Cola HBC Serbia and Montenegro. Aleksandar has sustainably delivered results, returned Russia to growth in 2018 which continued in 2019 and successfully launched a number of new products on the Russian market.
Aleksandar Ruzevic has a degree in Law from the University of Belgrade. He is married and has three daughters.

Andrey Skvortsov

co-founder of Mercator communications company, expert in corporate and media communications

An expert in corporate and media communications with 25 years of experience. Author of films and presentations for companies such as Sberbank, Gazprom, MMK, Yota, Orange, Kaspersky, Russian Railways, PwC, Vimetco, MICEX, Rostelecom, Rosnano, Sibur, Pfizer, etc.
Winner of the Harvard Business School investment presentation contest. Author of articles on marketing and public speaking in Harvard Business Review.
Curator of infographics service of Russia-1 TV channel, as well as “Russia in Figures” and “Big Country” projects of Russia-24 TV channel, “Moscow in Figures” and “Comfortable Moscow” projects of Moscow-24 TV channel. Academician of the Russian Television Academy since 2010. Host of “The Weather on NTV” (recognized as the best correspondent of the infotainment genre at NewYorkFestivals in 2012).
In 2013, he was the host of the “Open PR” program on the PRO-business TV channel. In 2014-2015, he hosted the “It’s Good Where We Are!” travel program on NTV.
Author and facilitator of communications trainings at Gazprom, Sberbank, Deloitte, Evraz, Severstal, ChTPZ, Alfa-Bank, etc., as well as at the Moscow government and winners of the Leaders of Russia competition. Guest lecturer in public speaking at the Skolkovo business school. Author and teacher at seminars and workshops on Public Speaking, Storytelling, Infographics, and Presentation Films.

Alexandra Tsygankova

Country eCommerce Manager, Coca-Cola HBC Russia

Alexandra is responsible for the development of e-commerce in Coca-Cola HBC Russia.
Education: Organization Management, Clinical Psychology and MBA.
Has more than 7 years experience in management of client service in advertising agencies from auto to pharmaceutical sector.
For 4 years she managed Digital & eCommerce direction in Ferrero Russia.