Executive Committee
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Anna S. Dvornikova Anna is a Founder and CEO of Entana Corp., an entrepreneurship and venture advisory firm that focuses on providing business strategy, planning, fundraising, and positioning services to the early-stage technology start-ups, as well as angel financing. Anna serves on the Advisory Boards and the Board of Directors of several technology startup companies. She is the author of many articles on entrepreneurship, angel and venture financing. Anna is the President of AmBAR, a non-profit business association of Russian-speaking professionals in the Silicon Valley with over 2,000 members. She is also a founder and the Chair of the SVOD Technology Investment Conference, a premier industry gathering which facilitates networking between Russian-speaking technology entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, angel investors and other technology experts. Previously, Anna was a Co-Founder and the VP of Business Development at BKP Security, a government IT security company. Prior to that, she was a Foreign Advisor at the international law firm of Coudert Brothers. Anna has her J.D. from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and her Master of Laws degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Denis Dovgopoly, Denis is Founder and Managing Director of BayView Innovations. BayView Innovations is a consulting company, dedicated to developing venture investment market in Ukraine by providing services to developers of promising commercial projects: finding financing for early stages of project development and rising project’s attractiveness for potential investors. BVI team has substantial experience in managing international projects, broad partner network in the Silicon Valley (California, USA) and has a deep understanding of Ukraine’s high-tech potential. Company’s mission is to educate and develop venture investment market in Ukraine, create image of Ukraine as a country with high RD potential, capable of creating competitive tech companies on global markets. Denis involved into Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference ( Mountain View , California , USA ), BIT ( Moscow , Russia ), Moscow Venture Forum ( Moscow Russia ), EMPEC ( Moscow , Russia ) as person who responsible for communications with Ukraine , he is was co-organizer of Investment Panel at Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Forum. Mr. Dovgopoliy is ideologist and organizer of seminars series “Silicon Valley Best Practice. Kiev Master Classes” and co-organizer of Management Tour to Silico Valley "Future of ІТ marketplace. New information Era. How to answer its challenge?" Before BayView Innovations, Denis was working in the Venture Capital & Private Equity Industry as a Managing Director of Center for Innovation Development (CID). CID is a member of Techinvest Group that works closely with Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Techinvest manages Ukrainian High-Tech Competition and provides technology business incubator management, consulting, training, market research for Ukrainian startups. Prior to CID Denis Dovgolopiy spent over 10 years in IT and telecommunications industry consulting. Denis was a co-owner and CEO of Profitcenter, management and consulting company and a co-owner of Mobile Marketing Research (MMR) Agency. Both Profitcenter and MMR were acquired by Center for Innovation Development. Mr. Dovgopoliy is a co-organizer of Conference "Client oriented company" (Education Management Industry). He was a commercial director at Novatek (Outsourcing/Offshoring Industry), Commercial Director at Ukrpage (Information Technology and Services Industry). Denis Dovgopoliy holds MBA degree from International Management Institute (Kiev) and MA degree in Aerospace Systems from Kyiv Politechnic Institute. |
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Stas Khirman Prior to founding Skyrider, Mr. Khirman founded Narus, a global leader in software and technology for the telecom industry and government agencies, where he helped designed the world’s most scalable network transaction analysis system. He had previously served as the networking group leader at VDOnet, a pioneer in internet video.
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Natasha Krol, Natasha Krol is a Managing Partner at Alexander and Krol, an Executive Search firm specializing in the US and Eastern European Technology Markets. Prior to that, she was a Senior Client Partner with Korn/Ferry International’s Global Technology Market, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. He clients included companies like Google, HP, Audatex, TransUnion and others. Ms. Krol has more than twenty years of experience in the development and application of information technology. Previously, Ms. Krol was a Founding Member, Vice President and Service Director of Advanced Information Management Strategies for the META Group (now Gartner), the leading provider of information technology research, advisory services and strategic consulting in Stamford, CT. Her clients included senior executives in Global 2000 companies, as well as the venture capital community. She was also instrumental in establishing company subsidiaries throughout Europe, South Africa and Asia Pacific. She began her career as a Marketing Officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ms. Krol holds an M.S. degree in Linguistics from St. Petersburg University. Ms. Krol has served on the technical advisory board for American Express, and has been a featured keynote speaker at more than 50 international conferences. |
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Alexei Kudriashov Prior to founding SperaSoft, an offshore software development and outsourcing services company, Alexei was a Channel Development Manager with the Software Marketing Group, Sun Microsystems. He was responsible for business and channel strategy and management in driving adoption and deployment of Sun's business productivity suite worldwide. Previously, Alexei founded Martak International, Inc., a manufacturer's representative and export company, distributing hi-tech and medical equipment overseas. He received an M.S. in Management and Business from MIT, Sloan School of Management and M.D. from Volgograd Medical Academy, Russia. |
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Andrey Kunov, Ph.D. Andrey is an entrepreneur focusing on technology startups. He is a co-founder of the US-Russia Technology Symposium LLC (Global Technology Symposium), "ABusiness" business magazine in Kazakhstan, and "3DMission" technology startup in California. Andrey is also interested in economic and political research on the issues related to Russia and Eastern Europe. Previously, he served as an Associate Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University. Before that he worked as a senior economist at the Institute for Open Economy, Moscow, Russia. Prior to that he was a researcher and academic coordinator at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Andrey received his PhD in political science from Stanford University, MA in international economics from the University of Newcastle (UK), MA in transition economics and politics from the Central European University (Hungary), and BA in philosophy from Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan). |
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Igor Leonov, Igor brings more than 15 years of experience in software engineering as an engineer, project manager and architect. Prior joining IBM, Igor worked as a lead Performance Architect at Kaiser Permanente IT. Igor's major role is to assess performance and scalability of software applications that serve 3.5 million of North California Kaiser Permanente members. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Igor worked at two Silicon Valley startups: Attest Systems and Softchain Inc. Before coming to the United States in 1999, Igor devoted 10 years of his life to Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, where he studied, developed educational software, conducted scientific research and taught engineering classes. |
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Julia Pogodina, Julia Pogodina is a business attorney with over 10 years of legal experience and is qualified to practice law in California and Russian Federation. She is the Principal at IBCI (International, Business, Corporate and Intellectual Property) Law Group and is "of counsel" at Intellectual Property Law Group. Ms. Pogodina specializes in business, corporate, international and intellectual property law. She represents domestic and foreign companies in various corporate, legal and business transactions, including structuring and negotiating cross-border deals. Besides legal, Ms. Pogodina also has an extensive business experience. She was the Director of the Moscow's North-Western Branch of Miel Real Estate Agency, major real estate agency in Russia, where she managed legal, financial, and sales activities. Prior to Miel she worked for Trud Joint Stock Company, where she handled a variety of legal and business matters including international business transactions and real estate. |
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Vera Shokina, Vera is a partner with Runa Capital, Moscow based seed and early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to joining Runa Capital, Vera was a Vice President with Silicon Valley Bank where she managed the bank relationships with early stage technology companies. Focusing primarily on VC backed software and services companies, she provided specialized debt financing, commercial banking products, venture capital assistance, international financing and products, and M&A advisory services for her technology clients. Previously, Vera held several senior banking positions both in Moscow and Silicon Valley , including with Goldman Sachs, GE Capital and Citibank. Vera holds B.S. from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages and MBA from the Finance Academy of the Russian Federation . Vera is a board member and a former president of AmBAR.
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Olena Stadnyuk, Olena Stadnyuk, MD, MPH is a Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Nexus Dx. Nexus Dx is a start-up funded by leading venture firms Bay City Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Prior to Nexus Dx, she was an Associate Director of Business Development at HX Diagnostics, another KPCB funded start-up. Before taking her role at HX Diagnostics, Olena worked in Genentech. Dr. Stadnyuk also worked in a venture capital fund Flagship Ventures in Cambridge, MA as an intern and Innovative Ventures Inc., a venture capital company located in Moscow, Russia. |
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Ekaterina Tumanova, Ekaterina provides outsourced services to several start-ups in the Silicon Valley. Her area of specialization is companies that either already have offices in both US and Russia, or plan to do it. Before moving to the United States in 2007, she held a position of Senior Accountant in Mobile TeleSystems (NYSE: MBT). There she was responsible for financial statements consolidation and control over North-West Region. She was responsible for tax accounting in that region and for international accounting of fixed assets. Prior to that, she was working as a Chief Accountant Officer and Financial Manager in Russian SMBs. |
