Tony Fernandes and his partners founded Air Sdn Bhd in 2001. They do this to try to wrest the "air" from elite’s hands and democratize air travels by offering low prices and high quality. Their motto is "Now everyone can fly!" They bought the loss-making AirAsia then for a symbolic price of 1 Malaysian rupee (0.25 US cents), and agreed to assume a 40-million-debt of the airline.

Tony Fernandes and his partners started with two planes flew in two directions of Langkawi Palau and the 250th State. Currently, the airline including Indonesian and Malaysian subsidiaries operates 82 new Airbuses-A320s and flies in more than 65 directions from the major cities of Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia throughout Asia. The company employs 7000 people and has transported more than 75 million passengers for its short life.

In the distant nineties the former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations founded a company "Finances of Petr Aven". It earned on transactions with external debts, particularly debts of India and Ghana, as well as with the commercial debt of the former USSR.
Petr is a well-known patron and collector. He owns the Russia's largest collection of Russian painting of the early XX century. In November 2012 at Christie's auction in New York he bought a painting by Wassily Kandinsky "Study for improvisation 8».

Fortune Small Business Magazine named him as "one of the ten major thinkers in small business." His nickname is Growth guy! Verne sincerely believes that any business not only has a right to grow and develop, but also must do it in spite of everything. And his big ambition is to help business grow, show loopholes, open the brain which is afraid to scale, and give people the power to change. He is the author of the bestseller «Scaling up».

He started his business with unusual project Cybiko. It’s a gadget where you drive in the information of human parameters that you may like, and when the subject of the appropriate parameters is 150 meters away, the unit starts to vibrate alerting! After September, 11 event, the idea kept fading, and it was replaced by an electronic dictionary, which later degenerated into ABBYY as we know it. David is a restaurateur and supporter of a healthy diet yet. David, being an author of many publications and a holder of several patents, is one of the most prominent IT entrepreneurs in Russia. He is interested in contemporary art and architecture.

Kostygin began to earn as a student. During his studies at the Military Medical Academy in the early 1990s he helped foreigners to rent rooms in hotels, sold military uniforms, boots, earflapped fur hat, and as he said in an interview, then "invested in one, then in other». He admitted to journalists that his first million dollars he earned in 1994, and three volumes of Ayn Rand’s works published in 1996. The same year the first notable Kostygin’s investments occurred when together with his friend Vadim Gurinov (now - the general director of "Stroytransgas") he founded "Petroimport". In 2005 it was purchased by Heinz. In the early 2000s Kostygin and Meyer came in "Lenta" retail chain. In 10 years the company has resounded all over the country due to the confrontation of partners with other shareholders. In 2011, Kostygin and Meyer sold about 42% of "Lenta" for $ 1 billion to investment funds TPG Capital, EBRD and "VTB Capital". The proceeds from the sale businessmen invest in projects at the consumer market from online sale of footwear to major cosmetics retail.

From October 14, 2013 he is a CEO of JSC (later PJSC) "VimpelCom". In this position he began to change the company's policy with regard to customer service. He pays much attention to the living communication with customers in social networks and his personal blog.
While working in "VimpelCom" Slobodin became famous as a business blogger. Among the most popular publications is the post about the situation in the oil markets during the devaluation of the ruble and its sequel a year later.
In 2015, Mikhail Slobodin won first place in the nomination "Telecommunications" in the ranking of the top leaders of the newspaper "Kommersant"

His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNBC.
His book Conscious Capitalism was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2013, and rose to №2 in the Wall Street Journal in the category of "business leaders". To write this book, Raj investigated hundreds of cases of companies which main asset is people and their well-being. Concept of conscious capitalist is a philosophy based on the belief that a more complex form of capitalism arises while the quality of life of billions of people (whether employees, customers and partners) improves.
Raj advises and teaches programs for world leaders such as AT & T, Nokia, LG, DPDHL, POSCO, Siemens, Sprint, MCI, Volvo, IBM, EY, Walmart, McDonalds

A professional negotiator. From 1994 to 2001 he served at Israeli Prime Minister office, engaging in the settlement of difficulties with Palestine. He developed the Negosystem© model for negotiation systems. He is a founder and president of Nest Consulting, its purpose is to use the technique of negotiation for private business.
Cristal graduated from Bar-Ilan Law School (Israel) and Harvard Kennedy School of Government (US).
He lectures on international negotiations and civil crisis management at Tel Aviv University and the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
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Born in 1987 in Germany. He is a graduate of the European Business School Oestrich-Winkel.
In January 2011 he founded the company "Kupishoes" LLC together with Dominik Picker, Florian Jansen and Burkhard Binder.
In less than two years the project has attracted record investment from large companies such as JP Morgan, PPR Group and Access Industries ($ 130 million).
Today, the company is actively developing not only in Russia but also in Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

He was born in a family of Russian Germans in Kazakhstan. At 7 years of age he moved with his parents to Germany.
He started working at 11, delivering newspapers and magazines. He worked on all the "ordinary" jobs from the warehouse to the refuelling station. His first own business was online store, started from selling sports nutrition, then offering other popular items, like slimming belts. His business had to be closed, when it was necessary to perform alternative civilian service.
He worked at BMW office in Malaysia for 3 years, then in the Moscow office of the Boston Consulting Group, cherishing the idea of his own business. In 2008 he founded the online shopping club KupiVIP.ru, selling world clothing brands at discounted prices.
In April 2011, the company attracted record for the Russian market investments of 55 million dollars. The company already employs 800 people and a number of registered users of KupiVIP.ru services has reached 7 million.
Oskar started the store when people consider Internet shopping to be a kind of shamanic ritual and asked if the goods will be delivered or not, what guarantees are, or just went to the shopping centers.

He was the first in his industry, who was not afraid to break new ground. His project started as something extraordinary, we have not seen such cartoons since the days of the USSR.
Ilya Popov can be called a man who greatly influenced the development of the licensing market in Russia. Through his work animation project "Smeshariki" was the first of the domestic children's brands to be actively licensed. Today the Riki Group founded by Popov contains more than 18 companies, including Petersburg Animation Studio, a production center Riki, licensing agency Marmalad Media, publishing company of children's literature Umnaya Masha and the digital publishing New Media. Ilya Popov was the producer of the projects as follows: "Fixiki", "Alice knows what to do!", "Kumi-kumi". For producing of "Smeshariki" he was awarded the State Prize for achievements in the field of culture.

Professor of Macroeconomics and Director of the International Module of EMBA and MBA programs in China, SKOLKOVO Rector Advisor of Academic Affairs.
From 2012 he is a Visiting Professor in Economics as well as in Business and Management of SKOLKOVO EMBA program in Asia.
Having obtained the Bachelor's degree at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Master's degree at Fudan University in Shanghai, Thomas defended his PhD thesis at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). In addition, he holds a position of Director of the China Training Center at HSG. Tomas also contributes to the training of managers in Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and Fudan University’s School of Management.
Tomas’s international experience and his sensitive approach to cultural issues determine the fame of his programs on cross-cultural management and the conduct of business in Asia. His recent research focuses on work of high-performing teams of leading experts. Article http://trends.skolkovo.ru/2015/07/tomas-kasas- dlya-be- in-trend- xxi-vek- vek-navedeniya- mostov-mezhdu- evropoy-i- aziey-rossiya- v-etoy - situatsii-obladaet- unikalnyim- konkurentnyim-preimushhestvom /

Alexander Ivlev heads EY company in Russia. Alexander is actively involved in the work of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council in Russia. In 2007 Alexander Ivlev was included in the list of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum. In 2009 he was included in the "First hundred" reserve of administrative staff, under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation. He is a vice-president of the International Expert Council in Russia of the World Economic Forum. Alexander won the first place in the "Top 1000 Russian Managers" ranking of senior management at Association of Managers as well as in the "Professional Services" category of Publishing House "Kommersant".
Alexander is a member of the expert council of the forum "Open Innovation", the Executive Committee of the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, the organizing committee of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the Public Council of The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. Alexander is the executor of the road map " Quality improvement of regulatory environment for business" in the framework of the "National business initiative."
Alexander Ivlev oversees the international program "Entrepreneur of the Year" in Russia. Alexander has more than 20-year- experience in strategic business planning, provision of customer services, interaction with government agencies and corporate management.

Alexander Ivlev graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University (1991). He has a Master's degree in Business Administration, University of Chicago (USA) (2003).

He was born January 18, 1968 in Salekhard. He graduated from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in field of Geology of oil and gas. In 1995 together with the friends he founded the company "Ruyan". At various times "Ruyan" created brands such as "Raptor", Mosquitall, "Twist", the Salton, the Forester, "Expedition" and others. All the brands have become leaders in their respective fields in the former Soviet Union countries.
Since 2002, the company has been developing the umbrella brand "Expedition". Currently, the "Ruyan" company group owns the brands "Expedition" and "Expetro!". The "Expedition" brand contains different products and retail network in Russia and abroad, restaurants and saunas, Internet store, an international off-road race "Expedition-Trophy", the park "Expedition" in the suburbs of Moscow, Stroganina-Bar and club "Expedition", almanac and film production. One of the major projects of recent years has been the foundation and construction of Ruyan-city in Siberia. He is married with 4 sons.

He was born in the village of Novo-Kuryanovo in the Moscow Region on January 14, 1958. He is a graduate of the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy with a specialization in Agronomical science. In 1980 he was postgraduate assigned to work to the State Farm "Belaya Dacha", started his career as the assistant of foreman. Under his leadership, the farm became agrofirm and then the Group of companies "Belaya Dacha". The company group is still leading the development and introduction of new technologies in the production of food, ready-to- eat fresh salads and vegetable mixes, landscape gardening. It is also the largest developer in the Moscow region.
In 1998-1999 he was a Minister of Agriculture and Food RF.
In 1999-2011 he was a 3 rd , 4 th and 5 th State Duma Deputy of FA of RF.
Since 2000 he has been a head of the Committee on development of agro-industrial complex of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.
In 2000, he founded and headed the Association of agribusiness industry associations (ASSAGROS).
In 2014 he founded and headed Multiregional public Movement for the revival of spiritual traditions "Orthodox Russia".
He is an Honoured Worker in Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
He is actively involved in charity work. He created a charity fund of social initiatives "National Enterprise". The fund supports the programs of the Moscow Regional Children's Burn Center, Children's and Youth Sports School of Olympic Reserve "Squirrel" and the regional hippotherapy center. The fund implements a program "Save Our Forest" redeveloping Tomilinsky and Kuzminsky parks. He is actively involved in the revival of spiritual relicts of the Moscow Region. With the blessing of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II he took part in the creation of a farmstead of Nikolo-Ugresha Monastery in Kotelniki and the construction of the church of the holy martyr Victor at Damascus, the first and only temple in honor of the saint in Russia.
In 2011, with the assistance of the Russian Geographical Society and the Foundation "National Enterprise", he put the sacred space "Mount Athos. Images of the Holy Land" on the first Russian show in the State Historical Museum on Red Square.
He was awarded the Order of Friendship and the Orders of the Russian Orthodox Church of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, of St. Sergius of Radonezh and of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
He is married. He is a father of two adult children and a grandfather of six grandchildren.