Mentor Hours

Consultant, Marketing & Sales Expert with 20+ years of experience
• Collaborated with multinational companies and major brands, including Gazprom, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Panasonic, Nokia, Raiffeisen Bank, and the 2014 Olympic Games.
• Played a key role in bringing IT startups to the Russian and MENA markets: www.startup-booster.ru
• Worked across diverse domains: AI/ML, HRtech, NFT, Data Centers, OS, CRM/ERP/BPM/BI.
• Mentor at Startupbootcamp, a global accelerator.
• ICF Certified Coach.
• Jury member at the Silver Mercury Advertising Festival.
• Certified Tracker, Tracking Academy.
• Certified Executive Coach, 5 PRISM.
• Fundraising and Marketing Consultant for several charitable foundations.

A practitioner in the field of finance and management with over 20 years of experience. For over 17 years, he was the CFO of JSC «Medicine» .
Mentor Skolkovo and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Oleg Dolgopolov is a Business Development Director and strategist with 26 years of experience in industrial automation, digital transformation, and engineering. Specializes in developing integrated solutions for mining, chemical, and manufacturing enterprises, localization of imported equipment, and managing EPC(M) projects worth up to €4+ billion. Previously held leadership roles at Rostec, FLSmidth, and major industrial holdings; currently founder of an R&D team ensuring technological independence and partner at Hyperrealistic Strategy consultancy. Develops and executes growth strategies, brings IoT/IIoT solutions to market, attracts investments, and establishes communications with C-level clients. Helicopter view, problem-solving, cross-functional management, B2B sales of high-tech solutions.

IT and business development expert.
Leading analyst, marketer, mentor, and entrepreneur

Venture partner of the Friendly VC investment Fund, associate partner of O2Consulting.
I have been involved in venture capital investments for 18 years, 6 years of experience as a tracker in corporate accelerators, a lecturer in economics at the HSE, Moscow State University, and ITMO. Previously, he worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-author of the Young Scientist’s Handbook.
I am a member of the Committee on Ecology and Sustainable Development of the Moscow State Educational Institution Opora Russia, a member of the Skolkovo Mentor Club, a member of the National Association of Certified Advisors, and a member of the CCI Commission on Venture Financing.

25+ years of experience in the fields of
digital transformation, business analysis, IT project management, and crisis management.
More than 30 major projects in the energy, telecom, aviation, and transport sectors.

Specialist and postgraduate degree from MIEM and Strelka Institute in the Hybrid Urbanism program.
I have 20+ years in IT, am a technical director and solutions architect.
I specialize in distributed systems, agent-based modeling systems, data management, and artificial intelligence.

Financial partner with 14 years of experience in corporate finance
Progressed from economist to CFO and strategic consultant
Over 100 completed projects with hands-on involvement across various industries
Supporting business owners and investors as a partner in finance and strategy
Mentor at Skolkovo Foundation, business tracker, and speaker on finance

Managing Partner TheQube VC business accelerator, business tracker, investor, with 20 years of experience in digital advertising and IT in leadership positions at PepsiCo, Mindshare, and Dentsu. Mentor at the Skolkovo

Expertise: launching and scaling startups, strategic and operational management, marketing strategy, promotion and sales, process optimization.

10+ years of entrepreneurial experience.
Exposure to 350+ projects across IT, Promtech, EnergyTech, Fintech, and GameTech.
Tracker and lead tracker in FRII programs (Go Global, Sprint, FSI).
Tracker and corporate program coach at Gazprom Neft PJSC, speaker in Skolkovo Open University programs, and lecturer/tracker in MIPT master’s programs (FBVT, SHIR).
Former Director of the Technology Transfer Center at Irkutsk State University and former head of the ForestTech accelerator.
Founder of a Skolkovo project participant company. Co-founder of the Catapult Solutions Lab.
Raised more than RUB 500 million in investment for businesses.

👋 Hi! I’m Boris Nikolaenko.

Mentor at the Skolkovo Sales Program

I help B2B companies with annual revenue from 200M RUB grow sales through:

✅ commercial function audits
✅ training for selling to enterprise clients
✅ development of heads of sales

More details here: https://nikolaenkoboris.ru/

🚀 12+ years in B2B sales:

Sales leader (employee roles): Flocktory, Calltouch, Yandex.Taxi

Flocktory and Calltouch were acquired by strategic investors with valuations exceeding 1B RUB — hence strong expertise in IT product sales.

Co-founder:

Built the Turbotarget business unit from scratch within Kokoc Group
Reached 120M RUB annual revenue
Still a shareholder, no longer CEO

Consultant:

Currently helping companies strengthen sales and commercial management.

20+ years of experience in B2B/B2C marketing and GR, with expertise in digital transformation, community building, and organizing and conducting business events.
I have experience managing teams of 3 to 50 people, both offline and remotely.
I have unique experience working in SMBs, corporate segments, and public administration. I have extensive cross-industry
experience as a Skolkovo Foundation mentor, expert, and acceleration program tracker since 2021.
As a pet project, I created the largest Telegram Mini Apps community in the CIS through native
mentions in Telegram and UBT from video content: podcasts, vertical videos with cross-posting to all
possible platforms (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, VK, Zen, TenChat, OK).
Key competencies: marketing strategy, digital transformation, community building, GR,
product management, content marketing (including video production), event management, CRM marketing.
Member of industry communities: mentors, trackers, MarCom. I am a Product Radar «hunter» and a
member of the Board of the National Association of Certified Advisors. I have a wide network
in the fields of marketing, communications, technology, and creative entrepreneurship.

HR consultant and training expert with extensive experience as a Chief Learning Officer in large companies, Skolkovo mentor, speaker and moderator of international profile conferences, inventor of new training formats. Business leaders and entrepreneur.

Certified bilingual facilitator, business coach, assessor and consultant, ATD member since 2015.

Author and presenter of courses on management and leadership, cross-cultural communication, public speaking and speaker training in Russian and English.

Independent expert, Mentor, ex-Microsoft, ex-IBM
Alexander has thirty years of experience in information technology field and professional services, including digital transformation consulting, enterprise architecture, data and artificial intelligence, startup development.
His leadership and people management experience includes cross-cultural team management within international environment.
Experience in B2B Solution Sales methodology.

Mentor of the Skolkovo Foundation, Head of Practice and senior lecturer at the Department of Advertising and Public Relations in the Media Industry at Moscow Polytechnic University, guest lecturer at the University of Synergy. Born in 1976, she graduated from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (2000) and the Presidential Management Training Program (2006). Since 1997, she has been working in the field of advertising and marketing. At the moment she is engaged in scientific research on the topic of fashion and creative industries clusters at the Institute of Management Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Also, she is the author of a number of publications in Russian and international scientific magazines on education, creative industries, cultural code and identity studies. Speaker of Russian and international scientific and practical conferences. For more than 25 years (since 1997) she has been working as marketing director in various companies in the field of FMCG, MICE, HORECA. Currently, she is engaged in consulting projects in the field of marketing, international and strategic development of b2b and B2C companies. Fluency in English, practical and theoretical experience provide an opportunity to give lectures to international students, as well as being invited speaker at Russian and international scientific and practical conferences. Alumni of IPU RAN, PhD thesis is on creative industries development.

Consulting & Industry expirience

From 2002 to the present: CEO of LLC «BBC+», business consultant, the company is a stable among the
market leaders of management consulting and business training in the Krasnoyarsk region.
Experience in conducting training and implementing consulting
projects in 17 cities of the Russian Federation with about 300 client companies
from the SME sector and several dozen companies from large international and
Russian business.
Management consulting in the areas:
✓ Increase in labor productivity («lean production»), since 2006. In
2020, the implementation of 3 projects in the Krasnoyarsk Territory within the framework of the National
project «Increase in labor productivity» and in 2021, the implementation of a project in
the Republic of Tuva. Implementation of projects in such companies as: SIBUR, Federal Passenger Company, FortNox, Siberian Tool Repair Plant, East Siberian Metallurgical Plant,YeniseiAgroSoyuz, Radiosvyaz, Berezovskoye, Siberian Generating
Company, Alt-Plast, Tyvaenergosbyt, etc.
✓ Development and support of the company’s development strategy. Companies such as: WorldClass Krasnoyarsk, GreenLight, Optika chain of salons Davydov, dance center ANiceDay, YeniseyAgroSoyuz, Almakor, Sibtime chain of watch salons, etc.
✓ Implementation of service and sales systems: MonolitHolding, «Fortress» (dealer of about a dozen car
brands in the Krasnoyarsk Territory), Avtograd (Tyumen), etc.
✓ Training system for the management reserve of enterprises: RN-Vankor, SGC, TsAVS, etc.

Director of FIRON (https://firon.org/), operator of the Skolkovo Foundation in the Rostov Region.
I manage the largest private technology coworking space in the South of Russia, RUBIN (https://rubin61.ru/).
I am a Skolkovo tracker and mentor, as well as an accredited auditor.
Since 2016, I have been helping technology projects become businesses.
The main areas of work at FIRON include:

• Acceleration
• Pre-grant project evaluation
• protection of intellectual property
• holding forums, project pitches, and hackathons
• additional professional education for adults, including training for trackers.
  With my support, regional startups have attracted 320 million rubles to their projects over the past 5 years, and 70 startups have become residents of the Skolkovo Foundation.

Mentor of Skolkovo Accelerator accelerators (80+ residents, 200+ rebuilt products), with 10 years in enterprise presales of complex IT solutions and experience managing innovation projects in telecom and system integrators.

Education: Executive MBA – Strategic Management, ICF Business Coach.
Pedagogical – Teacher. Psychological – Human Resources Management.
Certified consultant in management and strategic development of enterprises.
Director of development and human resources management with over 20 years of experience.
Expert in strategic management. More than 500 hours of business consulting and mentoring.
Key competencies: strategic audit of startups, building management systems, and overcoming growth crises (Adizes model).
For startups: strategic audit, systematic management, and overcoming growth crises.
For businesses: team diagnostics and strengthening, management and development strategies, and HR strategies for scaling.
I do not provide ready-made solutions. I help startup and business founders assemble a team. I help them position their players and win matches rather than individual attacks.

Co-founder & CEO of Texel, PhD, expert in digital transformation: GenAI & agentic AI, computer vision, and high‑performance computing. Previously at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology; IEEE 3D Body Processing standardization committee. I help teams adopt an AI‑augmented operating model (always-on monitoring agents, agile roadmap, rapid integration), eliminate blind spots, and make decisive, reality‑based decisions.

Maxim Yatskevich. Skolkovo expert.
CEO of Product Psychology (trainings, strategic consulting) and the Metathentic Club of change Leaders.

Mentor of the Year 2024 Skolkovo - brought 150 projects into the ecosystem, including T-Bank, OFD, Stepik, Tenchat.
Leadership coach - developed teams at Lukoil, Megafon, Uralsib, Alfa Bank, SDEK, Avito
Founder of the Metathentic Change Leadership Club - 50 people in 4 months
,Speaker of the Alpha Conference on leadership. 20 cities, 17,000 people
First Person Coach (ICF, provocative approach, >2000 hours of practice)
He attended lectures and trainings in 130 cities of the Russian Federation in 50 regions.

,ex head of VTB, SBER, NFP, Road.travel
🔹Launched two international projects with revenue of 500 million and international coverage of 60+ countries.
,Member of Alumni Business TRIZ

Expert in the development of technology companies and digital transformation. I help companies grow: strategy, development, Skolkovo.

15+ years in AdTech and E-commerce. Built commercial divisions at Yandex; as CCO/COO of Ozon Global, launched international offices in China, Turkey, and the CIS, assembling a 230+ person team across 5 countries.

Today — Skolkovo and FRII mentor, executive coach, and co-founder of Oratix.ru: an AI-powered training simulator for salespeople and sales team analytics that generates a personalized development plan for each manager.

22 years in Russian pharmaceutical marketing, R&D, and business development, holding positions as Director and Advisor for marketing, medicine, and strategic development.
Conducted marketing due diligence for hundreds of pharmaceutical projects, including dozens of innovative ones.
Manage projects from the proof‑of‑concept stage through late lifecycle phases and rebranding.
Support biomedical and pharmaceutical startups at the Skolkovo Foundation and several other MTC accelerators.
Mentor and expert at the Skolkovo Foundation, technology broker at the National Association for Technology Transfer.
Member of the National Association of Researchers and Research Organizations (NARRO), participant in the “Strategic Flexibility” working group.
Author and host of a Telegram channel.

CFO CBDO TMH Group, LokoTech, SKK

Strategic-level leader within the ecosystem of scientific organizations subordinate to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Head of the research division focused on artificial intelligence and its applied implementation in the real sector of the economy.
20+ years of experience in scientific research and 10+ years in commercializing scientific outcomes.
Initiator and founder of a resource center for socially oriented non-profit organizations, a social accelerator, and a supporting digital platform for the non-profit sector, ATLAS-NKO.RU. Proven track record in implementing large-scale regional projects (recipient of the CIPR Federal Award in the “Development of the Year” category).
Expertise in evaluating technology projects for the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE), the Federal Targeted Program “Research and Development,” the Presidential Grants Foundation, business accelerators, competitions and programs such as “Digital Breakthrough,” “Priority 2030” (Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia), and “Digital Chairs” (Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Digital Economy”). Accredited expert in the Federal Register of Experts in Science and Technology. Mentor at the Skolkovo Foundation.
Areas of expertise: information and cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, robotics and instrumentation (in medicine and agriculture), future medicine, continuing professional education , GR (government relations)

Mentoring Program Lead