Kizima Maria Alexandrovna, co-founder and CEO of the digital franchise transactions platform SCALE IT. Co-founder of Franchising Intelligence. An expert in creating franchises. The author of the podcast «Franchisomania».

Mentor of Skolkovo, lecturer of the Moscow Innovation Cluster, lecturer at the Higher School of Economics (PhD course «Management in Creative Industries»). Member of the working group on franchising under the Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs of Moscow, head of the working group on franchising development strategy at the Russian Franchise Association.

Speaker of international forums: SPIEF, IP Quorum (Skolkovo), BUYBRAND, Congress on Franchising (Kazakhstan), Moscow Franchise Forum.

She worked on issues of franchising, legal aspects and building management companies with companies: MTS, FARSH, Uryuk, RYBAKOV FUND, RUS FOOD BANK, Coffeemania, DOBRO.CENTERS” (ABC), BEYOSA.RU, SAKHALIN CAVIAR HOUSE, FOODBAND, JOY’S PIZZA, PHALI KHINKALI, SCHOOLFORD and many others.

He specializes in the creation and scaling of franchises, intellectual property management, legal aspects of franchising, and the development of social projects using franchise technology.

The main topics of the presentations are the creation and purchase of a franchise, legal aspects, intellectual property, social franchise, management of a franchise network.

Author of publications in RBC, TASS, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Advocate Newspaper.