Organizers

Alexandra Johnson

Alexandra Johnson

Alexandra Johnson is Managing Director of DFJ-VTB Aurora. She is based in Silicon Valley and focuses on early-stage communications, media, and technology companies headquartered in Russia and the CIS. Prior to joining DFJ-VTB Aurora, Alexandra was Founder and Managing Director of Landbridge Capital, an investment firm targeting US-based companies commercializing Russian technology.

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Christopher Stone

Christopher Stone

Christopher Stone is Executive Director of the Global Technology Symposium and is general counsel to Generation Group, a family office with a significant venture investing business in the former Soviet Union and Western Europe. Previously, Chris served as policy advisor to US Senator Jeff Bingaman (D NM) in the areas of…

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Ilya Vinogradsky

Ilya Vinogradsky

Ilya Vinogradsky is Founder and CTO of SysIQ, a San Francisco-based provider of e-commerce services for the retail and mail order industries, where he manages the company's infrastructure and client implementation processes. Before co-founding SysIQ, Ilya served as Senior Software Engineer at Kana Communications…

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Van McCormick

Van McCormick

Mr. McCormick is Founding Director of IEA. Before IEA, he was Director of Investment Symposia and Harvard-Kommersant Program lecturer both at Harvard's Belfer Center. Prior to that, he was Principal Lecturer for the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH).

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Piotr Moncarz

Piotr Moncarz

Piotr Moncarz is Corporate Vice President and Principal Engineer at Exponent, a Silicon Valley science and technology public corporation. Piotr's work focuses on the energy sector, including power plant development projects and operational risk management in the oil and gas industry. He leads Exponent's Energy Initiative Program…

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Don Williams

Anda Gansca

Bio to come.