
Managing Director at Infotropic Media
Russian Federation

Managing Director at Infotropic Media
Russian Federation
Extensive experience in professional publishing with focus on the Russian and CIS markets, successfully built up and managed two legal and tax/accounting publishers (subsidiaries of multinational publishing groups)
Successfully introduced the "Wolters Kluwer" brand into the Russian market and developed it into one of the leading brands in terms of consistently high product quality on the Russian market for legal information products.
start-up management, business development, team building, crisis management, acquisition preparation and management, brand introduction / brand building, strategic planning
(Publishing industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
(Public Company; WKL; Publishing industry)
August 2003 — January 2009 (5 years 6 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
July 1998 — July 2003 (5 years 1 month)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WLSNC.AS; Publishing industry)
May 1996 — February 1998 (1 year 10 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Import and Export industry)
October 1991 — May 1996 (4 years 8 months)
Transtech Communications was the European subsidiary of a Russian mid-size group of companies, Suprimex. They were active in timber trading, banking, insurance. My job was to establish and manage the company and to co-ordinate timber exports to European clients.
Business Administration 1990 — 1994
Business Administration, Finance 1988 — 1990
professional: information technology, content management systems, electronic publishing, e-learning, knowledge management personal: photography, astrophysics