About Anna
Anna is seasoned innovation, technology transfer and transformation professional with a unique blend of business development and execution capabilities focusing on venture building.
Over 9 years of leadership experience driving complex innovation projects with various stakeholders to success.
Recent positions include:
Technology transfer director at the global top-100 university in computer sciences (QS WUR Ranking);
Expert to Ministry of Science & Higher Education in technology transfer and entrepreneurship;
Head of Innovations at Intergovernmental R&D Center (similar to CERN);
CEO of a pre-seed venture builder;
Strategy Director at Moscow Innovations Agency;
Strong global business experience:
10+ years with Big4 business advisory companies KPMG, PwC and ATKearney;
Extensive network of former clients and innovation professionals in France, Spain, Italy, UK, US, Poland, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
Graduated from MIT Sloan 2 year program of innovation entrepreneurship
Core competencies
• Business & IT Transformations
• PMO, Project Management
• Change Management
• IT Change: ERP, CRM (MS Dynamics, SAP)
• Executive-Level Leadership
• Executive training and coaching
• Organizational Development
• Performance improvement
• Strategic Planning & Execution
• Market Analysis & Penetration
• Business Development
• M&A Integration, IPOs
Industry Experience
Public Sector; Education & Science; Diversified Corporations, Oil & Gas; Fuel & Energy; Real Estate; Retail; FMCG; Manufacturing; Banking, Venture Capital
Russian
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Conversational
Ukrainian
Conversational
Spanish
Basic
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lille (up to 100km), Toulouse (up to 100km), Nice (up to 100km), Strasbourg (up to 100km)
Experience
- GATE Leadership SchoolCo-Founder, COOFebruary 2022 - Today (4 years and 4 months)Paris, France
- ITMO UniversityDirector Technology TransferMarch 2020 - April 2022 (2 years and 1 month)St Petersburg, Russia- Set up Technology Transfer Office: design IP Policy, select prospective IP, develop protection and go-to-market strategy- Promote University IP to international markets and corporate partners- Restructure and Manage portfolio of University spin-offs- Lead advisory projects for National Ministry of Science & Higher Education:- national project for technology entrepreneurship in universities,- strategy development, transformation and digitalization of regional universities.
- JINRHead Of InnovationJune 2016 - August 2020 (4 years and 2 months)Moscow Oblast, RussiaI was brought onboard to advise leadership within the International R&D Center (organization similar to CERN) on a range of strategies to drive innovation across all departments. Was relied upon to develop the BRICS R&D infrastructure collaboration strategy at the request of the Ministry of Science. ★Developed the infrastructure collaboration IT platform brics-grain.org for the project. Designed and launched the Technology Transfer Office including developing the Office's operational framework and identifying/prioritizing the technologies and infrastructure projects. Executed a comprehensive performance review and restructuring of spinoff companies. Spearheaded the development of components for the Science City strategy including technology cluster & SmartCity concepts, securing investors, and urban development.
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Education
- Executive education, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies; TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management2016Executive education, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies; Technology
- Executive Education, Open Innovations and Corporate Venture FundsRussian Venture Company, RVC2016Executive Education, Open Innovations and Corporate Venture Funds