Mentors

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  • A strong leader with a vast experience in building customer experience and operational processes in fast-growing businesses. 
  • Sharing her background in project management, process optimization and organisational changes obtained in industry leading companies.
Olga Ivanova
ex-Customer Experience Director at Citymobil
  • A strong leader with a vast experience in building customer experience and operational processes in fast-growing businesses. 
  • Sharing her background in project management, process optimization and organisational changes obtained in industry leading companies.
  • A mentor for the STEM Technovation and Techgirls programs, graduate of the University of Glasgow and IMD Business school with 15+ years of management experience in the financial industry, banking business and 8+ years in digital business transformation.
  • Leading the practice of digital transformation of financial institutions at Strategy&, part of PwC in the Eurasia region.
Zhanargul Izimova
Strategy and Operations, Eurasia Advisory, PwC
  • A mentor for the STEM Technovation and Techgirls programs, graduate of the University of Glasgow and IMD Business school with 15+ years of management experience in the financial industry, banking business and 8+ years in digital business transformation.
  • Leading the practice of digital transformation of financial institutions at Strategy&, part of PwC in the Eurasia region.
  • An entrepreneur with 16+ of experience in the financial industry: Investment banking, Investment Management, and Capital Markets in Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, Reuters, and BMCE International London. 
  • Empowering women and underrepresented communities to attain a responsible and sustainable future for themselves and their generation through financial education and investing.
Rukayyat Kolawole
Founder and CEO PaceUP Invest
  • An entrepreneur with 16+ of experience in the financial industry: Investment banking, Investment Management, and Capital Markets in Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, Reuters, and BMCE International London. 
  • Empowering women and underrepresented communities to attain a responsible and sustainable future for themselves and their generation through financial education and investing.
  • An experienced professional with skills in managing, marketing and strategy, a member of the Forbes Council and the American Marketing Association.
  • Challenging commonly accepted business models while in search of new and innovative ideas to help move iDrive forward as a global society.
Egor Fedorov
Chief of Staff at inDrive
  • An experienced professional with skills in managing, marketing and strategy, a member of the Forbes Council and the American Marketing Association.
  • Challenging commonly accepted business models while in search of new and innovative ideas to help move iDrive forward as a global society.
  • Leading the finance division of inDrive, developing and executing the finance division’s strategy.
  • Raising equity and debt financing, as well as preparing the company for an IPO.
Dmitry Sedov
CFO at inDrive
  • Leading the finance division of inDrive, developing and executing the finance division’s strategy.
  • Raising equity and debt financing, as well as preparing the company for an IPO.
  • An experienced legal practitioner with a diverse professional background in IT, focusing on dispute resolution, compliance, global expansion projects, and more.
  • Advising tech start-ups and investors on various matters related to fundraising, shareholders’ disputes and legal due diligence of strategic investments.
Elena Mazetova
ex-Vice-President of Legal at InDrive
  • An experienced legal practitioner with a diverse professional background in IT, focusing on dispute resolution, compliance, global expansion projects, and more.
  • Advising tech start-ups and investors on various matters related to fundraising, shareholders’ disputes and legal due diligence of strategic investments.
  • A venture capital expert with 14+ years of experience.
  • Co-founding an AdTech startup and boasting a successful track record as a startup mentor.
  • Playing a pivotal role in helping 30 startups discover their product-market fit.
Nikita Yuriev
Investment Director, ultra.vc
  • A venture capital expert with 14+ years of experience.
  • Co-founding an AdTech startup and boasting a successful track record as a startup mentor.
  • Playing a pivotal role in helping 30 startups discover their product-market fit.
  • Communication, Branding, PR, Events, Finance, Telecommunications, Cultural, and many more.
  • Excels in creating and executing successful marketing campaigns, driving results, and fostering growth.
Julieta Trotta
Creator - Doer - Passionate - Builder
  • Communication, Branding, PR, Events, Finance, Telecommunications, Cultural, and many more.
  • Excels in creating and executing successful marketing campaigns, driving results, and fostering growth.
  • Building and shipping SaaS enterprise solutions.
  • Offering mentorship in challenges regarding digital product design and frameworks which founders could apply in order to experiment and learn fast. 
  • Sharing his experience with product roadmaps, product development and versioning for incremental releases.
Bruno Paim
Head of Product at Cromai
  • Building and shipping SaaS enterprise solutions.
  • Offering mentorship in challenges regarding digital product design and frameworks which founders could apply in order to experiment and learn fast. 
  • Sharing his experience with product roadmaps, product development and versioning for incremental releases.