Company Founder

• Management Consultant (specialized in organizational changes, start-ups, strategic marketing, GR and PR), top manager with 20 years of experience
• Marina Lebedeva holds MBA degree, she studied at High Point University, took classes in management consulting from Nobel Prize Laureate Wassily Leontief in New York and graduated from the High School of Economics at Saint Petersburg State University of Economics.
• Marina Lebedeva started her career as a management consultant in one of the world’s major consultancies - Deloitee Touche Tohmatsu Limited - by a contract with USAID.
• She worked successfully with Russian and foreign businesses: German, French, Italian, British, Finnish, Swedish and Maltese.
• Marina Lebedeva was among founders of the entrepreneurship development and support system in Saint Petersburg and Russia. She has experience of successful implementation of major investment projects with foreign participation.

• Ruslan Useyev has 16 years’ experience in personnel management including six years of working as a Personnel Director;
• He has 11 years’ teaching experience, including seven years of being a seminar facilitator and business coach.
• He has seven years  of consulting experience
• Ruslan Useyev has experience of working in companies and with companies of regional and federal level, multibranch holdings, state-owned companies and with a corporate centre and its branches with numbers of personnel from 400 to 50 000 persons;
• He worked with the following industries: pulp and paper industry, wood industry, construction and construction production, wholesale and retail trade, logistics and telecommunications;
• He is experienced in strategic and operational task management in the field of personnel management, in interaction with representatives of executive power authorities of the Russian Federation, supervisory agencies and higher education institutions;
• Mr. Useyev has experience of project management, setting up own business, speaking at conferences and facilitating seminars about general management and personnel management;
• He has professional publications in «Personnel Management Handbook», «Delovoy Peterburg» (Business Petersburg), «Professia» (Profession), «Expert» and «HR Journal».

• Viktoria Sharapova has 15 years’ experience in personnel management including eight years of working as a Personnel Director;
• She has seven years of consulting experience
• Viktoria Sharapova worked for companies of regional and federal level and multibranch holdings with personnel numbers from 400 to 50 000 persons;
• She worked in the following industries: transport, logistics, development, dredging, telecommunications, pulp and paper and wood industry and industrial construction and housing;
• She has experience of working in corporations and company groups both at headquarters and factories.
• Board Member, Board of Directors’ Member of subsidiaries and dependent business companies;
• Experienced in working with foreign companies;
• Understanding methods of work with the Russian State Railways (RZD) and other state-owned monopolies
• Strategic and operational tasks management in the sphere of personnel management, interaction with shareholders and representatives of executive and legislative power;
• Ms. Sharapova has experience of cooperation with a number of higher education institutions of Saint Petersburg and she set up the «Institute of Competence Enhancement» at an existing technical higher education institution;
• She has ten years’ experience of tailored HR and management trainings, teaching at higher education institutions and speaking and session moderating at conferences;
• Professional publications in “Personnel Management Handbook”, “Expert” and “HR Journal”.