Speakers information

State bodies and nonprofit associations:

Vladimir Gorbachyov,
the State Duma of the Russian Federation deputy,
Vice-chairman of the Information policy, information technologies
and communications Committee
Nav Bains,
Senior Project Director,
GSM Association

Company profile: The GSM Association (GSMA) is the global trade group representing more than 750 GSM mobile operators across 218 countries and territories of the world. The Association's members represent more than 3 billion GSM and 3GSM connections - over 86% of the world's mobile phone connections. In addition, more than 200 manufacturers and suppliers support the Association's initiatives.

The primary goals of the GSMA are to ensure mobile phones and wireless services work globally and are easily accessible, enhancing their value to individual customers and national economies, while creating new business opportunities for operators and their suppliers.
Alexander Krupnov,
Prezident,
Infocommunication Union

Organization profile: Infocommunication services sarket participants Union was created as a result of reorganization of the Third Generation Telecommunication Networks Operators Association (3G Association), which was established in 1999 by the major Russian mobile networks operators.

Union mission: promotion of implementation of perspective technologies, creation of conditions for the further development of the infocommunication market and transition to the Global information society for the fullest satisfaction of population needs in new services.
Andrey Skorodumov,
Executive director,
Infocommunication Union

Organization profile: The Infocommunication Union is comprised of the 5 leading Russian mobile networks operators: VimpelCom, Delta Telecom, MegaFon, Mobile TeleSystems, Moskovskaya Sotovaya Svyaz.

The group of associated members consists of the 47 companies and organizations: сellular & long-distance, fixed & transit networks operators; research-and-development, research-and-production and engineering organizations; vendors; system integrators; content and service providers and software development companies, SIM vendors; investment and consulting companies, conference and exhibition organizers.
Ivan Kuznetsov,
Mobile Payments Project manager,
Infocommunication Union;
Vice President, JSCB Tavrichesky

 Company profile: The St. Petersburg joint-stock commercial Bank Tavrichesky was established in 1993 by a number of industrial and commercial enterprises, oriented to production and implementation of highly technological output.

Since 2000 the Bank has been working over the mass electronic bank payments adoption, which is straightly related to mobile commerce. Within the framework of this activity – development of electronic prepayment financial products, construction of mobile commerce business models and their promotion in the market.

Bank Tavrichesky (general license CB RF №2304) has 16 departments in Saint-Petersburg and 7 branches in other cities.
Liisa Kanniainen,
Executive Director,
Mobey Forum

Company profile: Mobey Forum is a global non-profit organisation, driven by the finance industry. We promote secure and convenient mobile banking and payment services. Our mission is to facilitate banks to offer mobile financial services by creating sustainable business models through cross-industry collaboration.

Mobey Forum organizes four two-day Plenary Workshops per year, each specially designed to address the most challenging current issues, facilitated by recognized leaders within the industry. Our Workshops are highly interactive with opportunities for strategic learning, networking and sharing of peer experiences. Additionally Mobey fosters ongoing Workgroups and Task Forces in order to promote the exchange of expertise, insight and solutions.

Mobey Forum is a global organisation with more than 50 member companies, each an important player in the mobile financial services ecosystem. Mobey Forum members include leading financial institutions, mobile handset manufacturers, telecom operators, payment processors as well as leading technology vendors and other companies actively involved in mobile financial services. A complete member list and more information is available at the Mobey Forum web site www.mobeyforum.org.
Igor Zagorsky,
Deputy Director of the government services department,
Rosinformtechnologies
Mikhail Mamuta,
President,
Russian Microfinance Center

Company profile: The Russian Microfinance Center Foundation (RMC) was established in July 2002 in response to the need for an organization which represents and advocates for the interests of the entire microfinance community.

The RMC's mission is to promote a strong and sustainable microfinance sector in the Russian Federation, facilitate access to financial resources for SME and low-income people, create jobs and improve living standards of the poor.

RMC serves as a resource center for Russia's microfinance industry and a national forum for its interaction with the government, public, and investors; it advocates for an enabling legal environment for microfinance; offers training and professional consulting services to microfinance institutions, and promotes national microfinance standards.

The RMC's key partners include bank associations (the Association of Russian Banks, the "Russia" Association of Regional Banks), credit cooperative associations (the National Union of Organizations for Mutual Financial Assistance, the League of Credit Unions), business associations (the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, OPORA Russia), and academia (the Higher School of Economics, the Academy of National Economy under the RF Government, the Academy for Management and Market). As of the early 2007, the RMC served a total of about 400 banks and non-bank microfinance providers.

Foreign companies:

Samee Zafar,
Director in the London office,
Edgar Dunn Company

Company profile: Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) was founded in 1978 and now has offices in London, Frankfurt, San Francisco, Atlanta, Sydney, and Singapore. A new Paris office is opening this year. EDC are recognised as one of the world's pre-eminent management consulting firms in the payments industry. With international experience gained from engagements in over thirty five countries spanning six continents, we have advised banks, card issuers, acquirers, third-party processors, and payment associations on the card industry’s most significant issues.

EDC has an experienced team of experienced consultants with broad range of language skills relevant to the European market. In addition to our international team EDC has a pool of associates of all levels and industry backgrounds to draw on.

Given EDC’s deep experience in navigating these emerging challenges in the mobile space as well as acting as advisors to several payment providers (both emerging and established), EDC is uniquely positioned to financial institutions and others existing and aspiring payment providers in developing their MFS value propositions.
Brian Morris,
Senior Business Leader,
MasterCard Worldwide | Europe

Company profile: MasterCard Worldwide advances global commerce by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide. As a franchisor, processor and advisor, MasterCard develops and markets payment solutions, processes over 18 billion transactions each year, and provides industry-leading analysis and consulting services to financial institution customers and merchants. Through its family of brands, including MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus®, MasterCard serves consumers and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. For more information go to http://www.mastercard.com.
Igor Boyarenko,
"Identification" unit Business development manager,
Central and Eastern Europe,
NXP Semiconductors

Company profile: NXP is a leading semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has 31,000 employees working in more than 20 countries and posted sales of USD 4.8 billion (excluding the Mobile & Personal business) in 2007.

NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, mobile phones, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices.

NXP's contactless technologies are designed to track inventory, improve logistics and protect people's information-driven lives. NXP technologies can be found in everything from Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that authenticate medicines, to e-ticketing systems that cut commute times and e-passports that fight identity theft and increase border security. NXP is a worldwide leader in NFC technology codeveloped together with other companies. For more information see www.nxp.com.
Carsten Kress,
Sales Director,
paybox solutions AG (“paybox”)

Company profile: Paybox solutions AG (“paybox”) is the trendsetting company for mobile payment enterprise solutions. paybox set up operator-led, national mobile Payment standards in Germany and Austria. Recognised for having the broadest mobile Commerce offering worldwide, paybox mobile payment enterprise solutions are deployed across Europe, North and South America, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. paybox is an official GSMA Mobile Money Vendor and a G-Cash Remittance Partner. For more information on paybox, please visit www.paybox.net.
Dirk Reddmann,
Project Manager,
RMV (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, Rhein-Main Railwayman Union)

Company profile: The RMV is one of the largest public transport companies in Europe, serving over five million inhabitants in the federal state of Hesse, Germany. The RMV
is responsible for organising and coordinating the regional rail transport network and for integrating the long-distance, regional and local city rail transport to form one overarching transport network linking 156 public transport companies. For more information on the company please visit www.rmv.de
Susumu Sone,
Region Manager,
FeliCa Department,
Sony Corporation

Company profile: Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and on-line businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading electronics and entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $88 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. Sony Global Web Site: http://www.sony.net/

FeliCa is the contactless IC card technology developed by Sony Corporation. Offering the highest transaction speed in the industry, the secure RFID communication, has been extensively deployed by public transport operators and enhanced to offer a range of value-add applications including e-cash and loyalty.
Erik van Thielen,
VP Europe & Africa,
Transfer-To

Company profile: Transfer ToTM is a leading global mobile airtime network enabling small value transfers through mobile phone. With this solution, migrants can send mobile credit from their mobile phone or through retailers to their relatives back home. It is a fast, reliable and convenient solution for international mobile top-up.
200 million migrants remit over $300 billion back home. 65% of mobile subscribers worldwide are prepaid, they perform 49 billion top-up a year. Our innovative solution complements their existing regular remittance and opens a new market for small value transfers on special occasions.
For more information, please visit our website: www.transfer-to.com
Tero Mononen,
Sales director,
Venyon OY

Company profile: Venyon is driving seamless communication in NFC ecosystems by developing and operating a secure and versatile service platform to be used for the over the air (OTA) provisioning of the consumer applications, such as credit cards and transport tickets, to consumers’ NFC enabled mobile devices. Acting as a Trusted Service Manager (TSM) Venyon offers white-label OTA services for mobile operators, banks, transport companies, retailers and other service providers, who are offering different applications for consumers’ NFC devices. Venyon is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and has offices also in Munich, Germany, Dallas, USA and Singapore. For more information, please visit our website www.venyon.com.



Russian companies:

Sergey Kiryushkin,
General director,
CJSC ANK

Company profile: The closed joint-stock company ANK was founded in February, 2004.
The company is the center of a technological competence and participants support and is a bridge certificate authority of the creating Russian certificate authority association. This role defines a structure of the company’s activity. The basic active of the company is the knowledge and the experience of the practical using of the certificate authority from a moment of the acceptance of the law of the Russian Federation «About electronically digital signature».
The company is focused on the work with the government, the organizations and the organizations of all patterns of the ownership, and natural persons both in the Russian Federation and abroad.
The spectrum of the rendered services corresponds to the current legislation of the Russian Federation and meets the requirements, showed to the certificate authority and the organizations engaged in the protection of information.

The basic directions of the activity of the company are:
  • performance of the bridge certificate authority functions uniting the various certificate authorities in the system by means of use cross-certification mechanisms;
  • gathering, analysis and generalization of problem questions in the field of public keys infrastructure construction and digital certificates application;
  • services of legal examination and support of electronic legally significant document circulation systems;
  • functional and loading tests carrying out of hardware-software platforms of the certificate authorities, public keys infrastructures, complex systems of protection of the information;
  • performance of all design stages, introductions and supports of the certificate authorities, information systems compatible with public keys infrastructures, complex systems of protection of the information;
  • work on research of information systems security with recommendations delivery on construction and optimization of complex systems of protection of the information;
  • development and registration protection profiles and security targets for the certificate authorities and other public keys infrastructures elements.
Alexander Evtyushkin,
Special projects director,
OJSC CyberPlat

Company profile: OJSC CyberPlat is the leading Russian Internet company offering its services in the e-commerce segment, including payment processing and secure online document interchange. The company’s product CyberPlat®, the universal multibanking integrated internet-payment system, is the absolute leader in the payment acceptance market.
Currently, the CyberPlat® cash acceptance network consists of approximately 430,000 points of sale worldwide, accepting cash payments for the benefit of the leading telecommunication service providers, commercial television and numerous service providers nation-wide, including Beeline, MTS, MegaFon, Tele2, NTV-Plus and many others. CyberPlat also accepts payments in favour of Russian operators via the partners in more than 200 countries. The major partners are Western Union and Fixed & Mobile.

The total turnover of the system comprised 120.7 billion rubles (or 4.74 billion US dollars) in 2007, which is over 20% of all Russian operators’ turnover. In 2007, the system processed over 1.25 billion transactions.

CyberPlat conducts the international operations accepting payments in favour of mobile operators of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Austria, Germany.

CyberPlat electronic payment system is an associate member of GSM Assiciation.
Kirill Petrov,
Executive director,
i-Free

Company profile: i-Free is a dynamic, innovation-minded company, providing mobile value added services and content since 2001. i-Free is currently among the leading providers of content services in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. As of October 2008, i-Free’s subscriber base exceeded 56 million individual users, with a potential audience of around 1,6 billion yet to be reached. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, i-Free employs more than 300 highly qualified staff in its offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Mexico City (Mexico), Mumbai (India), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Beijing (China).

i-Free’s business specialisms are development and publication of quality content (images, music, Java and BREW games), creating and marketing complex communication services and infotainment services, as well as mobile marketing, mobile banking, mobile vending, media integrated projects, production and aggregation of mobile video content for 3G networks.

For further information on i-Free, please, refer to www.company.i-free.ru/eng/
Yuriy Kolotov,
CEO,
Krasnodar Payment Systems

 Company profile: For successful implementation of the project Computer-based Information System of Service Rendering and Accounting for the Population using unified card and NFC telephones in Krasnodar Region, the company Krasnodar Payment Systems (Krasnodarskiy Platezhnye Sistemy) has been established, the company owns Unified Computer-based Systems of Control (UCBSC) and carries out the following functions:

  • General management if the project on the territory of Krasnodar Region;
  • Processing and data storage collected from the data acquisition subsystems, from subsystems of data distribution, money accounting;
  • Interaction with payment platform MOBI Money and with enterprises and entities of Krasnodar Region Settlement and adjustment of regulatory and contract relations;
  • Get of profit.
Dmitry Prokudanov,
Key Projects Director,
Mobi Plat
Ibragimov Ruslan,
Vice President for Corporate and Legal Issues,
OJSC Mobile TeleSystems

Company profile: Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS. MTS services over 91.33 million subscribers (as of July 31, 2008). MTS provides mobile communications in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus, the territory with a total population of more than 230 million.
Pavel Roytberg,
Director Product Development,
OJSC Mobile TeleSystems

Company profile: MTS has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since July 2000 and trades under the ticker MBT. The Company’s shares have been listed locally on Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) since November 2003 under the symbol MTSI. The free float of the Company’s shares is approximately 46.7%. MTS is 52.8% majority-owned by Sistema, the largest private sector consumer services company in Russia and the CIS.

In 2007, MTS’ revenues grew 29% to $8.2 billion. According to Informa Telecoms & Media's World Cellular Information Service, MTS ranks as the 8th largest operator in the world by proportionate subscriptions at the end of 2007.
Ivan Sharkov,
Product and Services Development Division Manager,
CJSC Sky Link

Company profile: Sky Link is the largest Russian CDMA operator which provides mobile data and voice 3G services to 850 000 subscribers (according to the companyR17;s information by September 2008) in regions of Russian Federation with 80% of population in total. Sky Link network is based on the CDMA2000 1X EV-DO technology (radio interface 450 MHz).Technological advantages of the new digital standard give Sky Link subscribers the highest mobile Internet speed and data transfer (up to 1.8 Mbs for data sending and 3.1 Mbs for data receiving), high-quality voice communications and the ability to store and access any information and multimedia services (from streaming video to data attachments for a business) that are not accessible in the functioning 2G networks.

Closed Joint Stock Company Sky Link was founded in June 2003. The company strategy is further underscored by the development of mobile services based on data transfer. Sky Link is a member of The CDMA Development Group (CDG) and Infocommunications Union (ICO). For further information on the company, please visit: www.skylink.ru.
Anton Tarasov,
Head of Department of development in Remote and post-banking services,
JSCB Svyaz-Bank

Company profile: Sviaz-Bank, launched in 1991, provides a wide range of high-quality banking services. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation ranks Sviaz-Bank among top 30 major Russian credit institutions.

The bank's network comprises 49 regional branches to enable successful cooperation with clients which also have extensive business networks.

Sviaz-Bank has traditionally been linked to the sector of telecommunications, as it was set up under the initiative of the Ministry for Communications of the USSR. At present the bank is developing as a universal interregional credit institution providing services that meet international standards. Sviaz-Bank sees its traditional participation in the telecommunications sector, one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy, as a positive.

Sviaz-Bank`s set of banking products for individual clients is being regularly updated. Thanks to its partnership with the Russian Post federal state unitary enterprise clients can access banking services not just at the bank's offices but also at post offices across Russia.

As a member of the InfoCommunication Union, Sviaz-Bank’s activities include creation of the Universal Payment Platform (UPP). Bank’s participation in creation UPP consists in realization of projects: Mobile payments and Interactive payment system MegaPay, which play important role in development of mobile payments in Russia.
Alexander Sobolev,
Head of the Paycash payment system department,
JSCB Tavrichesky
Susanna Uzunyan,
Deputy Chairman of the Board,
Unistream Bank

 Company profile: The international Money Transfers System Unistream has been created in 2001.
In 2006, the International Money Transfers System Unistream has been allocated into an independent Unistream Bank whose primary activity is to make out money transfers and a number of additional services under its own brand. In November, 2006 it became the first investment project in a segment of remittances, providing inflow up to 20 million US dollars, having made the foreign company British company Aurora Russia Ltd co-investor of the business.

Wide access of clients to Unistream system is provided by its own Unistream Bank’s network, consisting of 280 service point locations and also 70 000 service points in 90 countries all over the world.

Today the system is one of most dynamically developing systems in Russia and according to the official data Unistream takes 28 % of the remittances market in Russia – the CIS and has the leading positions in some CIS countries.
Denis Zyryanov,
Head of m-commerce and payments department,
VimpelCom Group

Company profile: The VimpelCom Group consists of telecommunications operators providing voice and data services through a range of wireless, fixed and broadband technologies. The Group includes companies operating in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Armenia. The VimpelCom Group has licenses to operate in territories with a total population of about 340 million. The Group companies provide services under the "Beeline" brand. VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"). VimpelCom's ADSs are listed on the NYSE under the symbol "VIP".