The 4th Russian Venture Forum The 9th Russian Venture Fair October, 8-10, 2008 Saint-Petersburg Russia

The Russian Venture Forum – a meeting point for professional investors, traditionally being conducted in Saint Petersburg. The Forum has shown itself to be one of major annual events aimed to development of business and investment infrastructure of national scale.

The Forum brings together representative and concerned audience of domestic and foreign venture business professionals. Managers and partners of first-rate private equity and venture capital funds, leading top-managers of investment companies and banks, key persons from international corporations, directors and partners of Russian and foreign stock markets – all of them may be listed as the participants of the Forum.

Private equity and venture capital represent a dynamically evolving sector of the Russian private capital market, attracting rapt attention of the global players searching potentially high returns and the government looking for new instruments for diversification of economy.

Program of the Forum includes wide spectrum of different actions which allow the participants to maximize their industry knowledge, to realize an exclusive opportunity to meet new partners and clients, to lay a foundation for future business development. Among the key speakers of previous Forums were the “legends” of world venture entrepreneurship: Harry Fitzgibbons (The Russian Technology Fund), Franklin “Pitch” Johnson (Asset Management Company), Jeff Milanette (Innovative Partners Inc, USA), Maaret Heiskari (Sitra), heads of international corporations as Dan’l Lewin (Microsoft), directors and partners of investment funds Patricia Cloherty (Delta Private Equity Partners), Valery Doronin (Troika Capital Partners), Maxim Shechovtsov (Alliance ROSNO Asset Management), Gennady Margolit (Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange), Sergey Romashov (VTB Asset Management) and many others.

A distinctive feature of the Forum is the Russian Venture Fair – a communicative ground rendering the investors an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the projects and management of Russian innovative technology companies as well as to get into contacts with the most attractive companies.
As regards the companies – the Fair is a unique opportunity not only to present their businesses to potential investors, but also to learn at first hand the main criteria of selection the projects capable to attract attention of wide investors’ circle: from business-angels to international investment funds.