New York, N.Y., September 22, 2014
PROGRAM
EVENT DATE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
VENUE: GRAND HYATT NEW YORK
109 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK,
NY 10017, SALON 1V
08.00am – 09.30am
Registration of participants
09.30am – 10.00am
OPENING CEREMONY
Welcoming remarks from Mikhail Myasnikovich,
Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
Trade, Economic and Investment Prospects for
Cooperation between Belarus and the United States Nikolai Snopkov, Minister of Economy of the Republic
of Belarus
Moderated by:
Drew Guff, Managing Director and Founding Partner of
Siguler Guff & Company, LLC
10.00am – 11.00am
PANEL 1: INVESTMENT
Subjects to be addressed
– Investment climate in Belarus, incentives and priorities
– Success stories
– National investment projects in Belarus
– Investment opportunities for cooperation in priority
sectors of the Belarusian economy
– Developing institutions as a mechanism for financing
national investment projects, prospects for the
Republic of Belarus
– IPOs of Belarusian companies in U.S. and European
stock markets
Speakers:
Mikhail Myasnikovich, Prime Minister of the
Republic of Belarus;
Nikolai Snopkov, Minister of Economy of the Republic
of Belarus;
Sergei Roumas, Chairman of the Board of the
Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus;
Maxim Ermolovich, Deputy Finance Minister of the
Republic of Belarus;
Sergei Kaletchits, Deputy Chairman of the National
Bank of the Republic of Belarus;
Kirill Koroteev, Deputy Director General of Industrial
Park Development Company
Natalia Nikandrova, Director of the National Agency
of Investment and Privatization;
Clyde C. Tuggle, Senior Vice President, Chief Public
Affairs and Communications Officer of the Coca-Cola
Company;
Scott G. Clawson, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Culligan International.
Moderated by:
Drew Guff, Managing Director and Founding Partner of
Siguler Guff & Company, LLC
11.00am – 11.30am
Coffee Break
11.30am – 12.15pm
PANEL 2: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND
SCIENCE
ORGANIZED BY:
– National Agency of Investment and Privatization
– Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus
– Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
– Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the United States
Subjects to be addressed
– Potential of the Belarus High-Tech Park
– Success story
– Opportunities for enhancing Belarusian-American
scientific and technical cooperation
Speakers:
Mikhail Myasnikovich, Prime Minister of the
Republic of Belarus;
Valery Tsepkalо, Director of the Belarus Hi-Tech Park;
Arkadiy Dobkin, CEO and President of EPAM Systems;
Michael Timmeny, the CISCO Company Vice
President, Global Government Affairs;
Glenn Schweitzer, Director, Program for Central
Europe and Eurasia, The National Academies;
Sergey Zhdanok, Professor, Doctor of Physical and
Mathematical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the
Republic of Belarus.
Moderated by:
Drew Guff, Managing Director and Founding Partner
of Siguler Guff & Company, LLC
12.15pm-01.00pm
PANEL 3: TRADE RELATIONS AND BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
Subjects to be addressed
– Benefits of cooperation with the Republic of Belarus
within the Common Economic Space and plans to
create the Eurasian Economic Union of Belarus,
Russia and Kazakhstan
– Belarus - U.S. and Belarus - EU relations
– Activities of Belarus - U.S. Business Council
– The Belarussian Chamber of Commerce and Idustry
and it’s cooperation with foreign Chambers of Commerce
Speakers:
Mikhail Myasnikovich, Prime Minister of the
Republic of Belarus;
Sergei Roumas, Chairman of the Board of the
Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus;
Alexander Guryanov, Deputy Foreign Minister of the
Republic of Belarus;
Vladimir Ulahovich, Deputy Chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce and Industry;
John J. Gallagher, Chairman and CEO, Meridican,
LLC, Founder and Managing Partner, Gallagher, Malloy
& Georges;
David Baron, Chairman, Belarus – U.S. Business Council.
Moderated by:
Tom Thomson, Principal of T. Thomson & Associates, LLC
Remarks by Eric S. Rubin, US Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State
Closing Statement by Mikhail Myasnikovich,
Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
01.00pm – 02.30pm
Working lunch hosted by Prime Minister of the
Republic of Belarus for Forum participants
02.30pm – 05.00pm
Bilateral / multilateral meetings between the Prime
Minister of the Republic of Belarus, other members of
the Belarusian delegation and representatives of U.S.
companies, and public authorities of the United States
Bilateral meetings among the participants
BRIEF INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Mikhail Myasnikovich,
Prime Minister of the
Republic of Belarus
Mikhail Myasnikovich is the Prime Minister of the
Republic of Belarus. Doctor of Economics, Professor.
Author of over 130 publications and 15 monographs
on macroeconomics, the theory and methodology of
innovation development, economic integration and
economic security. Member of the National Academy
of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus. Awarded by
various state and international awards.
Sergei Roumas,
Chairman of the Board
of the Development
Bank of the Republic of
Belarus
Sergei Roumas is the Chairman of the Board of
Joint-Stock Company “Development Bank of the
Republic of Belarus”, responsible for the lending of
government programs and major socially-significant
investment projects, and also provision of credit
facilities to develop national exports. Since 1992 he
has occupied various posts in the financial institutions
of Belarus, including the National Bank of the Republic
of Belarus. Before he assumed office as the Chairman
of the Board of JSC “Development Bank of the
Republic of Belarus”, S. Roumas held a post of Deputy
Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus.
Since 2013 S.Roumas is empowered to represent the
Republic of Belarus in the Council of the Eurasian
Economic Commission (EEC) and Deputy Prime
Minister of the Republic of Belarus on the matters of
the Republic of Belarus activities within the framework
of the Union State, the Customs Union and the
Common Economic Space, the Commonwealth of
Independent States, the Eurasian Economic
Community, as well as the formation of the Eurasian
Economic Union.
Nikolai Snopkov,
Minister of Economy of
the Republic of Belarus
Nikolai Snopkov is the Minister of Economy of the
Republic of Belarus, responsible for regulation and
management in the area of analysis and forecast of
social and economic development, increase of
investments and entrepreneurship, works out the state
policy concerning the management of the state
property and privatization. Since 1996 he has occupied
various senior management positions, including
vice-chairman on the economic problems, market
relations and privatization in the Gorecky Regional
Executive Committee, Head of the Financial department
of the Mogilev Regional Executive Committee, Deputy
Chairman of the Mogilev Regional Executive
Committee, Deputy Head of the President’s of the
Republic of Belarus Administration. At present Nikolai
Snopkov is deputy governor from the Republic of
Belarus of the IBRD, the IFC, the MIGA and the EBRD.
Alexander Guryanov,
Deputy Foreign
Minister of the
Republic of Belarus
Aleksandr Guryanov is Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, responsible for
foreign trade, investment policies, and bilateral
relations with the Americas. He joined diplomatic
service in the early 1990s. His previous posts include
Deputy Director of Credit and Investment Department
of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Director
of Asia, Africa and Middle East Department, and
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Korea.
Aleksandr Guryanov speaks English, French and Polish.
Vladimir Ulahovich,
Deputy Chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce
and Industry
Vladimir Ulakhovich is the Deputy Chairman of the
Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BelCCI),
responsible for foreign economic activity of the BelCCI –
organization of business missions abroad, arrangement
of matchmaking sessions, arrangement and holding of
business councils, economic and investment forums,
seminars, conferences and symposiums in Belarus and
abroad, rendering assistance in establishment of
companies with foreign capital, rendering assistance in
arrangement of export, attraction of foreign investments
etc. Since 1990 he has occupied various advisory and
senior management positions, including Senior Advisor
of the Parliament of Belarus, Head of the CIS and Baltic
State’s Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of
Belarus, Head of the Office of the Chairman of the
Parliament of Belarus, Deputy Director of Interfax News
Agency, Director of the National Investment Club,
Director of Centre for International Studies. Vladimir
Ulakhovich has considerable research experience,
between 2000 and 2010 he was the Director and
participant of several research projects as well as he
was Evaluator for INTAS, EU, Eurasia Foundation,
Parliament of Finland. Vladimir Ulakhovich is author of
more than 60 scientific articles and 4 books, and he is
also Senior Researcher of the Institute of Philosophy of
the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Valery Tsepkalo,
Director of the Belarus
Hi-Tech Park
Dr. Valery TSEPKALO is the Head of Belarus Hi-Tech
Park, one of the largest IT-clusters in CEE with 138
companies and 18 000 software engineers.
Previously, Dr. TSEPKALO has held various positions,
including the Assistant to the President of Belarus in
the area of science and technologies, Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of
Belarus to the United States of America and United
Mexican States, First Deputy Foreign Minister of the
Republic of Belarus and Adviser to the Executive
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
He is a Member of the Strategic Council of the United
Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development and
Governmental expert to the UN Secretary General in the
field of information and communication technologies.
He has published articles in Foreign Affairs, Journal of
Commerce, Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine,
etc. He has a Doctorate in International Law.
Arkadiy Dobkin,
CEO and President of
EPAM Systems
Arkadiy Dobkin is the cofounder, CEO and President of
EPAM Systems. Under his direction, EPAM has grown to
become one of the world’s leading software
development outsourcing services companies.
After earning an MS in Electrical Engineering from the
Belorussian National Technical University, Mr. Dobkin
began his career in Minsk, Belarus, where he worked
for several emerging software development companies.
After immigrating to the United States, he held thought
and technical leadership positions in Colgate-Palmolive
and SAP Labs.
A recipient of numerous awards, in June 2008 Ernst &
Young named Mr. Dobkin winner of The Entrepreneur Of
The Year 2008 award in New Jersey, Information
Technology Consulting category, In 2006, Consulting
Magazine named him to “Top 25 Most Influential
Consultants”. In 2004, along with the CEOs of Wipro
Technologies and CGI Group, Mr. Dobkin was
spotlighted as a key industry influencer in the Foreign
Relations category of CRN’s “Top 25 Executives” issue.
Through EPAM, Mr. Dobkin has been instrumental in
opening the vast talent pool of the former Soviet Union
region and Central and Eastern Europe to the global
business community. He continues to actively promote
this region across the US and Western Europe by
presenting at noted international industry and technology
events, such as Gartner Outsourcing Summits, Forrester’s
GigaWorld IT Forum Europe, Russian Outsourcing &
Software Summits, SAP TechEd, and others.
Kirill Koroteev,
Deputy Director General
of Industrial Park
Development Company
Kirill Koroteev is First Deputy of the General Director of
the Industrial Park Development Company. His work is
to attract investors, to develop the infrastructure and to
manage the designing and building of the Industrial Park
in Belarus. Previously, since 2004 he has occupied
different positions in the Ministry of Economy of the
Republic of Belarus, and since 2009 he had been the
Head of the Investment Department. He was involved in
the process of creation and revising of investment
legislation of the Republic of Belarus. His responsibility
also was to coordinate the state budget expenditures for
the capital construction, to evaluate the investment
projects and financing schemes. Mr Koroteev has law,
economical and state management education.
John J. Gallagher,
Chairman and CEO,
Meridican, LLC, Founder
and Managing Partner,
Gallagher, Malloy &
Georges
John J. Gallagher is a lawyer of 35 years with extensive
experience in business, technology, and trade matters in
Eastern Europe. He has travelled to CIS countries more
than 250 times as a lawyer specializing in nuclear
energy, oil and gas projects, technology and equipment
transfer, and related commercial opportunities. He has
represented the American utility industry in relation to
access to Eastern European technologies, and he has
often met with the leadership of many of these
countries, including Belarus. Mr. Gallagher has devoted
extensive efforts to investment and increasing
commercial business opportunities in those regions. As
Chairman and CEO of Meridican, LLC, he is currently
working to commercialize technologies for use in
Belarus and to develop business mechanisms to allow
for greater export and use of Belarusian technologies in
North America, including, specifically, Minsk Motor Works.
Sergei V. Kalechits,
Deputy Chairman of the
Board of the National
Bank of the Republic of
Belarus
Sergei V. Kalechits started his career with the National
Bank of the Republic of Belarus in 1995 in Research
and Statistics Directorate. In 2010, he was appointed to
the position of the Head of Monetary Policy and
Economic Analysis Directorate. Since 2011, Sergei V.
Kalechits has been Member of the Board of the National
Bank of the Republic of Belarus. Since April 2013, he
holds the position of the Deputy Chairman of the Board
of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus,
responsible for development and implementation of the
monetary policy, economic analysis and forecasting,
balance of payments and banking statistics,
international relations of the National Bank of the
Republic of Belarus.
Maxim Ermolovich,
Deputy Finance Minister
of the Republic of
Belarus
Maxim Ermolovich is the Deputy Minister of Finance of
the Republic of Belarus responsible for the international
cooperation and interaction with international financial
institutions (IMF, World Bank Group), social policy
(including the development of the pension system) and
financing of social sphere (education, healthcare, culture,
mass media, sport), financing of science and venture
financing as well as financing of the public authorities
and national defence. In addition, Mr. Ermolovich is in
charge of the improving of the program-technical
facilities in the Ministry. Since 2002 occupies different
positions in the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of
Belarus. In 2007-2011 – Head of Budgetary Department,
since September 2011 – Deputy Minister of Finance.
Scott G. Clawson,
President and Chief
Executive Officer of
Culligan International
Scott Clawson currently serves as President and Chief
Executive Officer of Culligan International, headquartered
in Chicago, IL. The global leader in clean water treatment,
Culligan provides solutions, equipment and service to
residential, commercial and industrial customers in more
than 90 countries. Clawson took the helm at Culligan in
October 2012. His current initiative is the deployment of a
strategic plan to grow the business by strengthening its
franchise dealer channel, improving its direct sales in
commercial & industrial markets, building the retail
channel, and expanding geographically. Since 1993, Mr.
Clawson worked in various management positions
throughout the United States and Europe.
Glenn Schweitzer,
Director, Program for
Central Europe and
Eurasia, The National
Academies
Glenn Schweitzer is Director of the Office for Central
Europe and Eurasia of the National Academies. He also
serves as a senior adviser for the Center on Science
Diplomacy of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and Chairman of the
International Science and Commercialization Board
established by the government of Kazakhstan and the
World Bank. He is the author of 12 books and dozens of
reports on international science and technology. He
received an M.S. degree from the California Institute of
Technology.
Michael Timmeny, the
CISCO Company Vice
President, Global
Government Affairs
Michael Timmeny oversees Cisco’s global government
affairs operations. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Timmeny
served as a Vice President of Policy of the American
Electronics Association and as a chief of staff to five
members of Congress, including U.S. Senator Patty
Murray, and Representatives Anna Eshoo, Joseph P.
Kennedy II, Charles Schumer and Ted Weiss. Mr.
Timmeny is a graduate of Harpur College at the State
University of New York at Binghamton and has been
with Cisco for 14 years.
Sergey Zhdanok,
Professor, Doctor of
Physical and
Mathematical Sciences,
Honored Scientist of
the Republic of Belarus
Siarhei Zhdanok is the President and CEO of the R & D
Enterprise “Advanced Research and Technologies”, a
leading private company in manufacturing, research and
development, processing, supply and marketing of
nanostructured materials and their dispersions. Since
1983 he has occupied various senior management
positions in Belarusian science, including Director of
A.V.Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, General
Scientific Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences
of Belarus, Academician-Secretary of the Division of
Physical and Engineering Sciences of the National
Academy of Sciences, Member of the Presidium of the
National Academy of Sciences. Siarhei Zhdanok is
Professor and Doctor of Physics and Mathematics,
Academician of the National Academy of Sciences, author
of numerous inventor’s certificates, monographs and
scientific papers. He has participated in many
international scientific projects and programs, chaired
international conferences and workshops. During last 10
years he was the Head of the National Nanomaterials and
Nanotechnology Program, and the National Hydrogen
Energy Program. At present Siarhei Zhdanok is the
Chairman of the Association of Nanoindustry of Belarus.
David Baron,
Chairman, Belarus –
U.S. Business Council
Business Council and a Shareholder in the
International Law Firm of Greenberg Traurig where he
is a member of the firm’s Global Trade & Investment
Practice. For more than 10 years David has worked
with and represented a number of the largest
Belarusian State-owned entities. David regularly
counsels both U.S. and foreign business clients
regarding investment matters and all aspects of
international trade regulations, including economic
sanctions policies. He has represented clients and
client concerns before the International Court of
Justice, the WTO, ICSID Tribunals, international arbitral
tribunals, and U.S. Federal and State Courts, as well as
before various U.S. Federal Agencies including the
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Office of Foreign
Assets Control (OFAC), the Bureau of Industry and
Security (BIS), and the International Trade Commission
(ITC). David is also an adjunct professor at American
University's Washington College of Law where he
teaches advanced seminars in international law and
international dispute resolution.
Natalia Nikandrova,
Director of the National
Agency of Investment
and Privatization
Natallia Nikandrava is Director of the National Agency of
Investment and Privatization (NAIP). She is responsible
for creating an efficient system of attracting foreign
direct investments to the economy of Belarus, including
by improvement of the privatization mechanism.
During her carrier, she worked as auditor and senior
finance manager in various private sector companies,
including transnational corporations. During a period of
six years she was a member of Ernst&Young (EY) team
and held CFO position in Belarus. Before coming to
NAIP, she occupied the position of Vice President in the
Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
overseeing different marketing and investment projects.
She has been a member of Standing Committee of
Foreign Investment Advisory Council under the Council
of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus since 2011 and
was involved in the developing and improving
investment legislation.
Ms. Nikandrava has high education in applied
mathematics and world economics.
Clyde C. Tuggle,
Senior Vice President,
Chief Public Affairs and
Communications Officer of
The Coca-Cola Company
Clyde C. Tuggle is Senior Vice President, Chief Public
Affairs and Communications Officer, The Coca-Cola
Company. In 2003 Mr. Tuggle was elected a Senior
Vice President and named director of Worldwide
Public Affairs and Communications, and named to the
Company's Executive Committee. In 2005, he
became president of the Russia, Ukraine & Belarus
Business Unit. In 2008, Mr. Tuggle was named Senior
Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Productivity. In
2009, he was named Senior Vice President, Global
Public Affairs and Communications, a position
reporting directly to the Chairman, Board of Directors,
and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola
Company.
He holds a bachelor's degree in German Studies and
Economics from Hamilton College and a Master of
Divinity from Yale University. He studied at the
Ludwig-Maximillian Universität in Munich, Germany,
and completed The Executive Program at the
University of Virginia's Darden Business School.
Mr. Tuggle is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of
Agnes Scott College and a trustee of the Georgia
Research Alliance. He serves on the Boards of
Directors of the Center for Addiction and Substance
Abuse, the US Russia Business Council and the World
Affairs Council of Atlanta. He is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Goizueta Business
School Advisory Board and the Yale University
International Advisory Board. In 2013, Mr. Tuggle was
elected a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
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