After graduating from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Igor Stolyarov embarked on a career with the Coca-Cola Company, before becoming commercial director of Duracell (now part of the Gillette Group) in 1995. In 2000 he became Gillette’s international territorial director for the CIS and Baltic states, and in 2004 he oversaw the company’s projects in Melbourne.

From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Stolyarov was sales and services vice-president, and business development vice-president for Russia’s largest mobile communication operator (MTS). In 2005 he was recognised by the National Managers Association as the country’s top Commercial Director, and in 2007 was given a special Russian Federal Government award for his role in founding the RosNanoTech State Corporation. Igor Stolyarov was born in 1969.