
Non-state professional association uniting leading Russian marketing companies specializing in providing innovative marketing services for the development of small and medium businesses.
Mission: Consolidate innovative developments, business-ideas, state opportunities and scientific potential to reach the common aim of society members.
Goal: Stable development of Russian economy and civil society on the basis of efficient use of small and medium businesses’s potential.

Knowledgemanagement.ru is a non-govenmental non-profit organization, formed by a group of professionals and business entrepreneurs with background in counseling, marketing, IT, research and library services. The project is supported by Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia and Russian Union of Marketers (SOMAR).
Our goal is to support Russian small and medium-sized enterprises providing them with best knowledge management practice solutions, business applications, methods and technologies that can be used immediately to improve their business processes and procedures.
Vadim Shiryaev

One of the leading experts on Marketing, Business Strategy and Knowledge Management in Russia. President of Russian Union of Marketers (SOMAR) and vice-president of Russian Marketing Services Association (RAMU).
Award-winning entrepreneur, consultant, practitioner and speaker.
Having over 14 years of work experience Vadim led more than 250 projects. He is a juror and expert board member on different professional awards.
Vadim is a leader and facilitator of most admired conferences and events on Business Strategies and Marketing in Russia. He is also the Author of the Flash-Point© knowledge-sharing method.
Ivan Smagin

As a business information specialist at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Ivan is responsible for providing access to a range of international business information resources covering academic research, news and trade sources, market research, company and financial data and country and macroeconomic information for the school faculty, students, staff and campus visitors.
He is also coordinating a global library project Wizdoms Libraries in Russia. He has worked as a research analyst for different Russian companies, governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Arthur is an entrepreneur, co-owner of leading Belarus innovative e-commerce enterprise and software development company specialised on web based business solutions (CRM, ERP, WHM, eCommerce, online collaboration). As project manager and IT-consultant he realised more then 50 different projects.