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- This new build of Chrome is seriously screwed-up. False "insecure website" alerts and new tabs that takes ages to load. Please refresh soon!May 17, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Krasnodar needs a "хактира" (квартира + hacker space).. an apartment building filled 100% w. "creatives" and a coffee bar on the 1st floor.May 16, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Germany should quit the euro... http://t.co/8oNICD0r ...how's that for a "Black Swan" event in 2012?
- Remember last year when a high-level Russian politician was in Washington (i.e. Alexey "Loose Lips" Kudrin). DAM should be much more carefulMay 16, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @dave204 Thanks for link.... Yep, I tweeted it back last November. @Pinterest is, in fact, the next billion dollar web startup.
- @PowerVertical writes, "Russia's 'Deep State' Crisis" http://t.co/22RCorGk ...(i.e. why the siloviki will ultimately be sacrificed by Putin)
- @Lucian_Kim writes some of the most insightful Putin analysis out there amongst the Western press corp. Read his latest http://t.co/8nkAZ5JO
- What's up with Chrome (Version 19.0.1084.46) constantly alerting me to "insecure content" on @Twitter and Facebook. Is this a known bug?May 16, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- A wasted opportunity (i.e. Putin's 1st foreign visit is to Belarus)? Where would you have advised Putin to visit first? Perhaps Germany? No?May 16, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- A Russian Facebook Bet Pays Off Big http://t.co/XkIMwGnT
- Congrats to the BBC... for being screen agnostic re: 2012 Summer Olympics. Perhaps, it'll nudge @IOCMedia forward too? http://t.co/39hGawtY
- Beyond attention... is something called sentiment, which might actually be what we used to call content. Sentiment aggregation is new media.May 15, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Please tell me why it's relevant that news re: the new Sverdlovsk Governor mentions he studied at Yale. Is that bad? http://t.co/SrJEXqLm
- 21st whip-its (remember: nitrous oxide canisters?) A Harvard professor launches, "Inhalable Alcohol" shots/puffs... http://t.co/hZBztMw4
- Can we please institute a moratorium on the default voiceover on animated videos for web startups being that of a perky Demi Moore clone?!!?May 15, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @Alexey__Kovalev @ioffeinmoscow @KirillSchitov Why not set-up "protest-kitchens" to feed Moscow's less fortunate instead of protest camps?
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- SummaryGlobal Citizen, Proud American, Native Bostonian, Entrepreneur, Blogger, Mentor, Russia Watcher, Lateral Thinker, Tech Geek, Competitive Athlete, Optimist.Specialties: Innovation, Digital Marketing, Branding Strategy, Corporate Communications, Internet Start-upsExperience
- 2012 - PresentCo-Founder / Ruviera & PartnersCurrently in stealth mode. Stay tuned for the launch of our mobile app on June 1st, 2012...
- 2009 - PresentFounder & Board Member / Barcamp KrasnodarDuring the 2009 Thanksgiving holiday break, I decided that Krasnodar should have its own barcamp. So I sent a tweet asking if anyone wanted to help me organize the event. Within 40 minutes I had 6 responses and, as it turns out, the core of the organizing committee. On Saturday, February 20th, 2010, after 12+ weeks of planning (everyone loved the weekly meetings at Mr. Drunke Bar), we held Krasnodar Krai's first ever barcamp at Kuban State University. Over 150 of Russia's finest geeks descended from all over the country to join the Kuban geeks for a weekend of camaraderie, learning, and fun. I am most proud of the fact that Barcamp Krasnodar has become a focal point for the geek, developer, designer, and technologist community here in southern Russia. I emphasize the word community, which is so important when trying to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem, as we hope to do here in Krasnodar. We will be holding our third barcamp in October of 2011 and we invite all of you to join us. For more information, or just to say привет (hello) to a Russian geek- visit us at: http://barcampkrasnodar.ru http://facebook.com/barcamp.krasnodar
- 2010 - 2012Angel Investor & Start-up Mentor / Runet LabsRunet Labs was an internet incubator and early-stage angel fund that provided capital and mentoring to a small portfolio of Krasnodar-based Runet startups and entrepreneurs.
- 2007 - 2010Managing Partner / Lambina Hills Development CompanyIn early 2007... nearly 20 years after perestroika, Russia's consumer culture more closely resembled that of southern California than it did "babushkas, Brezhnev, and blinchiki." Thus, I wasn't so surprised when some Russian friends and a former client from Krasnodar approached me and asked if I would lead a new project to design and develop a private country club and gated community just outside the city. In fact, I was delighted. Krasnodar had become a second home to me (after Boston) and the prospect of moving back with my family to live and work was very appealing. So, I began the work of scouting for a suitable property to build the project. After almost a year and much frustration (land was really expensive), we found and purchased a drop-dead beautiful piece of property (5,000 acres) located just 25K southwest of the city in some rolling hills with a beautiful lake. The project then shifted to designing a world-class master plan and a brand positioning strategy. We hired the SWA Group out of Laguna Beach, CA to do a master plan and Cal Olson as our golf architect. After a number of research trips to Dubai, southern France, and Orange County, CA we had the concepts and ideas for the design of Lambina Hills. I also initiated talks with Troon Golf, the leader in golf course management and Global Golf Development, Inc., out of Moscow, as a construction firm (they built Agalarov's project). By late 2009, we were ready to break ground and begin the next phase of development but..... ...the global economic crisis had hit Russia hard and investment capital completely dried up. The project remains attractive and viable but it may still be another 3 years before it begins moving froward again. While I may not now be actively involved, I am still hopeful that the project will eventually get built and that I can play golf there with my friends there in 10 years time.
- 2004 - 2007Entrepreneur / Zen Athletica Yoga StudioLike most graduates from Babson's top ranked entrepreneurial MBA program, it was only natural that at some point I'd want to try my hand at a start-up. That opportunity came to me in mid-2004 when I learned that some friends of mine were selling their hot yoga studio in Boston. I felt like Victor Kiam, "I like my yoga class so much, I bought the studio." Nonetheless, I also kept my "day job" at Intronics (see below). So, in September of 2004, I bought the studio and quickly rebranded it as Zen Athletica (formerly YogaDuzit) and completely overhauled all the back-office systems and marketing strategy. I even signed-up for "TheFacebook.com" (I had to use my babson.edu email) and started targeting Boston University students. Over the next two and a half years I took on an equity partner, completely renovated the studio, hired all new instructors and staff, and fully digitized the business. The result- we doubled revenues. At its height, Zen Athletica was one of Boston's leading "Hot Yoga" studios in terms of size and reputation. The studio was fortuitously located on Commonwealth Avenue right next to Boston University's student center. Our instructors taught a variety of Hot Hatha (the students' favorite) and Power Vinyasa (the instructors' favorite) classes. However, I eventually came to the conclusion that the yoga industry was not well suited to either a roll-up or growth strategy. Specifically, the intensely personal relationship between each instructor and his/her yoga students is not scalable. Until Craig Venter figures out a way to clone Baron Baptiste, we won't see a yoga IPO any time soon. Thus, we decided to sell. Fortunately, our timing was good and we were able to find a buyer who was excited to both use the studio for his children's gym and also to keep the yoga classes going. Our investors made a great return on their capital, our instructors got to keep their jobs, and our students continued sweating their way along the path to enlightenment.
- 2001 - 2007Chief Operating Officer & Board Member / Intronics, Inc.Founded in 1968 during the go-go years of Boston's famous Rt. 128 technology boom, Intronics has outlived many of the biggest tech names of that era; including, Wang Computer, Digital Electronic Corporation, Sylvania, amongst many others. Nonetheless, when I accepted the job of COO, in 2001, Intronics was gasping for breath and on its last legs. As a component manufacturer of standard and custom DC/DC converters, function modules, isolation amplifiers, and analog signal processors, Intronics was one of the few remaining high tech manufacturers left in Massachusetts. Almost everyone else had relocated their manufacturing to China. So when Arthur Pfaelzer, the company's Founder/President and my step-father, asked me to help stabilize the company I agreed to try. Little did I know at the time but this interesting turn-around opportunity would eventually stretch into 6 hard years. The situation quickly went from bad to worse to catastrophic as the internet bubble burst, the stock markets tanked, and then September 11th happened. I had been at the company for less than 6 months and already, all bets were off. We immediately went into survival mode. In other words, we laid-off half the managers and staff, cut executive salaries, and not too long after sought protection under Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It wasn't pretty but we did survive. Unlike my experiences at the start-ups I have helped launch, my time at Intronics was spent trying to prevent a proud old family company from dying. I worked with our bankers, lawyers, stock holders, and senior executives on a daily basis to continually juggle cash inflows with demands for payment from suppliers and our bankers. Like most of the Rt. 128 tech companies from 1960's, Intronics will sadly never regain its glory. This is a shame because as Andy Groove so eloquently pointed out recently in a Business Week article, America needs manufacturing now, more than ever, in order to stay at the forefront of the global economy.
- 1999 - 2001Financial Controller / MergerNetwork.comWhen people talk about the craziness and excesses of Web 1.0 and the internet I know exactly what they're talking about because I was there in 1999 and 2000 in perhaps the best seat in the house. As the Corporate Controller at Mergernetwork.com, a venture backed B2B start-up, I was in charge of accounting, stock options, health insurance, preparing the financial statements, working with the lawyers to prepare all the investment documentation, among many other tasks. We were located in a gorgeous office park in Alewife Cambridge, MA. No expense was spared. We had free drinks and snacks, a subsidized corporate cafeteria for the building's tenants, a free health club membership, lots of fun/young college interns. The only thing missing was the cliche foosball table. To top it all off, we even had a cadre of smart and very well-compensated former investment bankers running the company. One of whom commuted back and forth to New York city on Mondays and Fridays with Boston Coach picking him up and dropping him off each way. We had everything but..... customers and revenues. As Corporate Controller I knew where all the bodies were buried and could tell you story upon story of epic expense account "artistry." but I won't, because it's not my style and at the time, wasn't out of the ordinary. Nonetheless, it was a valuable experience for me and taught me many lessons on what not to do when launching and building a new start-up.
- 1997 - 1999Strategic Consultant to CEO / ZAO TanderWhile Magnit (ZAO Tander) LON:MGNT may now be Russia's largest chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets (think: Walmart), when I worked there in the mid-1990's it was just another successful start-up from the provinces. What made Magnit (at the time it was called Tander) special was the ownership team of four young entrepreneurs, one of whom, Sergei Galitsky, is now the CEO. My focus for a year and a half was taking all that I had learned during two years of business school at Babson, one of America's top entrepreneurial MBA programs, and teaching it to these four young talented entrepreneurs. Not only did I spend countless hours with the each member of the management team discussing and teaching about Western marketing, finance, operations, logistics, etc. but I also found and hired a number of Western specialists to travel to Krasnodar and help speed Tander/Magnit's development into a world-class retailer of FMCG. First, I hired Coopers & Lybrand team from Moscow to do a GAAP financial audit in 1997. Then, in 1998, I contacted McLean International out of Temple, TX and Warsaw, Poland and arranged for their senior executives to come to Krasnodar and help Tander/Magnit build a modern cross-dock logistics system. During this period we also took numerous trips to Europe and America to meet with investors and private equity funds. I am both thankful of the opportunity and proud of the work we did. This was probably one of the first times when I realized that being a coach/teacher can be just as satisfying as being in the spotlight yourself.
- 1996 - 1997Financial Controller / Soundstone.comLess than 12 months after the Netscape IPO, which heralded the birth of the modern internet; I was recruited out of Babson to join an internet start-up music retailer called Soundstone.com Soundstone was started by a successful serial entrepreneur, Kevin Sheehan, who also founded Hear Music while a graduate student at Harvard Business School in 1990. Hear Music revolutionized the music industry by introducing a "listen-before-you-buy" retail concept store in Berkeley, CA. Hear Music was acquired by Starbucks. When I joined Soundstone in early 1996 the company was pivoting its focus from a 3D virtual reality technology to the online retailing of independent bands and musicians. The company had ambitious plans and a monthly burn-rate to match. My job was to constantly help raise new private equity funds and to communicate with our growing list of angel investors. As Financial Controller and Treasurer I was responsible for managing the demands and concerns of our lawyers, investors, Board of Directors, young employees, and CEO. While the learning curve was steep and the pressure intense, I did come away feeling like I had compressed 3 years of experience into a single year. I will never forget the time I was "left manning the fort" with almost no funds in the company bank account but still having to meet the employee payroll as our CEO was in India at an ashram for 3 weeks. In addition to his iconoclastic approach to business, Kevin Sheehan was also a music industry pioneer who had the bad luck to launch his second company 10 years before the internet, consumers, and technology were ready for his visionary concepts and ideas. Today's online music companies such as Last.fm, Pondora, and Spotify are exactly what Kevin would have built had he the opportunity. While Soundstone ultimately went bust in a spectacular fashion, I came away from the experience with a deep understanding of all the moving parts of a venture-backed high profile internet start-up.
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1994 - 1996Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of BusinessMBA in Entrepreneurship & Finance
Activities: * Ice Hockey Team | 1995 1996 -
1987 - 1991Hamilton CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) in American Studies & Economics
Activities: * Big Brother to a young teenage boy in Utica, NY (3 years)... Coached the Women's Varsity Ice Hockey Team (2 years)... Casstevens Research Scholar (Senior Year)... Member of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity (Director of Charitable Giving)... -
1985 - 1987Phillips Exeter AcademyHigh School
Activities: ** 8 Varsity Letters in 4 Sports... American Football (11th & 12th Grades)... Ice Hockey (10th, 11th, 12th Grades)... Baseball (10th Grade)... Tennis (11th & 12th Grades) -
1981 - 1985Noble & Greenough SchoolHigh School
Activities: ** 2 Varsity Letters... American Football (10th Grade)... Tennis (9th Grade)
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Yesterday @DChernyshenko was with #IPC @Paralympic President Sir Craven discussing #Sochi2014 nation-wide initiatives yfrog.com/hsnu0iej
— Sochi 2014 (@Sochi2014OC) December 13, 2011RT @S_Shipunova: В Сочи сейчас 16 градусов тепла. Впору загорать, а не елки ставить! Счастливые люди…Можно ставить елки и загорать!
— Дмитрий Чернышенко (@ChernyshenkoRu) December 13, 2011Translation: In Sochi today, it’s a warm 16 degrees Celsius. It’s feels more like a day for sunbathing than putting up the Christmas tree. How lucky are the people who live in Sochi who can do both!
The Sochi 2014 Marketing Club has met in Moscow at the TOURBILLON (Swatch Group) boutique in Moscow. The meeting was arranged by the IOC Global Partner and official time-keeper for the Olympic Games since 1932, OMEGA….
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Some recent construction photos from Olymstroy on the figure skating arena. The roof has been installed (just in time for WInter weather) and the project continues on schedule.
This short documentary chronicles work done by SK Most Corporation from May 2009 (the official start of construction) up to November 2011 The construction so far on this critical 32-kilometer stretch of the road from Adler to Krasnaya Polyana includes excavation of five of the twelve tunnels, as well as, completion of 24 road and 22 railway bridges.
RT @Sochi2014OC Another great consturction in action video shot at Olympic SubVillage “Roza Khutor” #Sochi2014
The historic and iconic Riviera Park in central Sochi has just been equipped with free wifi. The Sochi municipal Department of Culture recently announced that internet speeds will begin at 3 megabits per second and should increase over time.
RT @ChernyshenkoRu The race for the 2014 Sochi Olympic coins has begun… RT @Chernyshenko Креативный интерактив от партнера #Сбербанк - Гонка за монетами #Сочи2014 началась! :-)
How time flies!! We’ve reached another magical milestone… 1,000 days until the start of the Paralympic Games. To mark the date, the SOCOG team threw an event to educate the citizens of Sochi that the Paralympics are not about sympathy or limitations but about competition/accomplishment and to remind the citizens that those less able-bodied amongst us are deserving of respect and consideration. Check-out the photos above for a glimpse into a special day.
The Rezidor Hotel Group announces the Sochi Radisson Blu Resort & Congress Hotel. The property featuring 500 rooms is scheduled to open its doors in Q1 2013.
We are delighted to add this hotel to our growing Russian portfolio. The property will enjoy a beachfront location and comprise one of the largest conference centers in Russia - it will be a true landmark
said Kurt Ritter, President & CEO of Rezidor.
Our development will follow the most modern and ecological construction standards. The property will be the first hotel project built within the frame of preparation for the Winter Olympics in 2014. We are glad to start this project together with Rezidor, a highly recognized hospitality company, and are looking forward to a successful cooperation
commented Abbas Aliev, President of Hotel Development CJSC.
Besides 500 modern guest rooms with Radisson Blu signature services such as free high speed internet access, the hotel will offer a comprehensive range of food and beverage; including an all day restaurant, 2 specialty restaurants, 2 bars and a nightclub. The Radisson Blu Resort & Congress Hotel, Sochi will be a year-round destination. The hotel is already under construction - the opening in early 2013 will allow one year of preparation before the Winter Olympics.
Sochi 2014 head Dmitry Chernyshenko:
The real legacy of Sochi 2014 lies in bringing about a deep change within Russian culture. Through our Sochi 2014 volunteer movement, thousands of young and enthusiastic Russians are reintroducing the concept of volunteering back into the Russian society, something that has been absent for far too long…
Only between 5 to 9 percent of Russians are involved in volunteering today, compared to an average of approximately 30 percent in other European countries. Slowly, the attitude towards volunteering is changing again in my country, and this change is driven to a large extent by enthusiastic young people. The volunteering vision of Sochi 2014 was a determining factor in the International Olympic Committee’s decision to award the Olympic Winter Games to our city…
I am certain that Sochi 2014 will live up to its promises. Our ultimate goal is to inspire millions to join the revived volunteer movement across Russia, making a meaningful contribution to society that will leave a lasting legacy for generations to come.
The Architecture Sochi website has an interesting article detailing the construction of a road that connects the Alpinka Service Resort to the finish zone in the Rosa Khutor Resort. All that remains to be done is the installation of the signage and guard railings, as well as, the testing of the power supply systems, video surveillance, fire fighting, and ventilation in the tunnels. The two-lane road stretches some 11 kilometers in length and rises almost one kilometer in height. The road includes two tunnels with a total length of about 600 meters and 10 bridges. The final bridge, which spans more than 160 meters, is amongst the top 10 highest altitude bridges in Europe.
It is expected that at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi there will be more than twice as many interpreters than were at the 2006 Olympics in Turin. On Saturday, SOCOG hosted a conference called, “Sochi 2014: Issues of Translation”, which was attended by over 650 translators, language school instructors, and employees/owners from translation agencies.
Also in attendance was the head of IOC Media Relations, Anthony Edgar; the Chief Interpreter for the London Games, William Weber; a linguistic consultant, Maureen Sweeney; as well as, Andrei Tsybenko, the Director of Oral English Translation for the Department of Language Services Foreign Minister .
Our goal is to communicate at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in one language, and this forum is another step in our journey to reach that goal,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko.
Gerard Dielessen, the General Director of the Netherlands NOC, recently visited Sochi and afterwards put together this short video of his walkthrough of the Coastal Cluster.
He writes,“About 50,000 people work 24 hours a day on the Sochi 2014 project and it’s currently the largest construction site in the world. This winter (in February) the first test events: skiing, biathlon, snowboard and freestyle will be held in the Mountain Cluster.
Sochi will organize in about 2.5 years the most compact Olympic Games ever held. All ice stadiums will be built in a circle within a diameter of not more than two kilometers, including the Olympic village. I visited the coastal cluster in recently (third time in 2011) and saw the enormous progress of the construction. All the stadiums will be ready in time as well as entirely new infrastructure. (183 new properties in all will be built..)
The short video shows the construction of the Coastal Cluster on the Black Sea. Enjoy! And see you in Sochi2014.”Thanks to Sochi2014 for heads-up on Facebook!
Russia’s Meteorological Agency (Росгидромет RosHydroMet) has launched a brandnew website (for now only in Russian) that will serve as the public interface for all the information and services it will provide over the next few years in conjunction with the Winter Games. The website URL is http://pogodasochi.ru/ (pogoda = weather). …and we like their creative slogan, “Always fresh forecasts.”
Now that it’s Christmas season, the SOCOG team has posted on its Facebook page at first look at some of the official Sochi 2014 souvenirs and gifts. The online store is scheduled to be activated in the next few weeks and we expect that the direct URL will be: shop.sochi2014.com We’ll keep you posted as we get more information.
RTT (retweet translation): @ChernyshenkoRU …the European Alps may be without snow in the beginning of December for the first time in 50 years… but the Sochi 2014 Mountain Cluster is covered in whiteness. See Dmitry Chernyshenko’s snapshot of the ski jumping construction site (above).
Bosco Sport outfits Sochi in high style… this Winter 500 volunteers for the test events in the Mountain Cluster will be “kitted out” in Bosco gear. As you might remember from Vancouver… Bosco Sport is the distinctive Russian sporting apparel brand that inspires strong opinions. While some fashion traditionalists may question its “post-modern” Baroque style… there are now legions of devoted Bosco fans throughout the world. Their numbers are sure to grow as the 2014 Winter Games approach. We think that Bosco is one of the first Russian consumer brands that captures that aspect of the Russian “cultural code” that adores opulence. Bosco is bold, bright, and beyond the price range of most. Stay tuned to see if Bosco can make the transition from kitsch to luxury brand. Not unlike the transformation of “brand Russia,” itself. We think both brands have a great shot at success!!
