Ekaterina Naumova, head and founder of Allterra Group, took part in the evaluation of investment projects as an expert at the Sochi-2019 International Investment Forum.

The session was organized by the “RosCongress Foundation”.

The session was also attended by such respected experts:

Andrey Grychuk. Information about the person: since January 2011, Andrey has been the head of the Volga Regional center of KPMG in Nizhny Novgorod, with about 200 employees, is the head of regional development of KPMG services in Russia.

Pavel Mitrofanov. Information about the person: in 2003, he began his career at Expert RA in the ratings department of insurance companies. In 2006-2007, he worked as a financial analyst at Renaissance-Life IC. Since 2007, Expert RA has worked his way up from Head of ratings of management companies and non-state pension funds to Managing Director for corporate, sovereign and ESG ratings.

Roman Kapinos. Information about the person: Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of JSC “SME Bank”.

The session was moderated by Pavel Stroev. Information about the person: Director of the Center for Regional Economics and Inter-Budgetary Relations at the Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education “Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation”.

Information about Naumova’s biography is here.

The participants evaluated the following projects:

Samara region. The project “Construction of a plant for the production of food ingredients”. These include pectin, inulin and other organic and chemical compounds.

Irkutsk region. The project “Production of diabetic test strips and industrial assembly of Gmate brand glucose meters”.

Primorsky Krai. The project “Reconstruction and modernization of the sports and tourism cluster “Belaya Gora”.

The city of Moscow. The project “Construction and subsequent maintenance of 100 complexes for industrial neutralization of toxic waste”.

Investment projects presented by industry affiliation and carefully pre-selected were demonstrated in the format of pitch presentations. The presentation consisted of a series of short structured speeches. The purpose of the pitch is to effectively convey information about the project, give answers to experts’ questions, get recommendations from experts and attract potential investors.

The selection of investment projects at the session opened or closed the doors to projects for financing from the state budget, by venture capital companies or private investors.