Official Partner
Official Partners
PJSC “MegaFon”

Official Partner

MegaFon is a pan-Russian provider of digital opportunities, a five-time winner of the Ookla Awards for the fastest mobile Internet in Russia. MegaFon offers mobile and fixed-line communication services, mobile and broadband Internet access, as well as high-tech solutions for subscribers, state-owned companies and businesses of varying scale.

Bringing together all IT and telecommunication business lines, MegaFon creates highly popular digital services based on cloud computing, the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, as well as solutions for reliable and secure telecommunication and cybersecurity. The company’s portfolio includes over 75 products and services, many of which are based on Russian software, thereby ensuring stable operation under any conditions.

In Russia, 74.4 million subscribers use the company's services.

Khachatur Pombukhchan

CEO of MegaFon

Khachatur Pombukhchan

CEO of MegaFon

From 2008 till 2018, Khachatur Pombukhchan had been Chief Financial Officer of Magnit PJSC, and from February till June 2018, he had been its Chief Executive Officer. From 2018 till 2019, he had been member of the Board of Directors of City Supermarket LLC (“Azbuka Vkusa” chain). Since February 2020, he has been member of the Board of Directors of DTS Retail Company. Also holds the position of Commercial Director of the Retail Directorate of USM Telecom LLC. Since January 2021 — the Executive Director and member of the Management Board of MegaFon, since July 2021 Mr. Pombukhchan has been CEO of MegaFon.

In 1996, Mr. Pombukhchan graduated from the Kuban State University with major in Applied Mathematics and, in 2000, from the All-Russian Distance Institute of Finance and Economics.

Tashir Group

Official Partner

Tashir is Russia’s leading group of industrial and construction companies engaged in diverse activities across various sectors. Tashir Group brings together about 200 companies.

Since its establishment in 1999, the group has consistently increased its share of Russia’s construction and development market for over two decades, while at the same time successfully expanding into other industries: finance, energy, manufacturing, retail, restaurant business, entertainment and others.

Samvel Karapetya

President of Tashir Group.

Samvel Karapetya

President of Tashir Group.

Samvel Sarkisovich Karapetyan is a businessman, president and founder of Tashir Group. Karapetyan was born in Tashir, Armenia, on August 18, 1965. In 1986, he graduated from the engineering department of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. Samvel Karapetyan has a doctoral degree in economics.

Karapetyan embarked on a business career in 1997 as the head of Kalugaglavsnab. In 1998, he built his first few shopping centers. In 1999, he founded Tashir Group.

In just 24 years under his leadership, Tashir became a major diverse nationwide group of industrial and construction companies, currently bringing together over 200 companies, with assets in manufacturing, finance, construction, energy, telecom, utilities, fuel, medicine and other industries. Guided by Samvel Karapetyan and following the long-term strategy of consistent development, Tashir Group is a leader today in a number of sectors in the Russian economy.