Irina Alabina is an award winning Marketing and Strategy C level professional with more than 15 years of experience in both corporate and agency environments. She led marketing and business development departments in large retail, finance, IT companies and retail design agencies (FITCH, X5 Retail Group, MTS, QIWI).

Was awarded “The Best launch” for creating strategy and launching a brand for a fintech startup (QIWI), which becomes a NASDAQ listing company with the capitalization $1,05B (Qiwi plc). Irins was Head of Russia and CIS countries markets at FITCH (London) and the Vice President of the communication agency “Emerging Communications”.

Currently she works with venture funds, looking for the projects to invest to and with startups helping them to shape their strategies.

Expert has studied at Ulyanovsk State Technical University.