Team

Alexei Peterkin, Acting CEO, CTO & Director. Alexei Peterkin was V.P., CTO and co-founder of A.Partners - the leading Russian Internet Strategy and Venture Management Company,  President of Novalumen, a well known A.Partners technology subsidiary, and CTO of BeeOnLine for the first year of its operations. He was responsible for managing large (up to 100 people at peak periods) teams of software engineers who developed and managed A.Partners largest projects in the mobile sector including www.beeonline.ru (one of the largest value adding services providers in Russia), MTS Extra (an advanced external service provider interface for the largest cellular operator in Russia), MI Interactive, an independent content and brand action mobile content provider. He was a member of the Board of the leading Internet Incubator in Russia where he made strategic technical decisions for A.Partner’s incubated companies. His experience includes Accenture (formally Andersen Consulting) in the U.K., Finland and Russia. He participated in and managed a number of large software projects in the telecommunication industry, mainly with Nokia and was a senior technical account manager with Siebel Systems, the number one CRM vendor recently acquired by Oracle. He recently was with McKinsey and Company in Moscow working with clients in the financial industry. Alexei has a MS in Computer Science from Moscow State University. He also worked for the Russian Privatization Program for two years developing financial telecommunication networks.  He brings to the MIM team a deep understanding in information technologies and information-centric business architecture.

Thomas De Shazo, Business Development & Director. Mr. DeShazo founded The Technology Development Company Ltd. in 1999 and continues as its President. (www.ttdc.net).  In 1997, he co-founded and became Vice Chairman of Ecolo Holdings Limited and led Ecolo’s acquisition of the controlling interest in Nations Energy Limited of Canada that owned and operateed oil fields in Eastern Europe and the United States (www.nationsenergyltd.com).  Nations Energy sold its Kazachstan production assets to the Chinese for $1.9 billion in December 2006.  He was co-founder and Director of Independent Energy Company, a company that designed, manufactured and installs small scale power turbine electric generating systems.   He founded in 1995 and was through December 2005 the Managing Director of EurEastCo Limited, a company engaged in real estate development with tenants such as Merrill Lynch, EBRD, The World Bank, Bank of Tokyo and others.  From 1996 through 2005 he was General Director of HUB Limited which owned and operated one of the world’s most successful Hugo Boss retail mono stores and also operated Jacadi branded retail stores in Moscow, Russia. He was co-founder of MI Interactive, a value added services provider to mobile users and operators in Russia, and was a founder and Director of Energy H2, a hydrogen economy company that develops and manufactures hydrogen extraction, production and related devices. Mr. De Shazo has over 14 years of operating experience in Russia and CIS countries, including structuring of transactions, start-ups and general management for on and off-shoe companies.  He developed several radioisotope related businesses, including the contract production and export of stable and unstable medical and commercial radioisotopes (Dupont Merck, GE, Syncor) from the former Soviet Union and Russia to the United States. Mr. DeShazo attended Boise State University and Harvard College.

Tony Seiniger, Director of Media and Studio Relations.  Tony Seiniger has been a major force in entertainment marketing and advertising for over thirty years.  After attending the Rhode Island School of Design, Mr. Seiniger joined Columbia Pictures, first working for its television commercial division. It wasn’t long before he was producing TV spots and trailers for Columbia’s feature films.  He opened his first ad agency in New York in 1968 and his work for Columbia quickly led to relationships with other major studios that were then headquartered in New York; Paramount, United Artists, MGM, and 20th Century-Fox.  In 1970, Mr. Seiniger was offered the opportunity to create and manage an in-house advertising agency for MGM in California.  He ran MGM’s in-house advertising operation, which included every MGM feature film release, as well as extensive interior design development for the company’s new hotel/resort ventures in Las Vegas and Reno.  Seiniger left MGM in 1973 to open his own agency in Los Angeles. The following thirty-two years saw Seiniger Advertising grow to become the industry leader, creating advertising campaigns for over 2500 major films.  In 1998, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hollywood Reporter, one of the industry’s two daily trade papers.  For over 30 yaers Mr. Seiniger creating some of the most memorable images in movie marketing; Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Superman, Moonstruck and Driving Miss Daisy, just to list a few.  Seiniger’s lengthy tenure, experience and reputation in the film business have produced lasting relationships with senior management at all the major film studios, as well as with the industry’s prominent producers, directors and stars.  Seiniger’s personal contacts within the industry will facilitate the growth of Mobile Interactive Media’s partner relationships with studios and filmmakers.

Alexey Prigozhin, Director, UK   Alexey was CEO and co-founder of A.Partners - the leading Russian Internet Strategy and Venture Management Company, which held over 10 Internet ventures under its management including: one of the largest value adding mobile services providers in Russia – www.beeonline.ru; the largest Russian interactive advertising and web development agency www.defa.ru, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in Russia www.stavka.ru, (www.pokupki.rambler.ru – similar to (www.froogle.com), and the largest Russian social network of sport enthusiasts with e-commerce capability www.mamboo.ru. He was a Board and Admission Committee member for the first and leading Internet-Incubator in Russia and Advisory Board member for several Russian Internet companies. He has more than four years with Accenture (formally Andersen Consulting) working in U.K., U.S. and Russia, where he participated in large projects in the financial services, including the London Stock Exchange, J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse First Boston, as well as in strategy development projects for local and multinational telecommunication companies in Russia. In his last year at Accenture, Alexei was actively involved in Internet strategy development projects. Prior to joining Accenture Alexei worked as a consultant within Moscow State University Business School focusing on Russian organizational culture and strategies for emerging informational economies. He has a MS in Economics from Moscow State University. He also worked at Nokia U.K. in London.

Advisors

John Huhs, Attorney is a Managing Partner of Dewey LeBoeuf LLP, an international law firm of 1,300+ attorneys with offices throughout the United States, Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia and South Africa. Mr. Huhs established the firms practice in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe where in Moscow, Russia he came to know the founders of MIM.  Mr. Huhs has devoted his professional career to the international practice of law, and has over 35 years of personal experience in structuring, negotiating, concluding, and implementing hundreds of cross-border transactions of practically every variety.  He is considered the dean of the foreign legal community in Moscow, having served there continuously longer than any other foreign attorney. 

Mr. Huhs is one of the leading authorities on the international practice of law and writes and speaks extensively on the subject.

He served in the White House in the National Security and International Affairs area in 1974–75. He is fluent in Russian and has a working knowledge of French. Mr. Huhs is a Trustee of Stanford University and is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Stanford Business School and is admitted to practice Law in New York and District of Columbia and is a Member, Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, 1996–98, 2004–present (deweylebouef.com/john_huhs)

George Lee has been a technology industry entrepreneur, executive, and manager for three decades. He was formerly with Cap Gemini America global consultants and Lee-Horwath Associates, a silicon-based industry consultancy, but Mr. Lee is perhaps best known in recent years as the director of SEMI's late nineties Global 300-mm Initiative, a position in which he interacted with key 300-mm wafer transition groups.  Mr. Lee continues to be cited as an authority on 300-mm transition issues. Mr. Lee is CEO of Glimmerglass and a graduate of Stanford University Business School and holds a PhD in Optical Electronics and has a long and successful history with entrepreneurial startups, executive and technical publishing of leading semiconductor industry media, semiconductor production management, equipment manufacturing, market development, global 300-mm and MEMS activities, and a wide range of technology implementation. Mr. Lee came to know the founders of MIM in 1996 through his work in Russia representing SEMITECH. (www.glimmerglass.com)

Ambassador Robert Gelbard is currently a Director of L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (www.l1id.com) which is the leading global provider to governments and industry of technology, products, systems and solutions that protect and secure personal identities and assets in over 140 countries.   Mr. Gelbard formerly served on the Viisage Board of Directors and is Chairman of Washington Global Partners, LLC, a consulting company. He has had a distinguished diplomatic career as President Clinton's Special Representative for the Balkans from 1997-1999, Ambassador to Indonesia from 1999-2001, Ambassador to Bolivia from 1988-1991, and Assistant Secretary of State from 1993-1997. Further accomplishments include serving as the U.S. Government's representative to the Paris Club and as President George H.W. Bush's personal representative to the 1992 San Antonio Summit. Ambassador Gelbard has devoted his expertise in economics, law and diplomacy to developing and implementing numerous post-conflict strategies in Central Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Southeast Asia, supporting South America's efforts to return to democratic governance and initiate market-oriented economic policies, U.S. policy to support democratic consolidation in Spain and Portugal, and U.S. policy towards Southern Africa to affect fundamental societal change. In 2002, Ambassador Gelbard received the Distinguished Service Award, the State Department's highest commendation, which was conferred by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Ambassador Gelbard is also the recipient of numerous other commendations from the U.S. and foreign governments.  

Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA. Mario Rosati is an Attorney with (www.wsgr.com).   Mr. Rosati has been with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati since 1971 and specializes in corporate law, especially as it relates to technology companies. He is a member of the firm's Executive Management Committee, as well as the managing partner of WS Investments, an investment partnership composed of the partners and associates of the firm. WS Investments has invested in a number of emerging corporations over the years. Since 1995, Mario has been an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where he teaches new venture finance. Mr. Rosati has participated in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Task Force to the office of the President Elect, Ronald Reagan (https://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/DBIndex.aspx?SectionName=attorneys/BIOS/115.htm)