Marina has extensive and diverse management experience gained while working in leading international companies, as well as in the creation and development of successful start-ups in the field of publishing and online sales.

To support and train entrepreneurs and company leaders and help them to create a successful business, Marina founded the Startup Navigator.

Prior to founding the Startup Navigator, Marina worked in top management positions in leading international US and European companies. She was managing sales to clients in the public sector of Russia and the CIS in IBM, executed development of the distribution channel, product management and GR in Hewlett Packard, was the head of the server equipment sales division of Oracle and the Market Leader of the Russia/CIS Philips Lighting organization. Marina also had a successful publishing startup. Some of the books can be found in the Library.

Marina has extensive experience in change management, having worked on building sales and marketing structures during the merger of Hewlett Packard and Compaq, the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle and the separation from the parent company and the formation of an independent company Philips Lighting.

Marina also has experience in forming sales structures for complex information systems in Russia, the CIS countries and Mongolia.

Marina's experience also includes the preparation and launch of local production of personal computers for Hewlett Packard, lighting equipment for Philips, as well as the creation of joint innovation projects between foreign companies and Russian organizations.

Marina's experience of independent entrepreneurship includes the creation of a publishing house of business books, including in digital format and printing of reproductions of works of art. Developing these projects, Marina created a business model for the production of printed products for the development and promotion of the corporate brand of clients. Many of the published books became bestsellers.

Marina graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and defended her dissertation there, receiving a PhD in Economics. She also studied business administration and leadership courses at INSEAD – Advanced Management and Executive Development Program; Challenges of Leadership Program, graduated from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and two years of the Fine Arts program at Hertfordshire University.