Maxim Nogotkov is a serial entrepreneur, started his first business when he was 12 years old from scratch. Specialized in personal electronics retail in Russia, he built the largest mobile retail network in the country - Svyaznoy. Since 2007 he started to develop retail banking services - Svyaznoy Bank, jewelry retail chain - Pandora, e-commerce, big data, a civic project for e-democracy. He was awarded as the national winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 contest in Russia by Ernst & Young, named as #13 in the global list of young billionaires (below 35 yo) by Forbes in 2012. Unfortunately, he lost his fortune in 2015 in the Russian economy's turmoil of 2014-2015. In July 2015 he relocated to Silicon Valley to work on new ventures. ✿