GEORGE LESNOV'S HOMEPAGE

EDUCATION

1994 - 1997
Master's Degree in International Management
(MBA with international concentration),
Graduate School of Business, University of St. Thomas,
St. Paul, MN,USA

1980 - 1985
Bachelor's Degree (Languages), Institute for Foreign Languages, Interpreters' Department, Minsk, Belarus

1966 - 1976
School 130, Novosibirsk, Russia

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

July 1997 - November 1997
Altig International/American Income, Edina, MN, USA; Management Trainee (Life Insurance Business)

July 1996 - June 1997
GRACO, Inc., Industrial Marketing Department, Golden Valley, MN, USA; Management Intern (International Marketing, work with subsidiaries abroad, etc.)

May 1995 - January 1996
3M, International Business Development, St. Paul, MN, USA; Management Intern (International Marketing Management)

June 1993 - July 1994
TTF (Tyumen Task Force): Team of the World Bank experts in oil business conducting a feasibility study for the World Bank 2nd Oil Loan (loans to the Russian oil producing companies); Representative Office Manager, Nizhnevartovsk, Tyumen Region, Russia - Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1986 - 1994
Short-term interpreting, translation and consulting assignments with Western companies in Russia: Millipore, Agema, Alcatel Bell, Seagate Technology, Word Perfect Corporation, Merisel

1986...present
Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering; Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia; Interpreter-Translator

CONSULTING

1994-1995
Land O'Lakes, International Business Development, Arden Hills, MN, USA. Training programs for Russian citizens in agribusiness, small business development and banking (the programs funded by the US Agency for International Development); Interpreter

OTHER

1990-1995
Seven seminars in Western Business Practices with the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Irkutsk --Russia); Interpreter

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Word 7.0; MS Excel, MS Powerpoint

Extensive practical experience in marketing using Internet

PERSONAL

Born September 6, 1958 in Kovel, Ukraine; married, one child; excellent health

Hobbies: Table tennis, pool, snooker, soccer, reading thrillers in English and French


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