Introducing the Centre

SKOLKOVO Wealth Transformation Centre is an educational and research platform for business families, their family offices, service providers, philanthropic organizations, regulators and academia in Russia and CIS.

Goals and objectives

One of the main goals is to explore the phenomenon of family business in Russia and to develop educational programmes for different generations of business families and family offices managers. For this purpose we run regular surveys of the business community and service providers.

Our Approach

We study international and Russian experience of wealth management and succession, adapt best practices and offer effective solutions for Russia, through the work with the regulator.

Personalities behind the Centre

Ruben Vardanyan

Founding Partner and Vice-Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Chairman of the SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Chairman of the Expert Council of the school’s Wealth Transformation Center. President of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in 2006-2011
- Ruben Vardanyan is an Armenian-Russian impact investor and social entrepreneur. He serves on the advisory boards of the IFC (World Bank Group) and Fundação Dom Cabral business school in Brazil. He is also a board member at Ameriabank (a major Armenian bank), SOLLERS (Russia’s auto major) amongst a host of other companies, NGOs, public and professional organizations. A prominent financier, Ruben owns a stake in a joint venture with the Otto family in a commercial realty management business in Russia. He is known both for his financial projects (Troika Dialog investment house) as well as his deep reaching philanthropic programs, such as the first UWC college in Eastern Europe (Dilijan, Armenia) and the Tatev Revival Project, part of which includes the construction of the world’s longest cableway leading to an ancient monastery. Together with his partners, Ruben has invested about $500M in projects in Armenia, developing a commercial approach that relies on involving blended financing to find solutions to social problems. He has also raised over $500M to finance the first private business school in Russia – a pioneering institution both in terms of scale and in its collaborative nature. In 2015, Ruben co-founded another global project, the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors.
Veronica Misuitina

Head of Wealth Transformation Centre SKOLKOVO
- Former Head of International Tax and Legal Structuring group in Russian practice of a leading international consultancy firm; advised Russian and CIS entrepreneurs on cross-border corporate and private matters including succession planning
- Lectures in various Russian universities