Associate Professor of Business Practice Academic Leader of Silicon Valley, UAE, and Israel Programs School of Management SKOLKOVO Pavel Bilenko worked until 2004 as a design engineer at Kaluga Turbine Works, where he developed control systems for Kamchatka geothermal power plant turbine-generator units. In 2006, he was awarded a scholarship from the President of the Russian Federation to receive training abroad. He worked in the Control Systems Center at the University of Manchester, UK. In 2013, Pavel and his wife Maria opened the Center for Preschool Education in Kaluga, where their five children studied along with hundreds of families and children from the city. Their team was named the best among two hundred similar centres in Russia in 2015. From 2007–2014, Pavel rose from Engineer to Department Head at a machine-building holding HMS Group. In 2014, Pavel Bilenko led the creation of an international company manufacturing pumps and pump-related equipment. From 2014–2016, Bilenko was the CEO of a high-tech machine-building plant. He assembled and supervised a team that manufactured machine-building equipment: pumps and pump units. Bilenko graduated with honours from Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Faculty of Engineering Technology) and the State University of the Ministry of Finance (Faculty of Finance and Credit) and completed the Executive MBA Programme at the School of Management SKOLKOVO. Now he is working as a Head of Industry 4.0 Educational Programmes at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Academic Leader of USA, Israel and UAE programmes. |