VKontakte’s founder Pavel Durov the most promising Northern European leader under the age of 30, Vladimir Funktikov fifth
Ranking of the 30 most promising Northern European leaders under the age of 30 was published on August 21st in Nordic Business Report. The so called “30 under 30” ranking covered basically the whole Northern Europe: Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The 21 jury members that compiled the ranking were gathered from different organization representatives of each nine countries.
Pavel Durov, the founder of the Russian VKontakte social network service, took the first place and Vsevolod Strakh, a Russian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Sotmarket online store became second. There were three people from Estonia who made their way to the ranking. On fifth place is Vladimir Funtikov, the co-founder and CEO of Creative Mobile, whereas the Minister of Education and Research of Estonia Jevgeni Ossinovski holds the eighth position and Kaido Höövelson, a professional sumo wrestler, is number 30 on the ranking.
The essential criteria for evaluating possible candidates were: results achieved, business sense, originality, practicality and impact of their ideas, international outlook and responsibility in their actions. Each jury member organization built up a ranking of names from their own countries, and the final 30 under 30 ranking was a synthesis of these lists. At least one name from each country made it to the final ranking. Russia clearly dominates the ranking with their 6 names. Lithuania is the second country with 5 names on the ranking.
Additional information:
See the whole 30 under 30 ranking and read the whole article at www.nbreport.com after 9:00 am (CET).
Nordic Business Report is an annually published high quality business magazine. The publication is available only in English. The magazine is produced by Nordic Business Forum together with professional journalists. The magazine is published in Finland, Estonia and Russia.
Hans-Peter Siefen
Nordic Business Report, editor in chief
hans-peter.siefen@nbforum.com
+358 50 412 0783
The jury member organizations:
Finland
Finland Chamber of Commerce
Taivas+Helvetti
PwC Finland
Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Finland
Fujitsu Finland
Denmark
Fonden for Entreprenørskab
Sweden
Fujitsu Sweden
Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Sweden
Norway
Oslo Chamber of Commerce
Iceland
Iceland Chamber of Commerce
PwC Iceland
Deloitte Iceland
Russia
Delovoy Peterburg
Institute of External Economic Relations IRVEN
Estonia
Enterprise Estonia, Helsinki
JCI Estonia
Estonian Business Angels Network
Latvia
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
Investment and Development Agency of Latvia
Lithuania
JCI Lithuania
Enterprise Lithuania
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