OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2012. SME Bank (Vnesheconombank Group) acted as a strategic partner of “Developing Entrepreneurial Companies” organized by the Center for Entrepreneurship, reported the press-centre of SME Bank.

The objective of the conference was to analyze leading Russian and international practices of promoting entrepreneurship and to combine efforts in this area.

Viсtor Sedov, President of the US-Russia Center for Entrepreneurship and Sergey Krjukov, SME Bank’s CEO addressed the conference. Jonathan Ortmans, President, Global Entrepreneurship Week (USA) held a presentation on leading international practices of SME development.

Natalya Larionova, Director of SME Department, Ministry of Economic Development, Oscar Hartmann, General Director, KupiVIP.ru and Yuri Rubin, President, National Association of Entrepreneurial Training took part in the discussion.