Alexey Podryabinnikov

Strategy,
technology and media.

Independent director, strategic adviser, moderator and speaker. I create projects at the intersection of business, technology and the arts.

Alexey Podryabinnikov with a microphone

01 / EXPERIENCE

Experience in leadership.
Attention to what matters.

Over twenty years in technology and B2B: from commercial strategy and major corporate accounts to boards of directors and media ventures of my own.

2017–2026

Rostelecom

Vice President for Corporate Customers.

4,4 → 22 billion RUB

Revenue of the national corporations segment over seven years.

2013–2017

Russian Towers

Commercial strategy, marketing and operator partnerships in telecommunications infrastructure.

2022–2025

Boards of directors

Chairman of the boards of Synterra Media and Inform. Strategy, transactions, integration and oversight.

02 / SPEAKING

Speaking
and moderation

Business, technology and media. Conversations about real decisions, with attention to the participants and their audience.

Alexey Podryabinnikov speaking at an event
Panel discussions, industry events and strategy sessions.

I help participants compare perspectives, clarify disagreements and make the discussion useful to the audience.

SPIEF · Kommersant

Business digitalisation in an age of uncertainty. Session moderator, 16 June.

Programme and recording
SPIEF · RBC

The autonomous economy and unmanned technologies. Co-moderator, 6 June.

Session on RBC
Agriculture Industry Competence Centre

Moderator of the demo-day plenary sessions on 9 April and 8 September. Digital solutions for agriculture.

September demo-day programme
Connected Retail Forum

A special TV PRO session on how corporate films influence brands. Moderator, 17 October.

Forum programme
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03 / PROJECTS

Projects I founded

Platforms and tools that bring together business experience, technology and the arts.

The Business as Art award stage
From the Business as Art award photo archive

AWARD FOUNDER

Business
as Art

The stories of projects that change companies and industries, told through film.

Six seasons: 2019, 2020, 2022–2025

SpektrArt

Founder

Analysis of creative works: how speech, images, sound and their interplay work.

See an example analysis

TV PRO

Founder and General Producer

Documentaries, interviews and conversations about people, business, culture and technology.

Watch TV PRO

PRO•Vision

Forum organiser

A conversation between businesses, creators and producers about corporate film and television. The first forum took place on 8 July 2025 at Noodome.

Co-organisers include Polina Polyanskaya.

Forum channel

AWARD ARCHIVE

Every project has a story.

The projects in this archive were delivered by my team. Almost all films were made by my production company under my editorial direction. Films, descriptions and photographs are preserved here.

04 / HERITAGE

Heritage

Stories from my family. Mathematics, art, education, literature and botany, through works and documents.

Trifon Podryabinnikov · Teapot decoration study · 1932
Andrey PodryabinnikovMy father. Mathematician.

Andrey Valentinovich Podryabinnikov, 1946–2022. His research focuses on modules and permutation groups.

Two published papers
Trifon PodryabinnikovMy great-grandfather. Artist.

Trifon Zakharovich Podryabinnikov. Painting, drawing, porcelain and earthenware decoration.

View the artworks
Biography and full collection
Otto BöhmEducation and enlightenment.

Otto Ludwigovich Böhm. Biography, publications and documents on the history of education.

Biography and publications
Alfred BöhmLiterary scholar. Dostoevsky researcher.

Alfred Ludwigovich Böhm. Close attention to textual detail, the “method of small observations”, books and research.

Books and method
Alfred KolakovskyMy great-grandfather’s cousin. Botanist.

Alfred Alexeyevich Kolakovsky, 1906–1997. Living and fossil plants; the flora of the Caucasus and Abkhazia.

Scientific works

05 / CONTACT

Where shall we begin?

Tell me about your project or event. I will get back to you about how we could work together and the next steps.

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Award archive
Business as Art

42 projects

All projects, films and photographs