Jury

Maria has a long-term experience in the Russian advertising market. Most of her career she spent at the ADV group: Maria has started at the Havas Media agency, eventually headed the Department of special projects of all media agencies of the Russian representative office of Havas, and then took the position of CEO at Havas Sports & Entertainment. In October 2017, Maria joined streaming service IVI as a Head of the marketing department and then in November 2018 she headed marketing at Pandora. She joined UM team in May 2019 as Deputy CEO, and since 2020 she has been appointed a CEO.