The Welcoming Reception and Roundtable
Discussion
with the Russian Mayors’ Delegation
July 12, 2006, 1:00-3:00 pm
Mayor’s
Reception Room at Philadelphia City Hall
Broad and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Speakers include:
Welcoming:
• Mjenzi Traylor, First Deputy Director
of Commerce, City of Philadelphia
• Loree Jones, Secretary of External
Affairs for the Mayors Office, City of Philadelphia
• Peter O’Neill, Executive
Director, Center for Trade Development, Pennsylvania Department
of Community & Economic Development
• Nancy Gilboy, President & CEO,
International Visitors Council of Philadelphia
• George Burrell, President and CEO,
Innovation Philadelphia
• Rebecca Faber, Executive Director,
World Trade Center Delaware
• Val Kogan, President, Mid-Atlantic
- Russia Business Council
Keynote:
• Paul Smith, Deputy Chief of Mission,
U.S. Embassy in Moscow (Retired)
• Peter O’Neill, Executive
Director, Center for Trade Development, Pennsylvania Department
of Community & Economic Development
Speakers:
• Richard Bendis, President and CEO,
True Product ID
• Gary Jastrzab, Director of Strategic
Planning for the City Planning Commission
• Ted Boimov, Former Executive Director,
Russian Office, National Governors' Association
• Chris Cap, Deputy Executive Vice
President, Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs
• John Gallagher, Chairman, United
States Industry Coalition
• Brian Sant Angelo, Export-Import
Bank of the United States
• Yury Makushin, Deputy Head of Representative
office of Vnesheconombank in the USA
• Larissa Ostrovsky, Director &
Country Manager, Russia & the CIS, Wachovia
• Philip de Leon, Deputy Director,
BISNIS, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department
of Commerce
• Benjamin Rifkin, Professor of Russian
and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, Temple University
• Vladimir Kestelman, President,
KVN
• Rebecca Davis, President, Rebecca
Davis Dance Company
Speakers from Russia:
• Sergey Paramonov, Executive Vice-President
of the Twin Cities International Association
• Mayors representing several Russian regions
Closing:
• Val Kogan, President, Mid-Atlantic
- Russia Business Council
