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Aida Rushmanova, Chair of the Board
 Education:
- Stanford Graduate School of Business, executive program, 2006.
- San Francisco State University, management, 2000
- Internship in the British industry, 1998
- Business School, the University of Central Lancashire (UK), management, 1998
- The State Service and Management Academy, honors degree in strategic management, 1998
- BSU, Master degree in law, 1990
Aida Rushmanova has 17 years of experience in law and 16 years experience of running companies. She started her career in 1990 as an attorney in Russia (civil, criminal and arbitration proceedings in courts of all levels and during investigation).
In years 1991-1993 Aida established three companies: law firm Classic,, specializing in corporate, trade and labor laws, trading company Classic Plus and tour operator Classic tour. She was the first to organize international flights from a heavily regulated region in Asian part of Russia, a nearly impossible task for a mere CEO of tour operator company.
In 2000 Aida raised funds and launched Whales legal, specializing in banking law.
In 2002 after Whales legal virtually monopolized the niche of legal services for indirect banking mergers and acquisitions (M&A), Aida launched a consulting company, Whales Group, which works on the same market of banking M&A.
In June 2006 Firm’s Secret Magazine reported that WG captured around 50% of the market of indirect banking M&A in Russia.
In July 2007 Forbes (Russian Edition) named WG the biggest in this market.
Aida’s articles, reviews, interviews & comments on company management, banking M&A and international arbitration are regularly published in Business Week (Russian edition), Expert, Commersant, Vedomosti (Russian business newspaper owned by WSJ and FT), Russia Journal, Company Management, Boss, Banking review etc. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at international banking and economic conferences.
Aida Rushmanova had been the President of the British Alumni Club, an organization founded and funded by the British Embassy and was also a representative of the Association of Independent European Lawyers (AIEL) in Russia until October 2007, when she resigned due to her move to Silicon Valley in the US where she is funding and managing her next startup.
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