Irina Rachitskaya is a highly skilled lawyer with vast experience in corporate, intellectual property, and labor law. She has an impressive educational background, having studied international law, civil law, and expert of stock market. Irina has led multiple organizations, such as the Skolkovo Foundation, VEB Innovations, and the Russian venture company. She has also worked as a freelancer and held several legal positions in different institutions, including the Promex Federal State Unitary Enterprise and The Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computing Technologies. Nowadays, she works as an Executive Director for the Research and Innovation Department at Sberbank, focusing on leading, structuring, and optimizing business processes while interacting with state authorities on significant governmental programs such as the digitalization of the Russian economy.