Silicone Chief

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Renova financial and industrial group of companies, Viktor Vekselberg, will head the Skolkovo innovation center on the Russian side - the notorious analogue of Silicon Valley, the need for which was spoken so much by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Surkov.

Both Surkov and President Medvedev himself said before that it would be better to head such a project not by an official, but by a businessman. We decided on this.

It is still unknown who will become the international coordinator of Skolkovo.

Vekselberg is one of the largest Russian entrepreneurs, a billionaire, chairman of the board of directors of the Russian Aluminum company, executive director for the gas business of OJSC Tyumen Oil Company.