Afonina Marina

Position: Director of the Department of Food and Processing Industry

Education:

1991 – Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics
Specialty: economics of trade

Experience:

07.1991 – 07.2006  - different positions in commercial organisations, Moscow;

08.2010 – 08.2018 – Deputy Director of the Customer Management Department; Department of the Corporate Business Development; Corporate Business Department; Department of Marketing and Credit Process Management, Department of Corporate Business Methodology, Department of the Large Business of “Rosselkhozbank”, Moscow;

03.09.2018 – till now - Director of the Department of Food and Processing Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture of the RF

Akchurin Rinat

Born in 29th of October 1969 in Baku.

Education:

1986 – Azerbaijan State Institute of Economics;
2004 – Kazan Law Institute of MIA with a specialty of law;
From 1988 to 1990 did military service in Dubna, the Moscow region;
From 1993 to 1995 led the creation group for children;

Work experience:

From October 1995 to January 1997 – an accountant of the small beer company “Zyakhmat”;
From December 1997 – the Ministry of Internal Affairs – the Deputy Head of the Department for Economic and Corruption-Related Crimes in Tatarstan;
In April 2018 – retired.
At present – the head of the Social Organization “Beer Association in Tatarstan”.

Artamonov Sergey

Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Chuvash Region, the Minister of Agriculture  

Education

In 1999 graduated from the Chuvash Agricultural Academy
In 2013 – Russian University of Cooperation


Work experience
1998 – Agronomist of the agricultural artel “Pashyel”, Batyrevsky district, the Chuvash Region;
2000 - Agronomist of the agricultural artel “Pashyel”, Batyrevsky district, the Chuvash Region;
2002 – 2005 – Commercial director, Director General of JSC “Kozlovsky oil plant”;
2005 – 2007 – Supervisor of the trade and supply department of JSC “Bouquet of Chuvashia”;
2007 – 2012 – Director, Financial director of LLC “Vkus”;
2007 – 2009 – Director of LLC “Brigantina” (part-time work);
2012 – 2014 – Head of Administration of Tsivilsky district, the Chuvash Region;
2014 – 2015 – First Deputy of the Chief of Administration - Head of the Department of Internal Policy.

In 2015 – was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture of the Chuvash Republic;
In 2017 - Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Chuvash Region, the Minister of Agriculture  
 

Irina Zimmermann was born on the 14th of April 1972 in Alma-Ata, RSFSR

Education:

1991 - Diploma with honours in fermentation industry  

Work activity:

Brewing plant Alma-Ata 1, Пивной завод Алма-Ата 1, technologist
1993 - 1996 brewing plant "Stuttgarter Hofbräu", Stuttgart, quality department
1997 - 2006, РR
2006 - 2013, brewing plant "Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu", Schwarzwald
Since 2010 - beer sommelier.
Took 3rd place in German beer sommelier competition in 2015.
Took 3rd place in international beer sommelier competition in San-Paulo, Brazil, in 2015.
Irina was the only woman who passed elimination trials (53 participant from 11 countries).

Today Irina bears the name of the best female beer expert in the world.

Also Irina owns a company and earns money by dint of consultations, workshops, beer articles, etc.

Irina has a great experience in beer judging worldwide.