WHEN /
``50% of Fortune 500 companies will be replaced the next 10 years``
``The best way to predict your future is to create it.``
``Verne Harnish is amazing and any summit he is part of us worth attending! Wish I could be there and I still may be!``
2019.04.04
WHERE /
The Corporate Hotel & Convention Centre
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE/
GROWTH SUMMIT ULAANBAATAR
GROW YOUR ORGANIZATION 10X, 100X, OR MORE!
Why attend:
Learn how to grow your company 10X, 100X, or more to reach $10M, $100M, $1B, & beyond! TED Talk format with condensed and concise presentations with key takeaways.
Expected outcome:
Walk away with deep insight and useful takeaways; tools that can be used on your company to help your company grow; effective & unique networking to meet fellow executives facing similar challenges/opportunities
Who should attend:
CEO’s, business owners, investors, senior executives, business leaders, & senior executives from social sector
SPEAKERS /
12 TED TALK STYLE TALKS + 2 KEYNOTE
Verne Harnish is best-selling author and global top notch keynote speaker Founder of Entrepreneurs Organization with 13,000 members in 58 countries Past Chair of premiere CEO program Birthing of Giants at MIT for 15 years; and also Founder of Gazelles, executive education & coaching company with 210 partners on 6 continents.
Verne Harnish
Founder of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO)
Nirit Harel, speaker on innovation, women’s entrepreneurship, purpose in leadership, and Israeli start-up ecosystem; veteran of the Israeli start-up environment with 20+ years of turnaround, marketing and management experience positioning ventures for growth, public offering and acquisition, including MRV Communications which subsequently reached a valuation of $5B+. Nirit also serves as Vice Chairwoman of YPO Entrepreneurship & Innovation Network with 4,000 founders and investors around the globe. She has been organizing leading innovation events around the world in places such as Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, London, Paris, Toronto, and Lagos last two years.
Nirit Harel
Frequent speaker on innovation and women’s leadership/ entrepreneurship
Armando Torres was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Oyu Tolgoi in May 2017. Since 2016, Armando has been a member of the Oyu Tolgoi Board and served as a Rio Tinto Managing Director – Oyu Tolgoi between September 2016 and May 2017.
Armando Torres
Chief Executive Officer of Oyu Tolgoi
Mr. John Bell was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Khan Bank in April 2016. Mr. Bell joined Khan Bank with more than 22 years of international banking experience, principally in consumer banking, managing distribution channels, marketing, products and service operations. Prior to joining Khan Bank, Mr. Bell held senior positions at Citibank, ABN AMRO, and RBS, across European emerging markets and the USA. He served as Head of Citigold Wealth Management at Citibank (Poland), as well as Head of Retail Banking for the Royal Bank of Scotland in Romania. In addition, Mr. Bell directed business transformation projects for RBS in Romania and India.
John Bell
Chief Executive Officer, Khan Bank
Mr.Amar Hanibal joined XacBank in July 2014 as the President. Prior to joining XacBank, Amar worked for three years as the Managing Director for TenGer Financial Group. Previously, he was the Managing Director, Head of risk management at JSC Kazkommertsbank (KKB), the largest commercial bank in Kazakhstan. Amar joined KKB in 2008 with over 10 years of experience in international banking, specifically in risk management, project finance and leveraged finance. Prior to joining Kazkommertsbank, he had held positions with ABN AMRO Bank in various global offices, including London, Amsterdam, Chicago. As part of ABN AMRO Bank & Structured Debt unit, he worked on several high-profile transaction in the Oil Gas,Power and Telecom sectors in Europe. Amar started his career with ABN AMRO Bank& Group cash management department, before moving to Global Risk Management division. Amar earned a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration from the European University of Brussels, Belgium and received a Master of Business Administration diploma from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.
Amartuvshin Hanibal
President, XacBank LLC
Uuganbayar, Founder and Chief architect of Interactive LLC and has over 23 years of software development, systems integration and project management leadership in large scale projects from corporate entities and government agencies in Mongolia. He has extensive experience in Software Architecture, Digital Transformation Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, BPR, BPM, ERP, CRM, SCM, HRM, e-Government and more.
Uuganbayar Badamsuren
Founder and Chief architect of Interactive LLC
Nick Edwards, grew his investment fund from $1M to $10B in Japan; saw firsthand how companies like SoftBank grew to its size today will speak on topic of how stock market works to scale up your business
Nicholas Edwards
Managing Partner of Nicholas Edwards Investments LLC
Human Resources Executive with over 10 years of experience in organizational development and management. She believes that successful HR solutions for business organizations are built on technology, training and research, and mutual cooperation. Prior to joining Petrovis Group, Odontuya held HR leadership positions in Telecom, Renewable Energy, Civil Aviation and manufacturing industries. Odontuya holds bachelor degree in Law from the NUM and Master of science degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. A Fulbright Scholarship award receiver from 2007. She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), former Board Member of the Mongolia Association of State Alumnae. During the voluntary work at MASA, she successfully led an Awareness Building Project on accessible entrances for people on wheelchairs and a Project on creating workplace database for people with disabilities. The project now continues its activity as a NGO named “Bid Chadna” (We Can). Odontuya also made significant contribution in founding Newcom Leadership Institute and American University inMongolia. She takes pride in having visited all aimags of Mongolia – a rare opportunity presented by her job and her love to travel. Fluent in English and Russan.
Odontuya Demid
Chief HR Officer of Petrovis
Dolgion Erdenebaatar has been the CEO of Bloomberg TV Mongolia, a flagship affiliate network from New-York based Bloomberg Media for the past 7 years. He is the Publisher and Board Chairman of many prestigious international titles including Forbes magazine’s Mongolia edition and Asia Mining magazine. He also serves as the Board Chairman of JCDecaux Mongolia, a joint-venture of JCDecaux Group, a largest outdoor advertising corporation in the world. Currently completing a doctoral thesis on the role of financial institutions in financial crisis, Dolgion holds Master’s in management at Peking University and Security studies at Bradford University, United Kingdom.
Dolgion Erdenebaatar
CEO of Bloomberg TV Mongolia
Bayar is COO at AND Global, a FinTech startup that offers accessible and inclusive financing through techno. AND Global has active fintech operations in Mongolia and the Philippines. Its first product is called LendMN, an AI-powered mobile based micro-lending and e-wallet platform that have successfully issued more than 1 million loans in a year. LendMN has now been offering variety of services, ranging from peer to peer transfer to ticket purchase, to become everyday financial app for its ever-growing customer base.
Bayarsaikhan Volodya
COO of AND Global
Steve Potter has 40 years of management experience in 10 countries on 3 continents (Europe, Middle East, & South-East Asia). Recently, Steve served as Chairman on American Chamber of Commerce in Mongolia (AmCham) and as Executive Director of Wagner Asia Group of companies with over $250 million in revenues and 1,200 employees. Often companies have great strategies but fall short on delivery; Steve will share his tools on overcoming this challenge for executing strategy.
Steve Potter
Managing Director, StarChase Automotive
Mr. Dangaasuren ENKHBAT is the founder of the Karakorum Digital Academy in Ulaanbaatar, that helps Mongolian businesses to develop right skills to thrive in the digital economy. He founded the Academy in 2017 and was most recently the Executive Chairman of ONE Foundation (Open Network for Education). Prior to these social and business entrepreneurships, Enkhbat served as Member of Parliament from 2008 to 2012 co-chairing the Green Party of Mongolia. He also worked for the Government of Mongolia in various positions between 1980 to 1994 such as the Vice Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, Deputy Minister at Ministry for National Development and Director of the National Informatics Center. Enkhbat is renowned as Mongolia’s Internet pioneer connecting Mongolia to the Internet in 1996 when he led DataCom LLC, the first Internet service provider (ISP) in the country, which he established in 1992 and managed to 2007. In addition to being an business entrepreneur who has created 6 technology companies, he engaged in social sector by serving as Chairman of the Mongolian Foundation for Open Society 1996-2001, creating and hosting as an anchor for a well acknowledged TV talk show “Forum” at the Mongolian National Broadcaster 2004-2006, co-establishing and leading as President the New Policy Institute 2006-2008.
Enkhbat holds BA as Systems Engineer from Ural’s State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, PhD from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS, Moscow, Russia.
Besides his mother tongue Enkhbat speaks English and Russian.
Enkhbat holds BA as Systems Engineer from Ural’s State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, PhD from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS, Moscow, Russia.
Besides his mother tongue Enkhbat speaks English and Russian.
Enkhbat Dangaasuren
Founder and CEO Karakorum Digital Academy, Mongolia
Mr. Gantumur Lingov joined MCS Group in 2006 as its Vice-President in charge for Human Resources & Organization Development and served in this role for 8 years. 2006-2013 was the period of rapid growth and expansion of MCS Group’s business and organization – sales revenue grew 14 times and organization grew 5 times in 7 years. HR team of MCS Group under Mr. Gantumur’s leadership successfully supported upscaling of MCS business by implementing new systems and processes, hiring right people, building managerial capabilities and nurturing organizational culture. Mr. Gantumur also served as CEO of MCS Coca-Cola in 2014-2015, and his team was able to nearly double the business value in 2 years. Before joining MCS Group, Mr. Gantumur was the Distributor Operations Multi-Functional Team Leader for Central Asia & Caucasus at Procter & Gamble in 2004-2005, and the Country Manager for Mongolia in 2001- 2004. He has a MBA degree from Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands.
Gantumur Lingov
MCS Holding LLC, Managing director
Founder and Managing Partner of Mongolian Sustainable Development Partners LLC, an investment management company dedicated to impact financing. Chairperson and Founder of Developing Entrepreneurial Mongolia (DEM NBFI), a non-bank financial institution dedicated to providing funding to entrepreneurs, micro and small enterprises in Mongolia. She is a founder and CEO of Bodhi Financial Advisory Services LLC (B.F.A.S LLC). BODHI is the sponsor of the first Accelerator Program for social impact start-up companies, Kite Accelerator Program. Over 20 years experience in finance and banking holding senior positions as a CEO Golomt Financial Group (GFG), an Executive Vice President / Chief Investment Officer for Golomt Bank, a Chairperson of Golomt Securities LLC, and a Director of Mandal Insurance LLC, the First Deputy CEO of the Development Bank of Mongolia (DBM). Her banking experience includes nine years in Risk Management of Deutsche Bank (2000-2009), Tokyo / NY and Deputy Head of International Department of Ardyn Bank (1992-1996). She served on the boards of Mandal Insurance LLC (Oct 2014-2016), Mongolian Stock Exchange (May 2010-2011), Development Bank of Mongolia (Nov 2010- April 2011). Mrs. Bolormaa served as a member of Emerging Market Advisory Council at International Institute of Finance (IIF, 2016). She is a founding member of Women Corporate Directors’ chapter in Mongolia and the President of Women Entrepreneurs Council at Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Skilled in Financial Structuring, Corporate Finance, Credit Risk Management and Investment Banking. Strong business development professional with a track of records in startups and turn-around management.
Bolormaa Luvsandorj
Founder and Managing Partner of Mongolian Sustainable Development Partners LLC
Enkhdelger “Andy” Enkhbold is the director of all prime product sales and rental operations in mining, construction, infrastructure, energy, and agricultural of Wagner Asia Equipment LLC, the official Caterpillar dealer in Mongolia. Wagner Asia Equipment LLC is ranked as the TOP 20 th company of Mongolia, leading in the sales volume amongst the product and service provider companies to a broad range of customers and segments.
Andy has been with the company for 9 years, last 6 of which has been on the current position, helping the company to get through the economic slowdown cycle and efficiently revamping it up during the recent upscale. He is also a professional trainer in the topics ranging from personal development, management, and leadership, to sales execution, asset management, and project management. As an active citizen of the society, with an effort to give back, Andy is also a valued member of Junior Chamber International, NGO, with a track record of serving on the General Legal Counsel and Vice President positions in the local and national levels of the organization.
Andy has been with the company for 9 years, last 6 of which has been on the current position, helping the company to get through the economic slowdown cycle and efficiently revamping it up during the recent upscale. He is also a professional trainer in the topics ranging from personal development, management, and leadership, to sales execution, asset management, and project management. As an active citizen of the society, with an effort to give back, Andy is also a valued member of Junior Chamber International, NGO, with a track record of serving on the General Legal Counsel and Vice President positions in the local and national levels of the organization.
Enkhdelger “Andy” Enkhbold
Wagner Asia Equipment LLC, Sales Director
4+ years of experience in international scale business development, project management, and sales leadership roles in highly regulated and technical aviation and telecom industries. My passion and strength are business development and startup ecosystem/community building. Empowering startup communities in emerging markets is my focus area. I also have a strong understanding of governments, cultures, regulatory bodies, and politics in Mongolia and APAC. Ideree is also a leading comedian and will be responsible for a comedy exercise in the afternoon “How to Be Likable and Not Boring” to ensure all of the attendees are awake and energized.
Ider-Od Bat-Erdene
Co-counder at CallPro LLC, English teacher and Сo-founder at FARO Edu, Comedian
AGENDA /
12 TED TALK STYLE TALKS + 2 KEYNOTE
08:00 Registration & Networking
08:30 Opening Ceremony
08:45 Opening Remarks
Mergen Chuluun, Togtokh Trade
09:00 DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS
Nirit Harel, Impact Manhattan
Disruptive & Sustaining Innovation: Driving Global Trends
Enkhbat Dangaasuren, Datacom
Mongol Business Need New Leaders
09:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Verne Harnish, Gazelles Inc.
SCALING UP Your Organization: Tools to Manage 4 Core Decisions – People, Strategy, Execution & Cash
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 PEOPLE
Odontuya Demid, Petrovis
Building an Effective Workforce
Gantumur Lingov, MCS Holdings
Building Organizational Capability to Support 10X Growth in 10 Years: MCS Case Study
11:45 STRATEGY
Amartuvshin Hanibal, Xac Bank
How to Identify Unmet Needs of Customers and Grow Your Sales
Dolgion Erdenebaatar, Bloomberg TV Mongolia
Focus to Bonus: 7 Year Growth Strategy
Steve Potter, StarChase Automotive
Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage
Khaliunbat Myagmarjav, MongoliD
Preparing Your Company for Exponential World
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 EXECUTION
Armando Torres, Oyu Tolgoi
Managing a Complex Mega Mine Project:Contributing to Mongolia’s Growth and Competitiveness
Enkhdelger Enkhbold, Wagner Asia Equipment
Managing Sales Execution
14:45 Comedy exercise
Ider-Od Bat-Erdene, Stand-up Comedian
14:00 CASH
Bolormaa Luvsandorj, Mongolian Sustainable Development Partners
Raising Capital in a New World of Impact Investing
Nick Edwards, Nicholas Edwards Investments
How Stock Markets Work for Scaling Your Company
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
John Bell, Khan Bank
Transformation of Traditional Business Models
Uuganbayar Badamsuren, Interactive
Business at the Speed of Thought: Redefined
Bayarsaikhan Volodya, LendMN
Idea to $1 Million Profit in 2 Years
17:15 SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Nirit Harel, Impact Manhattan
Triple Bottom Line: Balancing People, Planet & Profit in a Competitive Global Economy
17:45 Closing Remarks
Mergen Chuluun, Togtokh Trade
18:00 Group Photo
speakers, sponsors, and organizing committee leaders
18:15 Networking Drink Reception
all attendees
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