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U.S. Company Appoints
SABIT Participant as Russia Representative
International Freight Transport,
a New Jersey company that participated
in the SABIT grant program in
2003, appointed Anna Rakhmanova,
the intern they trained under
the auspices of the SABIT program,
as their representative in Moscow.
She started her new position in
February of this year.
Northern Technologies
International Corporation Elects
SABIT Alumna to Board of Directors
Tatyana Yakubovskaya, a SABIT
grant program participant from
1993, was elected to Board of
Directors of Northern Technologies
International Corporation (OH).
Her duties will include quarterly
meetings in the United States
to discuss new products and technologies,
intellectual property rights and
business development, and visits
to the International Finance Corporation
and American Stock Exchange. Ms.
Yakubovskaya is the Managing Partner
of NTIC’s Russian Joint
Venture Partner in Moscow, “Mostnic”.
Their last fiscal year, ending
in August 2003, saw $420,000 in
revenue generated through their
Moscow office.
Wisconsin Company Awarded
Boeing Contract as Direct Result
of SABIT Participation
Astronautics Corporation of America
(WI) was recently awarded a contract
to supply Boeing’s 777 airliners
with electronic flight bay displays.
Through a Russian-American joint
venture between Astronautics and
“Electroavtomatika”
in St. Petersburg, established
with Russian SABIT alumni who
trained in the United States under
SABIT at Astronautics, a major
part of the software and design
for this project was completed.
Boeing has contracted for 300
of these systems, worth $15 million
dollars, which will be installed
in airplanes exported to KLM Airlines.
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