Contacts
Anna Lebsak-Kleimans
Fashion Consulting Group International,
Founder and CEO
anna@fashionconsulting.ru
In 2000 Anna Lebsak-Kleimans has created a team that established a company -Fashion Consulting Group (Russia) which offered education, business consulting and marketing research in fashion for local business
Since 2007 Anna established first international branch for FCG - Fashion Consulting Group International in New York targeted to international business. FCG International is focused on international companies which are interested in entering and succeeding in the Russian market
«FCG International delivers competitive advantage to our clients by investigating the market, profiling key market players, detailing strategies and recommending plans to succeed," says Anna to WWD, May 2007 «To every project we bring our intelligence, insight, and creativity.»
Supported by professors from Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) and the State University HSE (Moscow), Anna initiated the nation's first and most comprehensive educational Center in Fashion Management and Communications, authoring courses in Public Relations, Visual Merchandising, and Fashion Marketing. Today she supervises the Center and builds the bridge between Russian and international system in business education. Therefore Fashion Consulting Group International invites experts from USA and Europe to teach in Moscow and to conduct webinars for Russian students .
Anna is frequently called upon by Russian and international TV, radio and print media to comment on various aspects of fashion business. Prior to founding Fashion Consulting Group Anna taught courses in Sociology at Moscow State University and worked in Advertising and Public Relations. She was an academic advisor for publishing several books on fashion marketing and fashion. She studied at the UTA (USA) and holds a Masters degree in Sociology from Moscow State University.
Anoush Gasparian
Founding Member
Managing Director
anoush@fashionconsulting.ru
In 2000 Anoush Gasparian was pursuing an academic career. She had just defended a Doctorate in Sociology and was teaching Sociological Theory at Moscow State University and Moscow State Univercity of Imnternational Relations. Then a childhood friend Anna Lebsak inspired her to co-author a training program in Visual Merchandising for one of Russia’s premier fashion retailers. Moving from the classroom to the sales floor was a big step, but the change appealed to Anoush’s ambitions and entrepreneurial talents. Combining a penchant for excellence, a strategic mind and an eye for design, she became one of Russia’s top specialists in principles and techniques of fashion merchandising, consumer behavior, client relations and personnel management. What makes Anoush Gasparian stand out is her capacity to communicate at all intellectual levels, the universality of her talents and her ability to express the most complex ideas in a clear and simple way. She makes the most difficult subjects understandable and she is able to turn complicated theories about communications, business, customer service and human behavior into practical use. She is responsible for revamping some of Moscow’s unsightly stores into fashion hubs and, no small feat, putting smiles on the faces of their personnel. To her strong academic foundation and her experience in the business world, she adds an exceptional sense of humor, which captures the attention of the most heterogeneous audience. Her ability to help people discover their own potential and promote self-motivation in her audience keep the program’s 86 students on their toes and clients from Erevan to Ekaterinburg sign up for Anoush’s consulting seminars months in advance. «Never believe anything you’ve done is successful» says Anoush «Challenge it every second, every day.». As Managing Director of Fashion Consulting Group Anoush Gasparian is responsible for administration, operations and financial aspects of the business.
Lenny Milter
Consulting Department
Leading Consultant
Lenny Milter brings to Fashion Consulting Group first hand knowledge in retail and wholesale arenas
based on his 20 years practical experience in fashion industry. With degree in Fashion Merchandising from a Fashion Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, he started his career in retail management with a major department store chain quickly moving thru the ranks to positions of greater responsibility. Later accepting positions on a wholesale side of the business supplying better branded footwear and apparel to large department store chains as well as small independent accounts. After collapse of the Soviet Union, Lenny used his contacts in the region and his expertise in fashion business and began sourcing fashion products directly from factories in Europe and South America to be sold in Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania as well as in United States.
Lenny's latest efforts include consulting services to international companies looking to get an entry and succeed in a lucrative Russian fashion market. Helping clients investigate opportunities, understand markets and compete effectively. Throughout his career, Lenny was always guided by a few simple principals: provide your customers with highest degree of customer service and listen to your customer in order to fulfill their needs.
Maya Kaznacheeva
Marketing Director
Her great experience in development of many russians and overseas projects include famous names as Gap, All Saints, Sweaty Betty etc. Maya Kaznacheeva has an experience of start-up projects. One of her best acievement in fashion industry is a project with a famous desiner Maria Francheska Pepe (London Fashion Week (SS 09), jeans brand G'Idle and conceptual fashion boutique (Farrington, London). Maya Kaznacheeva has PhD degree in economics and also graduated from one of the most famous fashion schools "Istituto Marangoni" with high degree. Her personal interests in live are modern art, photography and design.
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Fashion Consulting Group (Russia)
4 Malyi Gnezdnikovsky pereulok, room 38
Moscow, Russia 125009
Tel.: + 7495 629-0158/629-6985
Fashion Consulting Group International
295 Greenwich Street , Suite 279
New York, New York USA 10007
Tel +1 646 400 2088
