Andrei Bogolubov is a corporate communications counselor to major multinational, regional, emerging growth and start-up companies in a broad range of industries around the world. He has launched three firms, was one of the first Western practitioners of advertising and PR in post-Soviet Russia, and has advised clients on financial and business development. Previously, Andrei was: Managing Director, Global Financial Communications, for Burson-Marsteller, leading the agency’s financial communications team in New York and around the world; Senior Vice President & Chief Communications Officer of AOL Europe; Senior Vice President of Robinson Lerer & Montgomery; and press secretary at the US Department of the Interior. Andrei is a partner in SoundImage NY, an audio post production and creative music studio and earlier founded AB IMAGE International, a leading Moscow-based strategic communications agency. Earlier, as President of Bozell Worldwide’s Russian operations, he built one of Moscow’s most respected advertising and public relations agencies.