Svetlana Simonenko, PhD, is founder and Managing Partner of the Detech Group and a member of the Government Expert Council of the Russian Federation. In 2014 Svetlana was awarded by EY the title "Entrepreneur of the year" in "Consulting services" nomination. Svetlana has extensive experience in human resources management and consulting since 1995 She is co-author of Russian Assessment Center Guidelines (2013) and Russian Personnel Testing Guidelines (2015). She is a member of the taskforce on the development of International Assessment Center Guidelines (6th edition, USA, 2014).
Detech was established in 2004 to introduce international personnel assessment and development practices to Russia and CIS countries and has among its clients Organising Committee for Olympic Games in Sochi-2014 and Russia-2018 Organising Committee for Football World Cup.