Claudia Bauer-Shkatov has a degree in business administration (Dipl.-Kauffrau). She is also a qualified European Executive Secretary. Her professional experience in event- and human resources management, communication- and change management for multinational service companies, system houses and research organisations in Vienna, Moscow and Berlin spans over 20 years. She launched and managed the Moscow subsidiary of an international human resources consultancy.
Claudia Bauer-Shkatov is a co-founder of the European Business Club in Moscow – currently one of the largest and most influential associations representing foreign business communities in the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Shkatov has a degree in engineering (Dipl.-Ingenieur) coupled with a Master in Business Administration of the California State University Hayward. For the last 25 years, he has visited the countries of the former Soviet Union and various German-speaking markets as a business traveller and on private trips. In a number of managerial roles for Russian and international technology companies, he has established an impressive transnational cross-sector network of business contacts and partnerships.

BUSINESSRAINBOW is a business division of the Allbau Software GmbH, a specialist for technology partnerships operating across the CIS member states.

Claudia Bauer-Shkatov, Vladimir Shkatov and their three sons live in Birkenwerder near Berlin. The couple jointly founded the Allbau Software GmbH at the beginning of 2004.

Claudia and Vladimir are both passionate Tango Argentino dancers.