Tatyana Bakalchuk

About speaker

Graduated from Department of Foreign Languages of the Moscow State Regional Social and Humanitarian Institute, specialized in teaching English and German languages.

Being on maternity leave from teaching, Tatyana founded an online store in 2004 from scratch, which is used by 3.5 millions visitors in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia everyday.

In 2018, Tatyana won the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award and the RBC «Entrepreneur of the Year Award». In 2019, she was included in the Forbes list of «15 Businessmen Who Changed Perception of Russia».

The overall sales of company exceeded 118.7 billion rubles in 2018. According to analysts of Forbes magazine, Wildberries is worth approximately $1.2 billion. Wildberries has become the largest online store in Russia, according to Data Insight for three years in a row. Company has about 5000 pickup points with fitting rooms.