OREANDA-NEWS. April 23, 2013. IBA Group held the official reception IBA Group: 20 Years of IT Excellence. The reception opened a series of festivities aimed at celebrating the company’s 20th Anniversary. Conducted in Minsk, the birthplace of IBA Group, the event gathered more than 400 IBA Group customers, partners, and employees.

The official reception began with a welcoming speech by Sergei Levteev, IBA Group Chairman. Levteev said: “Many of those who are here today attended our 10th anniversary. It is the same audience chamber but after ten years that raced by as one day. I’m also happy to welcome our new friends and new partners, who arrived from Ekaterinburg, Hamburg, Astana, London, Bucharest, and Kiev. We express special gratitude to the guests who hopped over to us from the Southern Hemisphere, from Johannesburg. And of course, I am glad to see our long-term partners, primarily representatives of IBM, the company that stood at the origins of IBA Group and with whom we implemented hundreds of projects on five continents. I would like to thank our customers for their trust during all these years and today, and the government for its attention and support of the IT sector. The IT industry is rather specific. It is almost completely based on the human factor, namely the specialists, their talent, their professional competence, and responsibility, everything that our employees possess. It allows us to look back with pride and to feel confident about future.”

At the event, the following guests spoke in public to congratulate IBA Group:

Igor Voitov, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus

Vasily Pugachev, Permanent Representative of Belarus in the CIS Charter

Mikhail Batura, BSUIR Rector

Matthias Karius, Supplier Relationship Manager, IBM Germany

Jan Falck-Ytter, CIO, Bader GmbH & Co, Germany

Martin Gnass, CIO, Hapag Lloyd, Germany

Pablo Troyon Rama, Vice President of Sales, STG, CEE

Helmut Kumnig, Director, Diverse I.T. Connections, South Africa

Hagen Hoehl, Director Indirect Sales, Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH

Valery Tsepkalo, HTP Director

Sergei Nalivaiko, First Deputy Minister of Taxes and Duties of the Republic of Belarus

Pavel Kallaur, Chairman of the Board, Bank BelVEB

Andrey Suslov, Head of IT Department, IDGC of Urals

Sergei Baurin, Director of Project Implementation Department, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy

Sergei Tabulin, IBM EE/A Sales Director

Ilya Yuriev, Deputy Director General, SAP CIS

Andrei Goriaynov, Director General, SAP CIS in Belarus

Alexei Shirma, Director General, Belenergo

Alexander Pazin, Oracle CIS Regional Manager (Belarus)

Victor Vasiliuk, Deputy Chairman of the Board, BPS-Sberbank

Gennadi Melnikov, First Deputy Director General, Beltelecom

Vladimir Novik, Deputy Chairman, Belarusbank

Alexander Panasyuk, General Director, MPOVT

Vladimir Basko, Director General, Infopark

Vadim Gorodetskiy, Netkom CEO.

After the official part of the ceremonial reception, the guests were able to enjoy a festive buffet and a musical performance.