CEO of Storewars International
Accredited Storewars International Trainer
Greg Thain has over 30 years of business experience in marketing, real estate, investment and property funds, market research, publishing, Russian and Emerging Markets, economics & management. Greg has lived in London, Moscow and now resides in Monaco with his family. He is married and has 5 children.
Greg is an entrepreneur with a strong track record of establishing successful businesses, among which are the following:
In 1996 he established one of the first domestic agencies specializing in below-the-line marketing and advertising which soon developed into International Marketing & Sales Group, a marketing services company with its primary business in emerging markets, which became the first Russian and emerging markets focused marketing agency to undertake an IPO.
In 1996 Mr. Thain was among the founders of PMC, a Russian real estate consultancy, which soon became one of the leaders in the Moscow market. In 2003 PMC acquired a license from Knight Frank and Greg was appointed the Chairman of the new company, Knight Frank Russia.
On coming to Russia in 1993, Mr. Thain established one of the first domestic market research agencies, RMRC, which was acquired by GfK Rus (the Russian subsidiary of GfK Group, one of the largest market research companies in the world) in 1998, with Greg staying on for 1.5 years as Managing Director of GfK Rus, before leaving to devote his time to his latest challenge.
In 1982 he founded Publishing Holdings, which owned 15 financial titles, including "What Mortgage?", "What Investment?", "The Stockbroker", "Equity International" and others. This business grew rapidly, took over 6 other businesses in marketing, exhibitions, publishing, however, following the financial crash in 1987, Greg sold all the assets, except the core data business. Thus From 1985 to 1993 Greg was Chief Executive of International Communication & Data Plc (ICD), with its shares being traded on the Unlisted Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Greg is a frequent speaker throughout Europe on market development in Russia & CIS and the other Emerging Markets (see complete list of his public speeches).
Aiming at sharing his extensive knowledge of retail and marketing, Greg has been running Storewars business simulation program since 2003 for such clients as Dirol, Wrigley, Tesco, SABMiller, Henkel, JTI, Philip Morris, Mars, Gillette, AC Nielsen, PWC (see the complete list of the Storewars courses run by Greg).
