Leonid Koltashov was born in 1984 in Moscow. He studied at a school with in-depth study of foreign languages. In 2005 he graduated from the National University of Ireland majoring in International Business.

After studying, he worked at Severstaltrans Group of Companies and started his career as a manager of commercial department.

At present he is the Development Director and one of the founders of Modern Foundry Technologies.

Engineering company Modern Foundry Technologies , founded in 2012, is engaged in foundry production. The company has the necessary competences, licenses and certificates to provide a full range of engineering services in the field of foundry production - from design to commissioning and reaching the design capacity.

Today, the company actively develops products and solutions oriented to the 4.0 industry and digitalization of industry. According to the management, such solutions have a huge export potential not only in the Commonwealth Independent States, but also in European countries and far abroad. In the nearest future the company plans to reach the turnover under the concluded contracts in the amount of at least 50 million dollars.