Matthias Aicher is a Director of MA Group AG. Mr. Aicher has a strong record in licensing activity. He had been an exclusive licensee of Bavaria-Film Group, one of the biggest German media holdings, for more than 8 years. Following his previous experience in licensing activity, in 2014 Matthias Aicher became a close partner of Springer Nature in Russia. In cooperation with Springer Nature, he managed to organize the national subscription related to content. Later, Mr. Aicher initiated the renewal of the national subscription together with the Russian Foundation for National Research for educational institutions. As a result, by 2020 1400 Russian universities have participated in the national subscription. In a short period of time, Matthias Aicher has achieved a measure of success with expanding partnership with more than 20 world-known publishers such as ACS Publications, Taylor &Francis, SPIE, EBSCO, CAS, IEEE, OSA, Questel, IOP Publishing Ltd.