Chris became Chairman of The British Land Company PLC in January 2007. British Land is Europe's second largest property group by market cap and invests in prime commercial and retail property.

He is a Non-Executive Director of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority. In addition, he is a governor of the London Business School. Chris was Chairman of National Air Traffic Services (NATS) from 2001—2005, Group Managing Director of BP from 1997—2001, a Director of Lloyds TSB from 1999—2005, and Director of Powergen from 2001—2002. As a result, he has experience of the oil and gas sector including exploration, production, refining, and petrochemicals, plus the banking, aviation, power, property, and finance sectors.

Chris has a BSc in Geology from Durham University (1967), a PhD in Geochemistry from Newcastle University (1970) and a Masters in Business from Stanford University (1985). He was a Sloan Fellow of the Stanford Business School (1984—85).

He joined BP in 1970 as an exploration and production geologist. He became European Chief Executive for BP Exploration in 1992 and then Chief Operating Officer for BP Chemicals in 1995. He became a Group Managing Director of BP in 1997.

He served on Government advisory committees on aviation, and oil and gas. He also served two terms on the Sloan Advisory Board of the Stanford Business School, is a past Chairman of Business in the Arts Scotland, past Chairman of the California Marine Mammal Centre, past Council member of the CBI Scotland, past member of the UK Sustainability Commission, and a past Trustee of the Institute of Public Policy Research, and Arts and Business.

Chris is married to Marjorie who is a teacher. They have two children — Emma, an architect and Sarah, a doctor. His interests include literature, music, art, skiing, sailing, and golf.

In 1982 — 1991 he was employed by Vnesheconombank of the USSR and the State Bank of the USSR. From 1991 till 1998 A.Potemkin was employed by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

During 1996 — 1998 he held the position of the Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank and was the Member of its Board of Directors.

From 1993 till 1999 A.Potemkin was the Chairman of the Board of MICEX.

In 1996 — 1998 he was the member of Board of Directors of the Vneshtorgbank.

In 1999 — 2003 he consecutively held the positions of the Councilor of the Board of Vneshtorgbank, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of MFK Bank, Deputy Chairman of the Board of ROSBANK.

On April 24, 2003 A.Potemkin was elected to the position of General Director of "Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange" (MICEX). Since September 30, 2005 A.Potemkin is the President of MICEX.

In 2005 MICEX became the winner of the "Russian Financial Elite" award in the category "Best Traditions of the Art of Exchange".

In 2007 MICEX won "Business People — 2006" award in the category "Financial Leader".

In 2007 Alexander Potemkin became the "Person of the Year" awardee in the category "Leader of the Year".

A.Potemkin is married, has three children.

Prior to that he was Head of Investment Banking for Russia at J.P. Morgan in Moscow, having worked at Chase Manhattan Bank and then J.P.Morgan since 1997. Mr. Rybnikov started his banking and financial markets career in 1991 at Evrofinance Bank (Moscow). He is a graduate of the Moscow International Institute of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2003, he was named Antanta Capital Investment Company's managing director, becoming the company's CEO in 2006. After purchasing of a controlling stake in PIO GLOBAL Asset Management in 2007 Eugene Kogan became the Head of AntantaPioglobal Investment Group.

Mr. Kogan is a member of the Russian Trading System (RTS) Board of Directors.

Married with four children, he is a keen angler, and enjoys foreign travel, classical music, art, and horse riding. Another personal passion is acting in amateur theater and movies.

In 2003—2004 he was a member of the Government Administration Reform expert group and was occupied with legal issues related to financial markets and currency regulation.

In 2001—2004 he was a member of the Expert Council of the Federal Securities Commission. In this position he took an active part in elaborating the Corporate Governance Code.

In 1994—1998 he worked with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the International Institute of Legal Based Economy and took part in elaborating draft laws "On joint-stock companies", "On limited liability companies", "On investment funds" and numerous regulations of the Federal Securities Commission.

Mr. Timofeev received his bachelor degree in civil law from Bussiness Law Institute, Ural State Legal Academy in 1994, and currently working on his Ph.D thesis in civil law at The Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Russian Federation Government.

He is married with two children.

Olga has authority with real estate market. Her opinions and quotes are regularly published in the leading real estate issues.

Among the clients of Real Estate Advisory Department there are the following companies: Sberbank, MTS (Mobile Telesystems), Inteco, Horus-Capital, Alfa-Bank, Capital Partners, International Moscow Bank, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg City Property Departments and many others.

Prior to the EBRD she worked with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson where, as a Project and Export Finance Manager, she structured transactions in infrastructure, oil and gas, and mining sectors. Before this she worked as a legal expert on nuclear safeguards and trade with the European Parliament in Luxembourg, and provided consultations to the Parliament and the Central Bank of Ukraine on the harmonisation of Ukrainian legislation with the EU. Miss Selska graduated from the State University of St Petersburg with M.A. in Law in 1993 and from the University of Ottawa with LLM degree in 1994. Oxana is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German.

Evgeny's clients include the Ministry of Transport of RF, EBRD, Sheremetyevo airport, Aeroflot, commercial banks, developers and investors of infrastructure and industrial projects.

Prior to transfer to the Transaction Advisory Services Department Evgeny worked as a partner and manager at the Assurance and Business Advisory Services Department of Ernst & Young. He worked with enterprises in retail, consumer products and telecommunication sectors, providing assurance and advisory services. Evgeny graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with diploma in international economic relations and holds an MBA degree from University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

The research team he heads for Renaissance Capital has been voted as the number one team on Russia in the Institutional Investor All Europe survey in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Before that, he has regularly picked up awards from the Extel survey and the Reuters survey of analysts on Russia.

Before heading up the research team, Mr Nash worked at various times as Chief Strategist, Head of Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist, all for Renaissance Capital, which he joined in 1996. He is now a Managing Director within the firm and a shareholder.

Between 1994 and 1996, Mr Nash worked as a senior economic expert at the Russian European Center for Economic Policy (RECEP) where he acted as an adviser to the Ministry of Economy.

Before this ne was employed in Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange where he held the post of First Vice-President. In 2000—2003, he headed analytical department of Rosbank, in 1997—1999 was employed by CEO in CJSC "Alliance asset management", American Alliance Capital Management Corporation associated company.

Valeriy Petrov graduated from the Engineering-space university named after A.F.Mozhajskiy on a speciality "Automation of control systems" and the Moscow State University majoring in jurisprudence. Mr. Petrov is PhD in Economics and has certificates of The Federal Financial Markets Service series 2.0, 3.0, 5.0 and CIIA.

He graduated from Moscow University for International Affairs with a degree in International Politics and Economy, and received a senior management education at Harvard Business School in Boston, USA. He has advised a number of governments and private entities in the region on large scale privatisation, M&A, capital raising in debt and equity markets and other corporate finance matters.

He has an expert knowledge of the issues facing banks and private sector companies in the region, having acted as leader of teams advising Central and East Europe governments in several high profile privatisation transactions. Mr. Schmidt has developed strong relationships with many of the top corporate leaders and senior bankers in Central & Eastern Europe and Russia.

Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Rice spent four years at Simmons & Simmons, where he acted on a large number of substantial corporate deals. During his time at Simmons, he was seconded to its corporate practice in Milan, where he acted on high-value Italian law mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Rice also worked at 3i Group plc, the private equity and venture capital house, as a legal advisor to the European investment teams.

Mr. Rice received his B.A. in Russian from Exeter University in 1993 and attended the College of Law in London. He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1998.

Mr. Rice speaks fluent Russian and Italian.

His recent significant transactions included:

In Russia:
— US$774m IPO of LSR Group,
— US$365m IPO of M-Video,
— US$274m IPO of Bank St Petersburg,
— US$8.0bn IPO of VTB Bank,
— US$1.14bn IPO of AFI Development,
— US$360m of Dixy,
— US$1.96bn IPO of PIK Group,
— US$605m IPO of Polymetal, and
— US$381m IPO of CTCMedia.

In Kazakhstan:
— US$1.4bln IPO of ENRC,
— US$748m IPO of Halyk bank

In Ukraine: — US$500m IPO of Ferrexpo

He also executed a number of block trades (Evraz and MTS) as well as a number of smaller monetisation strategic holdings across Emerging Markets

Reinout has a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2001, Reinout was a lecturer in economics and worked for McKinsey & Co in Frankfurt and Singapore/Bangkok

Tony then moved into banking focusing on the International Capital Markets. During this time, he worked extensively on Corporate Finance and Equity Fund Raising transactions as well as advising on Bids, Defences and other M&A transactions.

In 1996, Tony moved into Financial Communications and whilst at College Hill has advised on many strategic communications programmes working particularly with emerging markets.

Tony is responsible for College Hill’s business in Russia & CIS and has wide experience of fund raisings and listings including most recently Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port.

He has represented issuers and depositaries in public and private securities offerings in the US and European capital markets. Mr. Banovich also advises on corporate governance and compliance issues under US securities laws. As a complement to his capital markets focus, he has worked on cross-border investment fund structuring and public M&A and private equity transactions.

Mr. Banovich joined Latham & Watkins in September 2007 from LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP, where he was a partner and Head of the Russian Capital Markets practice since 2004.

Mark Banovich is listed in Chambers Global 2007 for his expertise in Russian capital markets work. In the 2007 edition of IFLR 1000 he is listed as a "key contact partner" in the Russian capital markets arena.

Education

J. D., Cornell Law School, 1995, John  M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

A. B., Economics, Princeton University, 1992

magna cum laude

Bar Qualifications

Mr. Banovich was admitted to the New York Bar in 1996.

Publications

“Russian Depositary Receipts: An Idea Whose Time Has (Almost) Come”, Russia/Eurasia Executive Guide, January 2007.

“A Mixed Bag of Takeover Reforms”, International Financial Law Review, July 2006.

One aspect of his work is facilitating communication between the City investment community and Russia. Mr. Edwards is a frequent traveller to Russia and has also organized conferences in London to promote Russian companies to the investor community in the UK.

Mr. Edwards studied at Columbia University where he received his BA degree in Russian studies and joint JD/MBA degree in business and law. He joined the London Stock Exchange in August 2003, before which he worked on private equity transactions for Incepta Ventures UK Limited, Delta Capital and BNP-Invest. Mr. Edwards has more than six years of experience working with Russian companies in the natural resources, consumer products and pharmaceuticals sectors.

Before joining Sviaz-Bank, Mr. Avtukhov was Head of Debt Instruments at BANK SOYUZ were he was responsible for bond and promissory notes issues, developing financial market operations and Bank's own bond program.

Mr. Avtukhov is a graduate of Economic Faculty of Moscow State University of Design and Technology.

Pietro supervised the start-up of the new trading platform for listing and trading of covered warrants in 2000. He was managing the start-up of the new market for listing and trading of Eurononds and Asset back Securities — EuroMOT. He also headed the start-up of ETFplus market for listing and trading of ETFs and ETCs. He was the Member of the Management Board of MTS Spa. Prior to that Pietro held a number of positions in the following companies: Banca della Svizzera Italiana (BSI), Mercati Finanziari Sim (Istbank Group), Paine Webber.

Previously, Aleksandra was Institutional Marketing Officer at HSBC Investments. She started her career as business development/marketing analyst in Barep AM.

Ms Kosmulska is graduate from the "Institut d'Etudes Politiques" Paris and holds a Master in Economics form Paris University and BA in Political Science from Berlin University.

From 2002 until mid-2005 he worked in the Convertible Bond Division at Société Générale covering in particular the German-speaking markets. In this role he was involved in transactions with organisations such as KfW and Deutsche Telekom, as well as Bookrunner for mandates with Holcim, Linde and France Telecom. He was also responsible for the Primary EQL Market analysis.

Since mid-2005 he has been with UniCredit in Equity-Linked Origination. Bookrunner mandates include: EUR 450m Nero Finance EB into Tui Travel, EUR 196m conwert Immobilien CB, EUR 694m TUI CB, CHF 150m BB Medtech Partial Mandatory CB, CHF 200m BB Biotech Partial Mandatory CB.

Stephan Eckhardt holds the position of Director for Equity-Linked Origination / Equity Capital Markets at UniCredit Group (HVB). He has 11 years of experience in Equity Capital Markets, of which he spent 6 years in Equity-Linked Origination (2.5 years with UniCredit).

Graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with applied Physics and Mathematics major and from Georgia Institute of Technology with an MBA.

Prior to that Lee held a number of positions within the derivatives environment in his native USA, including spending a number of years on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Lee holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Wyoming and a Masters in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.

In 1997 Andrey Babenko moved to Dutch Bank ABN AMRO where he was responsible for fixed income business development.

In 1998 Andrey Babenko was appointed as Head of Fixed Income & Derivatives Department in Montes Auri company.

In August 1998 Andrey Babenko was named as Head of Fixed Income Sales & Trading in CentreInvest Group.

In 2001 Andrey Babenko moved to Trust and Investment Bank and took a position of Structured Products Director responsible for management of bank's derivatives business, mainly options, and management of bank's REPO operations.

Since 2003 Andrey Babenko served as Chief Executive Officer in Antanta Capital Group where he was involved in general and day-to-day management of the Group and strategic business development of universal investment bank.

In 2006 Andrey Babenko came to OTKRITIE Financial Corporation as a Managing Director responsible for the relations with institutional and international investors as well as for origination, market-making, sales and trading services on Russian securities and derivatives markets.

Koen frequently advices on capital market infrastructure and payment systems. He assisted the European commission with the transposition study of the settlement finality directive and advised on clearing and settlement infrastructure in Russia, Roumania, Belgium and the FYR Macedonia.

She is now responsible for all aspects of The Bank�s securities business in Russia & CIS, which consists of Depositary Receipts & Corporate Trust businesses. Irina is a graduate of Georgetown University with a major in Finance & Psychology.

Previously, Tim worked for Capco and KPMG as a consultant, Salomon Brothers as Head of Derivative Operations in London and at LIFFE where he was Head of Compliance.