Fernando Igartua, Partner, Gomez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados has joined Gomez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados in 1989 and was appointed a partner of the firm in 1994. He worked with Linklaters & Paines (London) as an associate in 1991-1992. His areas of specialization are: banking, structured finance, project finance and takeover bids, e-banking and new technologies legislation. President of the Instituto de Consejeros-Administradores since 2003.

Stefan Jekel, Director, New York Stock Exchange, has joined the NYSE in March 2001. He is responsible for client service and new business of the EMEA region. This includes meetings with international listed companies’ officials and prospects to increase their understanding of the strategic benefits of an NYSE listing and the NYSE’s service initiatives. In addition, he is responsible for handling listed companies’ inquiries regarding regulatory issues, compliance, trading and events.
Mr. Jekel had been employed with the New York office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1998 through 2001. As part of Assurance and Business Advisory Services, he serviced international clients by resolving their cross-border accounting and reporting issues.

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Dorian B. Foyil, President and Chief Investment Officer, Foyil Securities
As a London-based analyst for UBS Securities, he was Number One rated in the 1990 Extel Survey. During his subsequent five-year tenure with the Franklin-Templeton Investment Management firm, he had direct portfolio responsibility for some $800m in global and emerging market mutual funds and institutional pension assets.
Foyil Asset Management was established in 1996 by Dorian B. Foyil who serves as the company’s President and Chief Investment Officer. He has been active in the investment management industry for more than 16 years.

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Wieslaw Rozlucki, Ph.D., President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange
In 1990 Mr. Rozlucki was Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Poland. In 1990-1991 – Director of the Capital Markets Development Department in the Ministry of Privatization, in 1991-1994 – Member of the Polish Securities Commission, in 1993-1995 – Member of the President’s Economic Development Council.
Mr. Rozlucki is a President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, member of the Supervisory Board of the National Depository for Securities, and the Board’s Chairman. He is also member of the Corporate Governance Best Practices Committee established in 2001 within the framework of the Corporate Governance Forum. In 1995-2002 Mr. Rozlucki served as a Chairman of the Co-ordination Committee for the New Trading System, in 2002-2003 he was a Chairman of the Capital Markets Development Forum, Member of the Forum’s Presidium, Member of the Board of the Foundation for Capital Markets Development. Member of the Working Committee of the World Federation of Exchanges (former FIBV), member of the Working Committee of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE).

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Tomas Fiala, managing director at the Kyiv-based investment bank Dragon Capital, has ten years experience from Central and Eastern European securities markets. Fiala started his career at Bayerische Vereinsbank in Prague in 1994 following studies at the Prague University of Economics. In 1995, he moved to Wood & Company, a leading investment bank in the CEE region, and was shortly sent to Ukraine to establish and run Wood’s operations in the country. Under Fiala’s leadership, Wood & Co. became one of the top investment banks in Ukraine. Following the 1998 crisis, Fiala moved to Wood’s Warsaw office to launch an on-line brokerage. In 2000, he and his former Ukrainian colleagues from Wood teamed up to establish Dragon Capital and led it to become one of the most successful investment banks in the recovering Ukrainian market. At Dragon, Fiala is responsible for strategic management of the firm and heads its investment banking division. He has managed transactions for Interbrew, Bonduelle, CRH and other multinational clients.

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Szabolcs Czenthe is a Head of the Investor Relations of Matav Group, Hungary. During his university years he had worked for MOL Rt. as controller, and from 1995 worked at the privatization office of MOL where he participated in all three privatization transactions of the company. From 1997 he was responsible for the development and operation of the investor relations of MOL Group. Since February 11, 2002 he has been head of the Investor Relations of Matav Group. Both at MOL and Matav, he won several IR awards. The latest success was achieved in Budapest where Matav Group IR won the following awards: Grand Prix for Best Overall Investor Relations, Best Corporate Governance, Best Social Responsibility, Best IR web site, Best IR in Hungary. He is the Chairman of Issuers’ Committee at the Budapest Stock Exchange.

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Dmytro Dragun, Finance Director, Ukrproduct Group Ltd, Ukraine-Jersey, and Finance Director and Board Member Ukrproduct Group Ltd, producer of dairy-based branded FMCG products and Ukraine’s first public company on London Stock Exchange, section AIM.
Develops and implements the Group’s overall financial and fund-raising strategy, supports investor communications and the programmes of investor awareness, coordinates and oversees the Group’s IAS/IFRS audits, including the production of annual reports, facilitates the Board work via coordination of efforts with Chief Executive Officer, collates the trading updates and other ad-hoc reports as requires by the Group’s activities.

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Armen Khachaturyan, partner, head of banking, finance and securities practice group, Shevchenko Didkovskiy & Partners
Mr. Khachaturyan has extensive banking, finance and project finance experience, particularly in secured lending transactions in various industries, and led the firm’s team working on several Eurobond issues. His practice areas also include general corporate advice, M&A, securities, employment law, currency control, energy, natural resources and privatization. Mr. Khachaturyan frequently advises foreign and Ukrainian clients on cross-border legal planning and regulatory issues related to foreign investment.
Mr. Khachaturyan started his legal practice as an intern in the law firm of Sills, Cummins, Zuckerman, Radin, Tischman, Epstein & Gross, New Jersey, USA (ABA/Soros Foundation sponsored program), in 1991-1992. Prior to joining Shevchenko Didkovskiy & Partners, Mr. Khachaturyan was an associate at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P. in its Columbus office, Ohio, USA (1995-1998), and Kyiv office, Ukraine (1998-2001), where he worked on diverse corporate, finance and real estate projects.

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Danny Mandryk, Managing Director, Kiev Office of Aon Ltd Ukraine
Managing Director, Kiev Office of Aon Ltd Ukraine since 1993. Started career with the Company in 1971 in the City of London and at Lloyds of London. Prior to current appointment was Director of Financial Services Division in the City providing Risk Management , Finance and Mortgage related products, Corporate Benefits and Insurance Protection for Companies, Multi-Nationals, Financial Institutions and Professional Bodies. Involved in the CIS countries since 1992 and established the operation in Kyiv.

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Dmitriy Tomashevskiy, Managing Director, Sokrat IFG, was engaged in international commodities trading for the period of 1995 -1999. Since 1999 till 2004 he pursued opportunities in investments and options trading modelling. In 2004 he worked for UkrSibbank IB department. Mr. Tomashevskiy joined Sokrat in 2004 to accelerate Investment Banking Advisory activities.

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Narek Harutyunyan, Partner, Trust Capital Group, specializes in the areas of business process optimization and corporate governance, as well as in management of complex projects involving both CIS and western organizations. Dr Harutyunyan is well acquainted with business processes of companies operating in the transitional economies, and the management and development challenges they face, having gained practical experience while working with the International Finance Corporation, as well as having founded and managed his own company in Armenia.
He moved to Ukraine in 2004 to become a founding partner of Trust Capital Group which consequently coordinated, managed and successfully accomplished the Initial Public Offering of the first Ukrainian company on the London Stock Exchange. Apart from his current position, Dr Harutyunyan is also Deputy CFO of the holding company of Ukrproduct Group. He holds a PhD in Management and Economics and an MBA from Oxford University.

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Richard Smith, is Senior Counsel at the Washington, D.C., office of the Russian-Ukrainian Legal Group (RULG), where he practices corporate and securities law. Prior to joining RULG in 2000, Mr. Smith worked for over four years in Russia, first as International Contracts Director for Tver InterContact Group, then as an associate attorney for the law firm Clifford Chance. Mr. Smith holds a degree in International Relations from the College of William & Mary, received his juris doctorate from the University of Baltimore, and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the Maryland Bar, and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Andriy Khudo is a Head of Investment Department of the Universal Investment Group. He is responsible for capital formation, business plans and analysis, and project management. Mr.Khudo is also a Chairman of the Supervisory Board of OJSC Concern Khlebrom. Earlier he worked for JSC Concern Galnaftogaz as a Head of Analytical Department and a specialist of Financial Department.
Mr.Khudo graduated from Lviv Ivan Franko National University with a degree in finance. He also holds a master's degree in public administration from the National Academy of Public Administration. He is currently doing his post-graduate studies in the Lviv Ivan Franko National University.

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Roman Bolotovsky graduated from Moscow State Law Academy with a degree in law in 1994. He is a specialist in corporate and economic law, and securities.
Since 1993 Mr. Bolotovsky has been working for Wimm-Bill-Dann Company. In different years he was on boards of directors of different legal entities.
Currently, Mr. Bolotovsky is a Head of Legal Department of Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC and a member of the Board of Directors of Lianozov Dairy Factory which is the largest company in the group.

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Jorge Intriago is a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Ukraine and has over 20 years experience of providing tax and legal consulting to investors operating in developing countries. During his time in Ukraine, he has assisted many multinational companies to consider investment opportunities and develop Ukrainian business strategies; performed multinational and domestic tax planning; and reviewed domestic tax compliance. He has been directly responsible for managing and ensuring the technical quality of all work for a number of clients, and has developed broad expertise within the consumer products, telecommunications, banking and energy sectors. In addition, Jorge is a member of PwC’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group and European Capital Markets and Treasury Group, and has theatre management responsibilities for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa for a worldwide top tier client. He lectures and writes frequently on taxation in Ukraine, both in domestic and international forums, and formed part of the tax reform sub-committee of the Interdepartmental Committee on Economic Reform of the former Ukrainian government. Jorge is a vice-president of the European Business Association (EBA) in Ukraine and a delegate of the EBA with the Ministry of Finance and State Tax Administration.

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Serhiy Dzis graduated with high honors from the Kiev State University Institute of International Relations and holds a Master's degree in Private International Law. In March 2005, Mr. Dzis received a Ph.D. in Civil Law, Civil Procedure, Family Law, and Private International Law from the same university. Before joining the Russian-Ukrainian Legal Group, Mr. Dzis initially worked for the CIS Intergovernmental Scientific and Technical Council, where he handled international and CIS Members-States labor law matters. He later took a position with the Legal Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and passed the admissions examination for entrance into Ukraine's diplomatic corps. While working in the public sector, Mr. Dzis devoted his attention to legal analysis of international treaties, questions of sovereign immunity and other issues of international public law. He then moved to an in-house counsel position with a large British-Ukrainian Company, where he dealt with a wide range of issues involving both international and Ukrainian law. His areas of expertise include copyright and neighboring rights, advertising law, telecommunications law, trade law, corporate and business law, labor law, commercial litigation, information technology and legal regulation of the Internet.

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David Herbert is a Head of Emerging Europe Corporate Finance, ING BAnk, responsible for originating and executing advisory/mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets assignments.
David’s transaction experience includes transactions in Russia, Poland (TPSA strategic US$4.2bn sale), Hungary, Romania (Mobil Rom US100m private placement, SNP Petrom on-going strategic sale), Portugal (Cimpor US$750m IPO, Portugal Telecom US$860m advisory), Greece, Philippines, PRC (Zhenhai Petrochemical US$200m IPO), Argentina, Brazil and Egypt (Commercial International Bank US$120m GDR offering), Petrom (Philippines) US$387m IPO),
In Russia, David led the ING teams in the IPOs of Mobile Telesystems, Wimm-Bill-Dann, Pharmacy Chain 36.6 and Open Investments.
Before joining ING in 1989 David worked for British Petroleum plc in various downstream oil and planning functions in the head office, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Between 1970 and 1978 he was a Lecturer in Economics at Brunel University.
David has a PhD in Economics and speaks Portuguese.

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Mark Taylor advises on flotations on AIM and the main market of the London Stock Exchange, rights issues, open offers and other secondary public issues.He is experienced in acquisitions and disposals for public and private companies and has been the lead partner on a number of substantial takeover bids including hostile and contested bids with a combined value of more than Ј2 billion.He is also involved in corporate restructurings, joint ventures and shareholder agreements for public and private companies.

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Vladyslava Riabota is a graduate of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Faculty of Law. She complemented her legal background at Essex University, Great Britain as a British Council scholar. Out of 13 years of her career as a lawyer, she dedicated more than 8 years to corporate governance. Among her areas of expertize are shareholders' rights, M&A, directors' responsibilities, conflict of interests. Vladyslava co-authored First Ukrainian Corporate Governance Manual and Corporate Governance Case-Study Book and wrote numerous articles on diferent aspects of corporate governance.

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Ferda Atabek is Investor Relations Officer. She joined Turkcell in May 1999. Prior to joining Turkcell, he worked as an Assistant Manager at Turkiye S?nai Kalk?nma Bankas? A.?. She holds a masters degree in MSc in International Business.

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Aleksandr Timofeev has Master’s Degree in Economics (Financial Management), Plekhanov State Academy of National Economy. Degree in Law, Perm State University. Eurocenter’s Lee Green School of Linguistics, London, UK. Prior to Liniya Prava, worked as a legal advisor to Prisco Corp. (Primorsk Shipping Corporation, world’s 5th largest shipper) and Northern Sea (fishing and fish-processing company). Advised Gazprom on the improvement of corporate governance, including the complete review and redrafting of its internal documents. Represented Gazprom in the Federal Commission for the Securities Market within the framework of the project for drafting of the Corporate Governance Code. Advised the underwriters (Alfa Bank, Trust and Investment Bank, Raiffeisenbank Austria) on several multimillion-dollar public placements of documentary coupon bonds of Russian issuers (Alrosa—16.7 million US Dollars, Alfafinance—33 million US Dollars, IAPO—500 million roubles, UES of Russia—3 billion roubles, etc.). Leads the Liniya Prava advisory team in the issuance and offering of securities.

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