Siberian Investment Congress

Mr. Andreev has 11 years of experience in financial services. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in August 2008, he was a Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance at MDM Bank. During 1997-2005 he worked in the Moscow office of UBS — for the first five years as a metals & mining analyst at Equity Research and starting in 2003 as a Director in the Investment Banking department where some of his transactions included $335m IPO of Mechel Steel Group, advisory to AngloGold on acquisition of Trans-Siberian Gold, $625m combined offering of Norilsk Nickel shares and UBS AG bonds exchangeable into Norilsk Nickel shares and others.

Mr. Andreev holds an Honours degree in International Finance from the Moscow University for International Relations.

Mr. Balvanera has been a member of the Board of Directors of companies in various sectors of the economy including tourism, telecoms and building materials, and has direct experience of negotiating at government level. Before joining the EBRD, Mr. Balvanera worked for a development bank in Mexico as an Investment Officer on projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Mr. Balvanera majored in Industrial Engineering and then specialized in Finance and Political Science. He earned his a MBA from the University of Chicago, where he was Class President.

During his time with the bank Mr. Berent has actively participated in the sale & distribution of several landmark Russian equity transactions including Evraz, Sistema and Sberbank. Since January 2006 Mr. Berent has been advising clients in Russia & the CIS on structured investment banking transactions including private equity placements, asset backed lending, multiple asset class structured finance, hedge fund derivatives and commodity/FX hedging. Mr Berent holds a Masters in Mechanical Engineering (Specializing in Medical Robotics) from Imperial College of Science & Technology in London.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Denny worked for several years in New York in the venture sector. Mr. Denny holds a B.A. from University College London and earned his MBA at London Business School.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Zlata worked for nine years in financial advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Zurich and Kiev, and The Corporate Finance Group, a boutique M&A house in Zurich. She holds Master Degree in Finance & Credit from the National Academy of Management, Kiev, Ukraine and is also a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA, UK) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Over the course of her career she has been involved in a number of M&A and Debt transactions in both Russia and abroad. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Anna worked as an Equity Capital Markets specialist at Merrill Lynch where she was involved in the execution of equity offerings. She started her career in investment banking as an analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, later moving to UBS and then MDM's Moscow-based investment banking team. Anna holds a BA degree in Finance with distinction from the Southern Methodist University (USA).

Michael read French and Russian at university before working for a joint-venture oil & gas company in Ukraine for two years. Following his time in Ukraine, Michael read law at Nottingham Law School and has been with Lovells since 1999. His long relationship with Russia and the CIS (and his fluent Russian) gives Michael a unique insight and continuity of experience in this market. Michael regularly speaks at conferences on Russian capital markets and restructuring and is widely published in the area of capital markets and restructuring in Russia.

In 2006 he led the team that successfully launched Russia’s first public-private venture capital fund combining private and government funding and continues to be directly involved in its management.

Mr. Vasyutinsky has 17 years of investment management experience in private equity, real estate and venture capital. He previously held senior positions at Jones Lang Lasalle and Redwing Ltd. Mr Vasyutinsky holds a degree in Economics from the People’s Friendship University of Russia and received his Sloan Masters degree in management from London Business School. He serves on the boards of TViGO Entertainment, Mobile Innovations, Microbor and Legos and is a frequent speaker at investment conferences as well as an active promoter of alternative investments in Russia.

There he was responsible for advising the Russian Privatization Center (RPC) on the creation of a professional services advisory firm focused on post privatization restructuring and advising enterprises on private equity finance raising.

From 1998 to 2005 Mr White was the Director of the Quadriga Central Russia Regional Venture Fund (RVF), a private equity fund financed by the EBRD and German KfW. The RVF implemented numerous successful investment projects, including Nizhpharm, now part of the Stada Group, Bridgetown Foods, Multiflex packaging and many others. Mr White created the company Marchmont Capital Partners in 2005 and resides in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Mr. White received his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, at Northwestern University.

Mr. White-Thomson joined Credit Suisse First Boston through the acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette in 2000. Prior to that, Mr White-Thomson worked for ING Barings Securities in Emerging European equities. Before joining ING Barings, Mr. White-Thomson served with the British Army between 1989 and 1994, during which he saw active service in Gulf War. Mr. White-Thomson was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

In 2002 he acted on the purchase of Mnogovershinoe mine for Highland Gold Mining Limited and together with Russian advisers spent some six months restructuring the company and assisting on systems to reach western standards of corporate governance before bringing the company to AIM later that year. More recently Andrew has advised on the recent investment in Highland Gold by Moscow-based Millhouse LLC. Andrew and his team have particular expertise in project managing and coordinating multi jurisdictional matters. In recognition of their strong international presence, Andrew and his team were awarded the Law Society's Excellence Award for Exporting Legal Services.

Andrew also lectures with the London Stock Exchange on the legal aspects of joining the London markets in Russia (Moscow, Eketerinburg, Perm and St Petersburg), Australia, Nigeria and China and is a member of RAG, the regional advisory group for the London Stock Exchange.