London Stock Exchange real estate conference

Prior to joining Dragon Capital, Mr. Kamtsios was a Senior Partner at Ineko Capital Partners LLP, a Ukrainian private equity group. He has also previously spent four years at Commercial Capital Group, the private equity arm of Commercial Bank of Greece, as director of investments responsible for Russia and Ukraine, as well as for several investments of the bank in Western Europe and the USA. Mr. Kamtsios has accumulated extensive investment expertise in a breadth of industry sectors and has successfully sourced, executed and managed several investments for Commercial Capital in Eastern Europe. He has served on the board of directors of six Eastern European companies active in real estate, food processing, restaurant chains, distribution of FMCG, construction materials, and transportation industries. Prior to Commercial Capital, Mr. Kamtsios worked for five years in the leveraged buyout division of JPMorgan Chase in New York as Senior Associate. Chris received his BBA in Finance & Investments from Bernard Baruch College in New York in 1991 and has graduated with honors from a Management Training Program in 1993 sponsored by JPMorganChase.

Initially as COO, and then later as CEO of New Square CRE (commercial real estate subsidiary), he was responsible for the business set-up and development, including establishing business processes, corporate strategy, sourcing of project finance and the management of the portfolio of commercial real estate projects.

During 2001 — 2003 he worked for McKinsey & Co as a Business Analyst, and from 1997 at Citibank as a Foreign Exchange Trader and Marketing Officer responsible for derivative products.

Mr. Fetisov attended the Real Estate Management Programme of Harvard Business School in 2007 and graduated from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation (International Economics) in 1996.

Mr. Fetisov sat on board of Europarts Rus in Russia and served as a representative of OPORA Russia (All-Russian Association of Small and Medium Businesses), Member of Construction and Development Committee until November 2007 helping to foster international endeavours. His opinions on various subjects have been appearing regularly in the business press.

Evgeny graduated from secondary school in Moscow, specialising in Physics and Math. He is fluent in English and Russian and speaks conversational German and Spanish.

Since joining Nomura in 1992, Michael has helped numerous companies with their IPOs and other public/private transactions, raising in excess of €12 billion. In 2007, Michael acted as the lead banker in the US$1.93 billion IPO of PIK Group, the largest ever non-privatisation IPO from Russia.

Michael is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a first-class Masters degree from the University of St. Andrews.

Nick joined the Exchange in 1999 and has served as a Senior Manager in the Company Services Department responsible for Main Market Admissions and Securities Management and as an Account Manager in RNS during the transition to RIE status.

Prior to joining the Exchange Nick started an extensive City career trading at the London Metal Exchange moving to the Gilt Market where he was a broker and salesperson.

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.

Ray has over 26 years of experience in the investment banking field and was formerly Head of Corporate Finance of (Sumitomo) Daiwa SMBC Europe, prior to which he was a Managing Partner of the French merchant bank Demachy Worms & Cie Finance and the Managing Director of 3i CFI, the international corporate finance arm of the 3i Group.

Ray is a graduate of the Tulane Law School (Juris Doctorate 1984) and Seattle Pacific University (B.A. magna cum laude 1979).

Varun has been based in Moscow since 2003 and has worked on a number of Russian IPOs, including the IPOs of AFK Sistema, Novatek, Comstar United Telesystems, Sistema-Hals and Sitronics on the London Stock Exchange, the IPO of Mechel Steel Group on the New York Stock Exchange and the IPOs of M.video and Bank Saint Petersburg on the RTS/MICEX.

He also advises clients on general corporate matters, including corporate governance requirements and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the requirements of US, UK and Russian Stock Exchanges. He holds a JD from Georgetown Law School and a BSc with high honours from the University of Florida. Varun is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a member of the New York bar.

Prior to joining Deloitte, he was CFO of a retail company in Poland and successfully directed its initial public offering. Chris has been responsible for the audits, under International Auditing Standards, of a number of large and complex entities both in Russia and internationally.

Chris' clients include the Snegiri Group.

Greg was formerly Non-Executive Chairman of Knight SPOO (“Knight Frank Russia”) a position which he stepped down from in early 2008 in order to concentrate on his principle role at IMSG. During the four years that he was at Knight Frank Russia, the business grew to over 400 staff covering all aspects of the Moscow and wider CIS real estate sector. Greg was also a founder, together with Knight Frank plc and Knight Frank Russia, of Rutley Russia Property Asset Management, a property investment company.

Greg has over 25 years experience in marketing, sales, publishing and market research. From 1985 to 1993 he was Chief Executive of International Communication & Data Plc (ICD), a company whose shares were traded on the Unlisted Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange. Greg came to Russia in 1993 at which time he established one of the first domestic market research agencies, named RMRC. This was acquired in 1998 by GfK Rus, the Russian subsidiary of GfK Group, a large European market research company. From 1998 to 1999, Gregory was Managing Director of GfK Rus. Between 1990 and 1995 he was Chairman of the Russian branch of Conservatives Abroad.

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.

Bruce currently heads up the Larger Companies client relationship management team at the London Stock Exchange which involves the provision of advice to companies seeking a listing.

Previously Bruce worked at the UKLA for several years within the Specialist Issuer team and he was responsible for providing advice under the Listing and Prospectus Rules to companies and corporate advisers on IPO structures.

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.

She works closely with local exchanges on joint projects aimed at facilitating the understanding of capital markets within the local business community. Another aspect of her role is bringing together the global financial community in London and that of Russia & CIS.

Prior to joining the Exchange, Zarina worked as a solicitor for the leading City law firms. She received her LLB degree from King’s College London in 2002. She is fluent in Russian and Polish.