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Igor Emelyanov Managing Director, Trade & Export Finance VTB
Graduated from Russian University of Cooperation (former Moscow University of Consumer Cooperation) and later took an MBA at the State University - Higher School of Economics.
Has more than 10 years experience in trade and export finance as well as in financial institutions relations. Worked for Probusinessbank (Russia) at the position of head of trade finance. In 2007 joined MDM Bank (Russia) as director of International interbank funding department, being in charge of tied and pre-export finance.
In B.I.N. Bank (Russia) held a position of acting Head of International Business and Financial Institutions Department taking care of conventional trade and ECA covered finance business, syndicated loans, Eurobonds and domestic bonds placement.
From 2010 to 2012 worked for Sberbank (Russia) at the position of head of projects at trade finance and financial institutions department and was responsible for trade deals origination, structuring, communication with financial institutions and daughter banks.
For the time being - managing director of trade and export finance department of VTB Bank (Russia), being in charge of PXF, ECA covered and structured finance business development in VTB Group as well as supervise TEF with counterparties from Asia-Pacific region.
Alexey Tyupanov Chairman of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer Exiar
Mr. Tyupanov has been with EXIAR since its creation in various posts and prior to his appointment as CEO, he served as Member of the Board - Managing Director of Business Development and Underwriting.
Mr. Tyupanov has over 15 years of financial services experience across a number of financial institutions with an emphasis on Debt Finance, Capital Markets & Financial Institutions, Funding & Investor Relations.
He holds a BSc degree in mechanics and mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, further to an MBA from State University of Management.
Arseniy Ulchenkov Director of Corporate Finance Summa Group
Arseniy Ulchenkov, CFA, CAIA, FRM is Director of Corporate Finance with Summa Group (Logistics and Diversified Holdings).
He has lots of experience in almost every aspect of Finance - from FP&A to Risk Management, from Trade Finance to Equity Financing, etc.
Arseniy holds an MSc degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and an MBA degree from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Ksenia Sergeeva Head of Debt Financing, Corporate Finance Department NLMK
Ksenia joined NLMK Group (Novolipetsk Steel) around 5 years ago as Head of Debt Financing in Corporate Finance Department. Before joining NLMK Ksenia spent 5 years in UniCredit Bank, occupying various positions in Credit Department and Structured Finance.
In her current role Ksenia is responsible for raising external debt financing (both international and local loan and debt capital markets) for the entire NLMK Group, optimization of credit portfolio etc.
Ksenia’s educational background includes the Degree at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics, specialization "Jurisprudence" (the financial and banking law) and the Degree at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, specialization “Finance and Credit".
Artem Pozdnyakov Head of Corporate Finance Norilsk Nickel
Artem Pozdnyakov joined Norilsk Nickel in 2006 and is in charge of maintenance and development of relationships with domestic and foreign financial institutions, ECAs, fixed income & equity investors. He is responsible for the implementation of the Group financial strategy, monitoring and optimizing the Group companies’ debt portfolio and capital structure including securing external financing to cover Norilsk Nickel’s short and long term funding requirements, working capital release exercises and liability management. Artem also covers the work with international credit rating agencies.
Prior to joining Norilsk Nickel Artem worked in Paris in different divisions of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking dealing with commodity producers and traders where he was primarily focusing on the Russian and CIS corporate space.
Artem completed a masters degree exchange program in Sciences-Po, Paris and graduated from the Moscow State University of International Relations. He is fluent in English, French and Russian.
Sergey Rezontov Finance Director Mechel
Sergey Rezontov is the Finance Director of Mechel.
Mikhail Lopatin Deputy Head of Corporate Finance & Treasury Freight One
- 2015 - 2016, Head of Corporate finance and treasury at JSC Freight One - 2012 - 2015, Deputy head of Corporate finance and treasury at JSC Freight One - 2011 - 2012, Head of Debt Finance at JSC Freight One - 2009 - 2011, Leading financial manager at JSC Freight One - 2008 - 2009, Head of corporate finance division at Snegiri Development - 2007 - 2008, Risk analyst at BNP Paribas - 2003 - 2007, Credit analyst at Sberbank, Headquarters - 1998 - 2003, State Univesity Higher Shool of Economics
Anna Ponomareva Managing Director, Structured ECA Finance VTB
Anna is heading structured ECA finance team in VTB Bank (Russia) from 2013, when she joined the Bank.
She is responsible for loans secured by ECAs as well as product development within the global business line in VTB Group.
Previously she worked for Sberbank (Russia) for over 3 years as a Project Head in charge of originating and structuring transactions with ECA funding/coverage.
Her career in trade finance started at Rosselkhozbank, where she worked for over 5 years with conventional trade finance products, PXF and ECA covered loans.
Graduated from Moscow State University of International Relations in 2005.
Igor Ostreyko Managing Director, Trade & Export Finance VTB
Igor has over 17 years of banking experience focusing on trade and structured finance.
For the time being Igor takes the position of the Managing Director of Trade and Export Finance at VTB Bank Moscow. Mr. Ostreyko is responsible for conventional trade and export finance, global trade finance and development of active trade finance business with financial institutions, incl. services of postfinancing, discounting. TRL and other produscts. He also covers trade and export finance activities of VTB Group banks in Europe and CIS.
Prior joining VTB Igor was heading Financial Markets Division in Sberbank’s daughter in Belarus. He successfully managed professional teams responsible for trade and structured finance, financial institutions, securities and custody business. Igor significantly contributed to successful development of the bank n international business.
Igor is multilingual with fluency in Russian, English and German.
Peter Luketa Global Head, Export Credit & Global Specialised Finance HSBC
Peter Luketa is the Global Head of Export Finance and Global Specialised Finance (formerly Forfaiting), a division of HSBC Bank plc but also works closely with the Project Finance unit. After a career in International Banking, Peter specialised in the project business in the mid-80’s focussing on Middle Eastern and European projects.
He then completed a period in Germany as Head of the Chairman’s office in Trinkaus und Burkhardt Düsseldorf, followed by two years as Head of European Corporate Banking, HSBC Bank plc before returning to Export Finance in 1995 at HSBC Investment Bank.
Peter has advised on and arranged finance for projects in Kazakhstan, Russia, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Romania, Turkey, Iraq, Brazil, Mexico and Chile as well as structured projects in Germany and Italy. (Sectors include transportation, airports, power, infrastructure and telecoms). He assumed the role of Global Head of Export Finance from the 1st January 2009 and in October 2010 took over as Global Head of GSF (formerly known as HSBC Forfaiting).
Peter has a literature and languages degree and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
Hanieh Ferdowsi Managing Director, International Business Development Exiar
Ms. Ferdowsi is head of the international business development and amongst her responsibilities is Exiar's participation and representation on international platforms, all reinsurance transactions, the Agencies' partnerships and network. In particular, she drives the international activities of the company in key strategic markets and covers the approach with local markets and buyers.
Prior to joining Exiar, Ms Ferdowsi worked in SACE in Rome. Ms. Ferdowsi has over 13 years of international business experience in various companies in London and Europe.
She holds a Master Degree in European Studies, University of Westminster, London (2004) and a BA (hons) in International Relations, Richmond, the American International University in London (2003)
Dmitriy Minaev Managing Director, International Trade Finance Alfa Bank
1996 graduate of State Finance Academy, Faculty of International Economic Relations. Initial specialization – International Currency and Credit Relations.
In September 1996 joined MDM-BANK. Has been responsible for different aspects of Financial Institutions and Trade finance activities: guarantees, letters of credit, short-term and long-term financing. Head of Trade Finance Department since November 2002.
In December 2009 joined ALFA-BANK to lead the International and Trade Finance Department. The Department is responsible for originating, structuring and documenting all types of short and long term trade finance transactions as well as keeping the relationship function with international financial institutions.
Stefan Schmidt Head of Unit, Underwriting, CIS Euler Hermes
Since 08/2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG, Hamburg Federal Export Credit Guarantees Department Underwriting Head of Unit Russia/CIS 04/2013 – 07/2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG, Hamburg Federal Export Credit Guarantees Department Financial Sector & Key Account Risks 06/2012 – 03/2013 SERV - Swiss Export Risk Insurance, Zurich/Switzerland Insurance Business Client Counseling & Support, Business Underwriting 07/2011 – 05/2012 PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG, Hamburg Federal Export Credit Guarantees Department Financial Sector & Key Account Risks 01/2011 – 06/2011 PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG, Hamburg Federal Export Credit Guarantees Department International Debt Solutions 03/2007 – 12/2010 PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG, Hamburg Federal Export Credit Guarantees Department Underwriting Unit CIS 05/2006 – 02/2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG, Dresden Guarantee Scheme Free State of Saxony 10/2001 – 04/2006 Studies of Business Administration University of Applied Sciences Wurzburg
Julia Petrova Head of Global Transaction Banking UniCredit Bank Russia
Julia Petrova was appointed to the position of Head of Global Transaction Banking (GTB) Department of UniCredit Bank Russia as from March 14, 2011. In this role, Julia has been responsible for development and strengthening of GTB services including trade finance, cash management, correspondent banking, securities services, factoring and structured trade & export finance.
Julia joined UniCredit Bank from Citibank, where she was working since 1996 and was holding various positions with the constant extension of the responsibility area with the major focus on customer coverage and product development - till summer 2006 Julia was the Head of FMCG, Transportation and Infrastructure Unit in Corporate and Investment Banking Department at ZAO Citibank Moscow and since September 2006 to March 2011 Julia was CIS Cluster Head of Trade Finance and Trade Services.
Julia Petrova is graduated from the State Finance Academy, International Economics, and possesses a proven experience in banking.
Sergey Karmalito Head of Export Finance Russia, Project & Export Finance, Capital Financing, Global Banking & Markets HSBC
Sergey has been with HSBC Project and Export Finance team for the last 5 years looking after the Russian Export Finance market. He has recently relocated to London to join the bank’s Sub-Saharan Africa team, still retaining his country responsibility for Russia.
Sergey has been involved in all major EF transactions that HSBC closed on the Russian market in the last few years, both in hard currencies and in Russian Roubles, for clients such as Eurochem, Holcim, Vimpelcom, VEB, and others.
Prior to HSBC he worked for Credit Agricole CIB, VTB Bank and Bank of Moscow in jobs related to Export and Trade Finance, and has over 16 years of experience in international banking.
He holds a Major in International Credit and Finance from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
Audrius Rosinas Chief Executive Officer Malakut Trade Credit
Audrius Rosinas is the Chief Executive Officer of Malakut Trade Credit.
Edward Fedorenko Managing Director Malakut Trade Credit
Edward Fedorenko has 16 years of experience in insurance, including 14 years in credit insurance.
He graduated from the Economics Faculty of the Moscow State University, the Department of “Risk Management and insurance”.
Edward is the author of several articles, essays and thesis statement on the solvency of insurance companies and on trade credit insurance. Currently acts as a visiting lecturer in the School of Masters of the Economics Faculty of the Moscow State University, the author of the course on Credit Insurance for MBA students, programme “Risk Management and Insurance”.
His career in credit insurance Edward Fedorenko started in 2002 in the Export Credit Insurance and Bonding Department of Ingosstrakh Insurance Company, being the one of the biggest Russian multiline insurers and operating since 1947. Ingosstrakh was the pioneer of credit insurance in the Soviet Union and Russia, and at that time the only insurer writing trade credit in Russia locally. Ingosstrakh supported Soviet export and had business and reinsurance connections with international credit insurance market - ECAs, private credit insurers, banks, international reinsurers.
In Ingosstrakh, in different years Edward was responsible for sales, key account management, underwriting, inward reinsurance, international cooperation with Export Credit Agencies and banks, private credit insurers.
In 2009, Edward was one of the founders of INGO-ONDD, the joint venture between Ingosstrakh and ONDD - the Belgian ECA (now Credendo Group).
In INGO-ONDD Edward headed the Insurance department, was a Chief underwriter, since 2011 – managed the whole insurance activity of INGO-ONDD as a Deputy CEO.
Natalia Demicheva Manager, Financial Support Division, Treasury Severstal
АО «Северсталь Менеджмент»/Severstal Management Казначейство, менеджер/ Treasury, manager В компании с 2001 г/in the company since 2000 2000 – 2013 –дирекция по продажам ПАО «Северсталь»финансовое сопровождение/PAO Severstal, Sales Directorate, financial support 2013. -… Treasury, manager
Joaquin Jiménez Krijgsman Director, Working Capital Solutions ING
Joaquin has 20+ years of international corporate banking and finance experience and started his career in banking in 1995 in Spain. Since then he has been in various positions and roles ranging from corporate lending, M&A, receivables securitization and cash management. Joaquin joined ING in the Netherlands in 2007 with the assignment to develop and setup Cross border Supply Chain Finance on a web based solution for large multinationals and their key suppliers. From 2010 Joaquin has been leading the further roll out of SCF solutions across the ING network to countries like Spain, Russia and Romania. In his current role at ING since 2014, Joaquin spends most of his time on custom build SCF and payment solutions for large corporates in a cross border context covering Southern Europe and Russia.
Evgeny Kravchenko Managing Director, Senior Banker, Trade Finance & Correspondent Banking Sberbank
Mr.Kravchenko brings more that 10 years of international banking experience primarily in spheres of trade and structured finance, syndications and DCM.
After spending 5 years in one of the largest Russian privately-owned banks Evgeny joined Sberbank in 2010 as a chief economist of Trade finance and documentary business Department and in his today’s position Evgeny is responsible for development of trade finance business in the whole international Group of Sberbank. In 2015, Sberbank Group completed more than $29 bln worth of trade finance and documentary business deals, including LC-based financing, ECA-covered transactions, commodity trade finance using its Swiss subsidiary bank as well as other types of transactions.
Evgeny holds BMS diploma from The Russian Foreign Trade Academy (2006) and an executive education diploma in Finance and Management for Bankers from London Business School (2016).
Nikolay Shapilov Head of Exports LogPro
Education: PhD in Economics, Russian Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 2005
Research and Teaching experience: Moscow State University, Faculty of Economics. Since 2008-2013. Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science, Research in trends of International Trade regulations, 2002-2005. Business Consulting, since 2010.
Working Experience: Sole proprietorship (International Trade Operations, Logistics) (since 2016) Head of Export JSC Sollers (Ulyanovsk Automotive Plant), Moscow, Russia (2009-2015) Head of Purchasing Department JV Isuzu (JSC Sollers), Naberegnue Chelnu City, Russia (2007 – 2009) Project manager, JSC Kosogorsky Iron Works, Tula, Russia (October 2006 — 2007) Export sales manager ZIL Automotive Plant, Moscow, Russia (2005 — October 2006) Head Inspector of Federal Customs Service of Russia, Vladivostok, Moscow, Russia. (2002 —2005)
Research works: 1. From Asian Financial Crises to depression in Russia (Russian)/ Customs Policy on the Far East of Russia- 1998.- № 3. p.19-26. 2. Euro in World Financial Crises (Russian) /Customs Policy on the Far East of Russia - 1999.- № 2. p.40-45. 3. World financial crises and Russia (English) / Materials of the Fourth International Young Scholar'’ Forum of the Asia Pacific Region Countries. Vladivostok, Russia, Festu publishing house 1999. – P. 8-9. 4. Redistribution of the capital as a factor of the volume changes in Russian-Japan trade(English) / Materials of the Third International Young Scholar'’ Forum of the Asia Pacific Region Countries. Vladivostok, Russia, Festu publishing house 2001. – P. 225-227. 5. Euro as the currency for Russian customs tariff. (Russian ) / Development of management systems. Published by professor Ispravnikova – Moscow.: Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science – 2004 – P. 215-229. 6. Current trends in international Trade (Russian) / Management problems of economics. Published by professor Ispravnikova – Moscow: Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science. – 2004 – P. 319-329.
Main skills: Project management, Personnel management, International Trade knowledge, Business strategy consulting.
Language: Russian – native, English – fluent, Spanish – basic. Japanese – basic.
Freidrich Plassmann Vice-President, Head Structured Export & Trade Finance Commerzbank Eurasia
1999 – 2003: KfW IPEX, Energy Sector 2004 – 2005 Siemens Financial Services, Export Finance Advisory 2006 – 03/2008 KfW IPEX, Petrochemical Industry 04/2008 – 05/2013: Commerzbank AG, Structured Export & Trade Finance since 06/2013: Commerzbank Eurasija SAO, Head of Structured Export &Trade Finance
Dmitry Kuryshev Chief Representative, Russia, First Vice-President Bank ABC
First Vice president/Global Trade Finance Group, Chief Representative in Moscow, ABC International Bank plc (Arab Banking Corporation Group).
Experience: 2006-2009: Moscow office, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Ltd. 2002-2006: Moscow office, London Forfaiting Company Ltd. 2000-2002: Finansbank (Moscow) 1999-2000: Bank of Moscow 1998: Bank of America NT & SA, London 1995-1998: Mezhcombank
Born in 1974. Graduated from Finance Academy attached to the Government of Russian Federation in 1996 with a degree in Finance and Banking.
Ruslan Kharlamov Founder & Managing Director Commodity Finance Group
Ruslan Kharlamov has over two decades of international trading, financing, and business development experience in the commodities space.
Ruslan is founder and managing partner of Commodity Finance Group, which helps financial institutions grow or invest in commodity trade finance. He is also founder and managing partner of Intertrade Dynamics, which helps commodity exporters leverage global markets and appropriate more value throughout the supply chain. Prior to that, Ruslan served as managing director of an international trading company with $1–$2 billion annual sales. He led the company through a period of rapid development (six- fold turnover growth in 5 years), financial crisis, and ensuing market volatility.
Ruslan’s professional interests encompass international business strategy, export and commodity finance, corporate marketing and sales, logistics and supply chain management, commercial law and risk management. He holds master’s degrees in economics (Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow) and business administration (Kingston Business School, London) and publishes articles on international trade, export development, and trade finance in several magazines. He speaks English, Russian, and French.
Konstantin Suplatov Head of Treasury & Commodities Group PwC Russia
Konstantin Suplatov is a Director with PwC Moscow leading Treasury & Commodities practice for Central and Eastern Europe including Russia.
Konstantin has over 15 years of experience in developing strategies and implementing operating models for treasury operations including policies, procedures, reporting, accounting, organisational structure, systems and controls.
Before joining Moscow office in 2014 Konstantin has worked in Amsterdam and London offices of PwC.
Konstantin is CPA and holds PhD in Economics.
Anna Gorskaya Head of Treasury DeloPorts
Anna Gorskaya is the Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury at Delo Group. In her current scope of work, Anna is responsible for relations with banks and other financial organizations, arranging appropriate funding for the Group’s projects, structuring of financial decisions, control over execution and support of changes on the realized projects, control over credit profile metrics and liquidity.
Before joining Delo, Anna Gorskaya worked in various international and large Russian companies, including Russian Sea Group, Otto Group, Group SUKDEN, as Head of Treasury, Financial Manager and Financial Controller.
Georgy Smirnov Head of Treasury Nordgold
Mr. Smirnov currently holds the position of Head of Treasury at Nord Gold. Previously he held the position of Head of Treasury at Sodrugestvo Group of Companies. Prior to that, he held various positions in the Finance Departments of X5 Retail Group and Eurochem OJSC. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) in 2002 with a degree in International Economic Relations.
Nord Gold N.V. (LSE: NORD) is an internationally diversified, pure-play gold producer strategically focused on emerging markets.
Marina Kublitskaya Advisor to CFO AO Zarubezhneft
Marina Kublitskaya is advisor to the CEO at AO Zarubezhneft.
Alexei Ozhiganov Director of Corporate Treasury OMK
Alexey Ozhiganov was born in Moscow in 1981. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Financial risk management in 2003 from the State University of management (Moscow).
Alexey held various positions during 2002-2016 in such companies as VimpelCom, SIBUR, ROLF, Intourist- Thomas Cook, OMK from Specialist, Chief expert, Project manager to his final position as Director of Corporate treasury in United metallurgical company (OMK).
He has managed several internal IT projects to automate and centralize treasury function within group of companies. His key competences are centralization and automation of treasury function, funding, banks relationships, forecasting and control of cash flows, working capital optimization and financial risk management.
Alexey regularly take part in conferences and roundtable discussions as a speaker, expert or moderator. He is always concerned with researches and reviews of best practices in Treasury and risk management. He has won in «Cash management» nomination of «Treasurer of the Year 2015» National Award of Association of Russian Corporate Treasurers (RACT).