SPEAKER BIOS | IN SPEAKING ORDER 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 Mikhail Lopatin is the Deputy Head of Corporate Finance & Treasury of Freight One. 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