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Andrei has over 17 years of management consulting experience in Russia, USA and Europe managing client projects in energy and industrial goods and services industries. His consulting assignments have focused on CEO-level strategy, restructuring and business-model-innovation topics for a wide variety of companies. Since 2006, Andrej has been leading major projects for Russian government-owned corporations on their path to business growth, globalization, and efficiency improvement. Among his clients are major Russian natural monopolies that are in the middle of reform and liberalization. He holds a master's degree in economics from University of Kiel, Germany, and an executive MBA from the University of Michigan. Since December 2013, Andrej is a member of the Transportation Infrastructure Projects Development working group under the President's Economic Council of Russian Federation.

Since 2001, before joining FESCO Group, Ruslan Alikhanov was a partner at McKinsey & Co, where he headed the Russian Practice of Strategy and Corporate Finance, as well as Eastern European Practice of Corporate Management. From 1996 to 1998, Ruslan Alikhanov worked as the Project Officer at the World Bank, and from 2000 to 2001 he worked at Dell as a Strategic Business Manager. Ruslan Alikhanov has a Master of Science degree in finance and JD in international law. He graduated with honours from Texas University, University of Missouri and Baku State University.

Over thirty five years’ experience in the Express and Logistics industry. Extensive Emerging Markets experience with DHL. Adrian joined the company in Nigeria in 1994. He has held senior management positions in various functions in DHL in West Africa (Area Quality Director), Belgium (Director of Road Freight for European Emerging Markets) and Russia (as CIS Operations Manager and Russia Country Manager). Adrian has also worked for five years in the logistics industry in Saudi Arabia and was Deputy Vice President for Logistics and Procurement in a leading Russian oil company. Adrian’s interests today include aviation, equestrian sports and literature.

Luc Nadal graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (X82). He began his career as a consultant with Arthur Andersen & Cie in 1985, before joining MENSIA Conseil, specialised in strategy, management and organization consulting, in 1988. He worked as a senior consultant, then manager, and later became a partner in charge of the infrastructure and transport sector. Luc Nadal joined the SNCF in 2005 as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the CNC, which he turned around and transformed into Naviland Cargo. In 2007, he joined the Transport and Logistics branch of the SNCF and was appointed Deputy Operations Director of SNCF Freight. In 2008, the SNCF took over Geodis. Luc Nadal was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the SNCF Geodis branch in charge of the rail transport of goods and Director of Fret SNCF. He joined GEFCO as Freight Transport and Logistics Director in October 2010 and in July 2012, he took up the position of Chief Executive Officer of the GEFCO Group. Since December 2012, Luc Nadal was appointed Chairman of the GEFCO Management Board by the Supervisory Board.

General Director of Eurosib and the Corporate Centre of the Eurosib Group of Companies. Mr. Nikitin was born on September 19, 1971 in Novosibirsk. In 1993, he graduated from St. Petersburg Transport Institute with a major as a Shipment Organization and Management Engineer. In 1992, he began working for the Eurosib Group as a shipment specialist, and in 1997 he took over the development of new businesses at Eurosib. In March 2000, he was appointed General Director of the company. Following the restructuring of the business in 2002, he has been the General Director of Eurosib and the Group’s Corporate Centre.

Advisor to the President of Russian Railways, CEO of OOO Design Office OTLK, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO TransContainer and CJSC Russkaya Troyka and member of the supervisory boards of CJSC Refservice, AO Kedentransservice and GEFCO. She graduated from the Institute of the State Economy of Kazakhstan in 1990 and from Georgetown University (WDG) in 1997. She earned a Global Executive MBA (TRIUM) at New York University Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the HEC School of Management, Paris. Her career started at the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan; her most recent position is Vice-Chairman of the Committee on External Borrowing of Kazakhstan. From 1998 to 2012, she held a number of executive management positions at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London (UK), where she supervised the infrastructure and transportation sectors. In October 2012, she was appointed advisor to the President of Russian Railways, Moscow (Russian Federation). In June 2013, she was appointed head of Design Office of United Transport and Logistics Company (OTLK).