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Responsible at Interfax for financial and business information and services for business, and for the operations of the Group's international partnerships. Graduated from Moscow State University's Faculty of Journalism and worked in Foreign Broadcasting before joining Interfax in 1991, where he created the news agency's first business and finance products. Head of business and finance information at Interfax, and, from 1998, became the agency's deputy head, then first deputy head. His projects include SPARK, Russia's leading risk assessment system, and the disclosure site, www.e-disclosure.ru. Oversaw the creation of SPARK Marketing procurement analysis system, and of X-Compliance, Russia's first system for ensuring fulfillment of legislation on the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Helped set up the United Credit Bureau, a Russian market leader in credit information, and oversees the operations of the joint venture that Interfax set up with Dun & Bradstreet, a market leader for information on foreign companies. Plays an active role in the Open Government, and is a member of the Open Data Council and has served on the public councils of the Federal Tax Service and Federal State Statistics Service in recent years. He is one of the leading media industry managers, according to the Russian Managers Association TOP 1000 ranking.

Drew J. Guff is a Managing Director and founding principal of Siguler Guff & Company, LP. Siguler Guff is a global multi-strategy private equity firm managing over $10.0 billion in domestic and international private equity assets on behalf of corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals. In 1995, Drew Guff and George Siguler acquired the private equity arm of PaineWebber to form Siguler Guff. Mr. Guff launched one of the first private equity funds in Russia, Russia Partners Company, LP, in 1994. In 2005, Siguler Guff launched its first BRIC fund-of-funds dedicated to investing directly, and together with private equity firms, in the BRIC markets. Mr. Guff is a member of the Executive Board of the U.S.-Russia Business Council as well as a board member of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Guff earned an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College in 1983. He attended Leningrad State University State University in 1981.

Oleg Jelezko is the CEO and Managing Partner of the Da Vinci Capital Group and is responsible for investment strategy and group operations. He has over 23 years of investment management, banking and management consulting experience in the United Kingdom, Russia, and emerging markets. Currently, Oleg sits on the boards of several Da Vinci Capital portfolio companies – ITinvest, First Collection Bureau, IPOboard, and Alaska Originale. Prior to founding Da Vinci Capital, he served as Head of the Equity Structured Products Group and Managing Director at Renaissance Capital. Previously Oleg served as a director and COO at Credit Suisse First Boston in London, where he was responsible for Emerging Markets Equities and Derivatives. From 1992 to 1998, he worked as an IT and strategy consultant in Andersen Consulting and McKinsey & Co. in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Russia.

2005-now Chairman and CEO, VTB 24 (PJSC). 1999-2005 The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia. 2003-2005 Member of Parliament, Chairman of Subcommittee on Monetary Policy, Exchange and Capital Control, Activities of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. 1999-2003 Deputy Head of Committee on Budget and Taxes, Chairman of Subcommittee on Monetary Policy, Exchange and Capital Control, Activities of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. 1999 Special Adviser of the President of the Sberbank of the RF. 1999 Special Representative of the President of the RF on International Finance Institutions Relations. 1999 First Deputy Prime Minister of RF. 1997-1999 Minister of Finance of the RF. 1993-1997 Member of Parliament, Head of Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance, The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia.

Date of birth: December 17, 1976. In 1999, he graduated with honor from Saint-Petersburg State University, Law Faculty, with a specialization in "Jurisprudence". In 2003, he underwent professional training in the International Institute of Banking with a specialization in "Finance and Credit". Candidate of Juridical Science. He has written more than 10 academic and research articles and publications. In 2013, he published a monograph in bank crediting problems. From 1999 until 2001, he had been working in prosecution authorities as a Deputy Prosecutor in Vyborg District of Saint-Petersburg, later – a Prosecutor of – Department of Lawfulness Observance Supervision at Hearing of Civil Cases by Courts of the Prosecutor's Office of the Leningrad region. From 2001 to 2005, he had been working in commercial organizations. At the Federal Agency for State Property Management, he has been holding a position of the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management from March 2005 until August 2009. In August 2009, he was appointed to a position of the Head of Scientific Organizations Property Management. From December 2010 until March 2014 – a Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management. Since March 28, 2014 – Director of Federal and Regional Programs of PJSC "MMC "Norilsk Nickel". Pursuant to the order of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation dated April 20, 2016 No. 732-р, Dmitry Vladimirovich Pristanskov was appointed to a position of the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation – Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management. According to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was decorated with a second-class Medal of the Order of Merit for the Motherland.

Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37. Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers. Jim also embarked on a Millennium Adventure in 1999. He traveled for 3 years on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. It was his 3rd Guinness Record. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometers, which he recounted in his book Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His latest memoir Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets was published in February 2013.

In 1991 graduated from Bauman State Technical University (specialization “New Materials and Technologies”). In 1999 graduated from INSEAD business school, France (EMBA).About 20 years Mr. Strashnov held leading positions in various European companies working in the sectors of consumer goods and telecom services - Electrolux A.B., Philips Consumer Electronics Export B.V.In 2009 - 2013 - President and CEO of Tele2 Russia, Executive Vice-President Tele2 A.B.Since April 2013 holds a position of CEO, Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Post”.

Born in November 1966. Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aeronautical Engineering (1989) and Leningrad Economics and Finance Institute named after N.A. Voznesensky (1991).Doctor of Sciences in Economics. Professor of the Strategic Anti-Crisis Management Department of the Financial University under the Government of Russian Federation. Member of the Government Expert Council. From 1995 till 1997 – Deputy Chairman, then Chairman of the Board of the Joint Stock Company “Petroenergobank”; from 1997 till 1999 – Deputy General Director of Economics and Finance of the Joint Stock Company “Lenenergo”; from 1999 till 2001 - Head of the Energy Sales Department of the Russian Joint Stock Company “Unified Energy Systems of Russia”; from 2001 till 2002 – Deputy General Director, then General Director of Association “Goznak”; in 2006, after the transformation of Association “Goznak” into Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Goznak” - General Director of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Goznak”; since May 19, 2016, as a result of the reorganization of Goznak into a joint stock company, appointed as the General Director of Joint Stock Company “Goznak”.

Stefan Schaible (born in Munich, Germany in 1968) was appointed Deputy CEO within the Global Executive Committee (GEC) of Roland Berger in June 2014. He has been a member of the committee since July 2013. Schaible is also responsible for Germany and the Central European region (Switzerland, Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS countries). Stefan Schaible was a member of the Supervisory Board at Roland Berger between July 2010 and September 2013, ultimately serving as Deputy Chairman. Stefan Schaible studied Chemistry and Law at the University of Konstanz. He started his career in 1997 at Roland Berger in Hamburg and was elected partner in 2001. He has been successfully managing the Public Services Practice Group since 2004 and served as Head of the International Competence Center for Civil Economics, Energy & Infrastructure until 2014. Stefan Schaible specializes in advising public sector institutions, overseeing major infrastructure projects and bringing about digital transformation. Schaible is a renowned expert in global trends, such as the changing role of government, sustainable development, green technologies and renewable energies.

Mikhail Shamolin was born in 1970.Mr. Shamolin was appointed President of Sistema in March 2011 and previously served as President and CEO of MTS Group from May 2008 until March 2011.Mikhail Shamolin previously held the position of Vice President and Head of the "MTS Russia" business unit from August 2006.Mr. Shamolin joined MTS in July 2005 as Vice President for Sales and Customer Service, prior to which he worked at Interpipe Corp. (Ukraine) as Managing Director of the Ferroalloys Division from 2004 to 2005, and at McKinsey & Co from 1998 to 2004.Mikhail Shamolin graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation in 1993, and completed a Finance & Management course at Wharton Business School in 1997.

Yury Spektorov is a partner in Bain & Company's Moscow office and the managing partner of Bain CIS. He is an expert in Bain's Industrial Goods & Services practice and one of the leaders of the firm's Air Transportation & Services practice. Yury has more than 20 years of management consulting experience, working with senior executives and management teams to address their most pressing strategic issues. Yury has led multiple transformation projects aimed at aligning organizations with a customer-focused strategy while achieving efficient operations and cost management. He holds deep expertise in strategy, revenue management, sales, distribution, organization and restructuring initiatives. He advises multi-national and local Eastern European companies in a range of industries, including airlines, transportation, logistics, finance, oil and gas, telecom, energy, automotive, consumer products and retail. In these client engagements, he specializes in growth strategy, performance improvement, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, post-merger integration and manufacturing optimization and relocation. Yury joined Bain's Boston office in 1993 and subsequently led the launch of the firm's offices in Moscow and Kiev. He earned his MBA and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Works in the field of management and public property sales since 1994. Since the establishment in 2009 leads The Auction house of the Russian Federation, JSC -— the Russian auction marketplace for the sale of the public and private property by the means of classical and electronic trading (created by the Government of Russian Federation №1186-r dated 19.08.2009). Company holds auctions within the framework of the federal and regional privatization and auctions that sell movable property released by the Ministry of the Defence of Russian Federation. The Auction house of the Russian Federation, JSC was selected by the Russian Government to conduct the electronic trading within the confines of the privatization. Previously, for over than 9 years, Andrey Stepanenko headed the Property Fund of St. Petersburg - a regional auction platform for the sale of the state property of St. Petersburg. Earlier led the Petrograd and Vyborg district agencies of the Management Committee of the property of St. Petersburg (Russia). For labor achievements and the implementation of the procedure of public auctions in the Russian Federation was awarded with the medal "For Service to the Motherland» of the second degree. Candidate of Economic Sciences. He was born in Leningrad, graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (Russia).