Appointments

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Oct. 1, 2002

NIKoil

Maarten Leo Pronk has been appointed to the newly created post of first vice president at NIKoil and has been approved by the Central Bank as first deputy board chairman at IBG NIKoil.

He will oversee key relationships with large corporate customers and the development of retail networks.

For the past year, Pronk has held the post of chief executive in charge of commercial banking. Before joining NIKoil in 2001, he worked in several South American countries for ING Bank as general manager.

Ernst & Young

Jonathan Tubb has been appointed chief operating partner of Ernst & Young in Russia and the CIS. He was previously chief financial officer and he will continue these duties while taking up the new post.

Tubb joined Ernst & Young in 1996 as financial director and was promoted to partner and CFO in October 1998. He worked for Boston-based company LTX from 1993 to 1995 as a British financial controller and for one of the big four auditing firms in Moscow as a consultant and financial director from 1995 to 1996.

Tubb is a member of the Central and East European board of directors of Ernst & Young.

Bob Akright has been named audit partner at Ernst & Young's Moscow office.

He will lead projects in the technology communications and entertainment group, as well as energy, chemicals and utilities.

From 2000 to June 2002, Akright worked at the Hong Kong office of Arthur Andersen as partner in charge of technology, communications and entertainment practice.

He became a partner in 1996 during his tenure in the CIS practice.

James Ducker has been named audit partner at Ernst & Young's Moscow office.

He will lead audit projects for energy companies.

Ducker joined Ernst & Young as an audit partner in the energy practice after the firm's office was combined with Andersen's practices in Israel. He transferred to Moscow in August.

KPMG

Graeme Finch has been appointed head of risk management and ethics and independence at KPMG Russia/CIS.

He is a partner in the firm's financial advisory services. Finch has been working for KPMG in Moscow since 1997.

Mikhail Tsarev has been appointed business unit leader for financial advisory services at KPMG Russia/CIS.

He worked for eight years for KPMG in Germany and London in corporate finance and assurance before joining KPMG Moscow in 1997. Tsarev was admitted as a partner in 2000.

Oleg Goshchansky has been promoted to partner in the assurance department at KPMG Russia/CIS.

Prior to joining KPMG Russia in 1997, he worked for five years in Germany for Coopers & Lybrand in the chemicals, transportation, retail, construction industries and leasing sectors.

RBC

Yury Mostovoi has been appointed head of RosBusinessConsulting's subsidiary in the Netherlands, RBC International.

Mostovoi is a principal of the Interval LLC investment company and a cofounder, director and shareholder of the Supercompilers LLC high-tech company. Before that, he was global head of quantitative fixed income research at Barclays Capital.

SPAR

Thomas Hora has been appointed general manager at SPAR in Moscow and the Moscow region.

He previously worked at Austrian SPAR International, becoming general manager in 1998.

TDK

Alexander Tkachenko has been appointed chief representative of TDK Recording Media Europe SA in Moscow.

Tkachenko joined TDK in 1997 in Luxembourg as a manager for the CIS sales and marketing department. From 1998 to 2000, he was a product manager for audio-video products and batteries in Europe. From 2001, he was a deputy manager of the CIS sales and marketing department.

Antal

Richard Gaulier has been appointed team manager at the Antal International executive recruitment agency in Moscow.

Gaulier set up and managed Antal's office in Kiev as country manager for Ukraine in 1997. In 1998, he relocated to Paris, where he managed Antal's French business.

Tremayne Elson has been appointed managing director at Antal.

Elson set up local operations in 1994 and took direct control of building the business through 1998, when he was promoted to group deputy managing director in Frankfurt and responsible for Russia and Central Europe.

Luc Jones has been appointed manager at Antal.

He joined Antal Warsaw in 1998. He recently worked for U.S. multinational Siebel before rejoining Antal in Moscow.

Elsa Weills has been appointed head of client services at Antal and will focus on French-speaking clients.

She previously was a co-founder and public relations director at Gnash Communications, a London-based PR agency, and PR director at Mmd Russia.

Natasha Mirskaya has been appointed recruitment consultant at Antal.

She earlier worked as sales and marketing manager with Brasserie du Soleil and as events manager with the Ametist PR and events company.

Alex Williams has been appointed consultant at Antal.

He has worked at the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, liaising with foreign investors into Russia.

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