Born in the UK, Christopher Graham graduated from the University of Warwick in Political Science. He spent the first three years of his career working for a publishing and training company in Italy and on his return to the UK in 1984 he founded the English Worldwide group of companies.

Vladimir Pozner was born April 1, 1934, in Paris, France. He moved with his family to New York City in 1940 where he lived until late 1948, when his family moved to the Soviet-occupied zone of Berlin. In 1952 the family moved to Moscow, where he was enrolled at Moscow University and graduated in 1958 with an M.A. in biology.

Alan Broach is a partner in the tax and legal department of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Moscow. Alan focuses on advising large, multi-national corporations on their operations in Russia and central and eastern Europe.

Brook Horowitz is Executive Director of the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) in Russia. IBLF is an independent not-for-profit business association promoting responsible business practices worldwide.

Carol Patterson is managing partner of the Moscow office of Baker & McKenzie law firm, and co-managing partner of the CIS offices of the firm including St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Baku and Almaty. She has worked as a lawyer in the Moscow office since 1990, with the exception of four years from 2000-2004 in the Toronto office of Baker & McKenzie.

Luc Jones, is a Partner and the Head of Technology & Natural Resources Departments, Antal Russia Recruitment Company. He is a British & Canadian Citizen with a University Degree in Economics & Russian from the University of Portsmouth, UK (1991-1995).

Thirty year career as diplomat in New Zealand foreign service. Ambassadorial rank. New Zealand Ambassador to Russia 2003-2006.

Cynthia Gordon was invited to MTS in January 2007 for the position of Vice-President — Chief Marketing Officer.

Born on 12th April 1973 in Scarborough (Canada) of a Japanese mother and a French father. French citizen, married to a Russian wife. Lives and works in Russia from 2006, when he joined Strategy Partners.

Michele A. Berdy has lived and worked in Moscow for 30 years. She is an accomplished translator and interpreter. After graduating magna cum laude from Amherst College, she did post-graduate work at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow and then worked as a translator and editor at a Soviet publishing house (1979 to 1982).

Stuart Lawson has served as the CEO of HSBC Russia since March 2008. Simultaneous with Mr. Lawson's appointment, HSBC increased its equity in its Russian operations by $200 million to support HSBC growth and presence across all of its business sectors.

Frank Ebbecke is a German citizen, but a true Russian advertising "veteran". He came to the market as early as in 1994 as member of the "Ford Russia Launch Team", freelance consulting on building up the brand. Back then he already started to cooperate with the advertising agency Ark Thompson.

Paolo Casciato is the Dow Public Affairs Leader for Russia, Eastern Europe, Greece and Turkey. Based in Moscow since 2006, Paolo joined Dow Italia in Milan in 2001 as the Public Affairs leader for the Southern European region including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and Greece. In 2005 — 2006 he also had responsibility for European Internal Communications.

Erica Holt Fursova is the Human Resources Manager at the Anglo-American School of Moscow. She joined AAS in 2004 as the Assistant to the Deputy Director and was selected to head the newly-created human resources department in 2006.