Colliers

Yelena Ristavaara has been appointed director of the consulting department. Ristavaara graduated from St. Michel Polytechnic University in 1997 with a B.Sc. and an MBA in strategic management and marketing. She also holds a degree from the CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) Institute acquired in 2007. Ristavaara joins Colliers from Cushman & Wakefield, Stiles & Riabokobylko where she was latter the director of consulting services department.

Cushman and Wakefield Stiles and Riabokobylko

Laszlo Vicsacsan has been appointed head of development consultancy. He has more than 13 years’ experience working in the commercial real estate business, and has previously worked as development director for Arcadom, in Hungary, on retail, commercial and PPP projects, and as project manager for the Riverside Offices in the Millennium City Center project in Budapest, Hungary. Vicsacsan speaks Hungarian, English and French and has been a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors since 2000.

Alisa Zotimova has been appointed the head of its new Russia desk within its expanding European cross-border capital markets team based in London. Zotimova will be responsible for advising on cross-border capital flows across Europe, Russia and Ukraine. In 2007 she joined the company’s London City office after working for three years in the C&W/S&R office in Moscow. She will continue to work closely with the capital markets team in Moscow.

Jones Lang LaSalle

Andrei Chertischev has been appointed national director and the head of project and development services for occupiers and a member of the senior committee of the corporate solutions group for Russia and the CIS. He will be responsible for managing and developing the company’s project management services. Chertischev has over 17 years’ experience in the construction business. Previously he was the managing director of Skanska Olson, working in both construction and project management. He holds a degree in engineering.

Kate McMurtrie has been appointed national director in the tenant representation group and a member of the senior committee of the corporate solutions group. McMurtrie and her team will advise international occupiers in Moscow and the CIS region and assist them with the search, analysis and leasehold / freehold acquisition procedures of office premises. She has 11 years of commercial real estate experience and was previously the head of Knight Frank Newmark’s tenant representation team in Moscow. McMurtrie is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Alexander Tishkov has been appointed the head of the retail agency department where he started his career 12 years ago. Tishkov will be responsible for consolidating the team and maximizing the projects portfolio. His responsibilities will cover leasing procedures, consulting clients and developers on project concepts and their eventual realization as well as following investment sales. From 1996 to 1999 Tishkov was the retail specialist with Jones Lang LaSalle. In 2001 he moved to Magazin Magazinov where he was partner and business development director. Tishkov was directly involved in more than 50 projects including such landmark schemes as Atrium, GUM, Smolensky Passage and Semya in Perm. From 2005 to 2006 Tishkov was vice-president of the Russian Council of Shopping Centers (RCSC).

PIK Group

Sergey Kanayev has been appointed first vice-president and will be responsible for the property development wing for both Russia and CIS countries. Since 1995 he has been the general director of PIK-Region (until July 2004 known as Zhilstroiindustriya), part of the PIK Group and is also a member of the board of directors of PIK. He studied at the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics, graduating in 1993.

Salans

Xavier Poulet-Mathis has joined the global real estate practice at the Moscow office and is a specialist in legal issues relating to construction projects in emerging markets, especially Russia. Previously he was head of legal affairs at Bouyguesstroi, the Russian subsidiary of Bouygues Batiment International, and before that was a legal counsel for construction projects in emerging markets for Bouygues in France. Poulet-Mathis studied at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, where he obtained a master’s degree in international commercial and trade law, graduating in 2000. He also completed a one-year internship program at the University of Leicester in the U.K. in 1993, and at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1996.

Savant

Carlos Duarte has been appointed operations manager and will be responsible for all Savant’s ongoing projects. Duarte joined Savant in 2002 and worked as a senior project manager on several major projects, including the sunflower production facilities for Bunge in Voronezh and the Volvo trucks production facilities in Kaluga.

Andrei Davydov has been appointed operations manager and will work closely with Carlos Duarte to manage the company’s ongoing projects. Davydov joined Savant in 2006 as a business manager and was involved in projects such as the extension of Sheremetyevo-2 airport, the Moscow Hotel and the Aquamarine business center as well as due diligence projects for EBRD, Deutche Bank and London and Regional Properties.

Storm Properties

Nadezhda Bashbinar has been appointed chief operations officer at Storm. She will be responsible for legal and corporate management, areas of human resources as well as a number of management and operational issues. Between 2002 and 2008 Bashbinar worked with PHI Group, a Swiss management company for Western funds where she was first head of real estate and then the COO. Bashbinar graduated from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and holds MBA and BA degrees in strategic management.

Lance Cornils has been appointed financial analyst at Storm. Previously he worked for jNetX Communications and Commerce where he was responsible for coordinating purchasing objectives and organizing reporting systems on product quotation and revenue sharing. Before moving to Russia Cornils was financial controller and project manager at A.E.C. Insulation and Builders. Cornils holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and management from Grand Valley State University.

Irina Kotlova has been appointed deputy project manager of the North-West towers project. Kotlova previously worked as a project coordinator at MIAN Group and as head of the strategic analysis development in Mosdachtrest, a subsidiary of Sistema Halls. Her projects included the coordination and restoration of a historic building on Novinsky Bulevar and the preparation of business plans for cottage communities at Serebryany Bor and Zdravnitsa.

Vester

Maxim Ulyanov has been appointed director of nationwide retail chain Vester’s southern division. Before taking up this post, Ulyanov was CEO of Maximus, a subsidiary of the Vester group. In the short term Ulyanov will be working on looking for sites for future hypermarkets, finding new tenants and getting new projects ready for launching next year. In the longer term he will be working on expanding Vester’s operations in the southern federal district. Ulyanov joined the Vester group back in 2000 and was previously executive director of Maximus.