Profiles

Dmitry Khilov (Aged 51)

Chief Executive Officer

Dmitry Khilov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Finance in 1980. He has held senior positions at the Russian Ministry of Finance and at the World Bank, and was the head of the department for securities and a member of the Board of Tokobank. From 1995, he participated in the development of the United Financial Group (UFG) as Executive Director of UFG and General Director of its asset management subsidiary, UFG INVEST, later as the Managing Director of the Private Equity Division of UFG Asset Management. From 1998 to 2000, he was Deputy Chairman of Russia's Federal Commission for Securities Markets. He was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of TSG in July 2009 and succeeded Oleg Bagirov as Chief Executive Officer in October 2009.

Simon Olsen

Finance Director & Company Secretary

Simon Olsen qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Thomson McLintock, London, after graduating with a law degree from Oxford University. He spent 13 years with the Danish shipping and industrial group AP Moller in various financial and administrative roles in London, Jakarta and Manila, before moving into the mining sector in 1994, first in Sierra Leone as Financial Controller and then Chief Financial Officer of Sierra Rutile and latterly as Company Secretary of Navan Mining plc.

Oleg Bagirov

Chairman

Oleg Bagirov was educated at Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages and Financial-Economic Institute. He was Chairman of United Investment Bank, Moscow from 1994 to 2002 and previously held a number of senior positions with both Russian and international banks. Until October 2008 he was also Chief Executive Officer of OAO Sibirskiy Gorno-Metallurgichesky Alyans (SiGMA), a gold focussed exploration company, with assets held in the Kamchatka peninsula in Far East Russia. He stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of TSG in October 2009 and was elected as Chairman on 13th November 2009.

Peter Burnell

Peter Burnell was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford University. He has spent most of his business career as a senior executive and director of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa and Minorco SA. He is currently Chairman of Merrill Lynch Latin American Investment Trust plc.

Florian Fenner

Florian Fenner, a Chartered Financial Analyst, worked for Schroder Munchmeyer Hengst, a German investment bank before moving to Russia in 1996 as Deputy Head of Research at Brunswick Brokerage, one of Russia's leading investment banks. He joined Brunswick Capital Management in 1997 and was head of the representative office of Unifund before becoming Managing Partner at UFG Asset Management in 2002.

Charles Ryan

(appointed 27 April 2009) Charles Ryan is Chairman of UFG Asset Management. A graduate of Harvard University, he was an Associate and Principal Banker with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, before becoming a founder director of United Financial Group (UFG), one of Russia's leading investment companies. After UFG sold its investment banking business to Deutsche Bank in 2006, he spent two years as Chief Country Officer and CEO of Deutsche Bank in Russia and is now non-executive Chairman of Deutsche Bank in Russia. He is also a director of PGI Group Plc, the Delta Russia Fund, JSC Sovcomflot, Unifin Bank, Ozon.ru, and serves on the Capital International Inc. Advisory Board.