Chairman, CEO and Founder, Pamplona Capital Management

Previous career history:

1998 - 2004:

Chief Executive Officer of Alfa Bank in Russia - grew Alfa Bank ten-fold into Russia's largest privately owned bank

2002 - 2003:

General Director of Sidanco, Russia's seventh largest oil company

1995 - 1998:

President and CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston (Moscow), responsible for the firm's operations in Russia and the CIS

1985 - 1995:

Managing Director at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Bankers Trust Company and Simmons & Company

1980 - 1983:

Engineer at Schlumberger Ltd on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico

• BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University; MBA from Harvard Business School; PhD in Economics from the Russian Academy of Science
• Chartered Financial Analyst
• Board member of TNK-BP and of several Alfa Group companies