People: RusPetro PLC (RPO.L)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Christopher Clark

 71 2011 Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board

Donald Wolcott

 50 Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director

Thomas Reed

 41 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director

Olga Kushnir

 Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Controller

Alexander Chistyakov

 38 2011 Executive Director, President of Ruspetro

Alexander Bulatov

 29 2011 Head - Legal

Alexei Khomyakov

 31 Technical Director

Arthur Rastrogin

 46 2011 Executive Director - Operations

Victor Snegir

 44 2011 Commercial Director

David Wood

 44 2011 Head - Corporate Finance and Investor Relations

Adrian Harvey

 51 Company Secretary

James Gerson

 39 Non-Executive Director

Robert Jenkins

 58 Non-Executive Independent Director

Joe Mach

 63 Non-Executive Independent Director

James McBurney

 54 Non-Executive Independent Director

Rolf Stomberg

 73 Non-Executive Senior Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Christopher Clark

 Mr. Christopher Richard Nigel Clark serves as the Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Ruspetro PLC. He began his career with Johnson Matthey in 1962 and became a director of Johnson Matthey in 1990. He was appointed Chief Executive in 1998, took Johnson Matthey into the FTSE 100 in 2002, and retired two years later. Following his retirement from Johnson Matthey in 2004 he was appointed Chairman of Associated British Ports Holdings plc which was sold to a consortium of infrastructure funds in 2006. He was appointed Chairman of URENCO Limited on 1 January 2006 and Chairman of OAO Severstal, in December of 2006. On 31 December 2011, he retired as Chairman of URENCO Limited. He is a graduate in Metallurgy and studied at Marlborough College, Trinity College, Cambridge and Brunel University, London.

Donald Wolcott

 Mr. Donald Wolcott serves as the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of Ruspetro PLC. He was appointed as chief executive officer of the Company on 1 December 2011. Prior to joining RusPetro, Mr. Wolcott worked for YUKOS Oil Company from 1999 to 2005 as Senior Vice President for Production and Reservoir Performance. At YUKOS, he was responsible for all aspects of YUKOS’s production and reservoir performance business. From 1996 to 1998 Mr. Wolcott worked at Schlumberger Oil Field Services as a Manager Production Solutions and prior to that at ARCO Alaska Inc. from 1989 to 1994 as a Lead Production and Reservoir Engineer. Mr. Wolcott has a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and graduated from the University of Wyoming with degrees in petroleum engineering.

Thomas Reed

 Mr. Thomas Reed serves as the Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director of Ruspetro PLC. He was appointed as chief financial officer of the Company on 1 December 2011. Prior to joining the Group, Mr. Reed was a private equity and M&A advisor and investor based in Moscow. Mr. Reed has worked in Russia on the origination, trading, and research of equity and equity derivatives, distressed debt, and debt derivatives since 1995. Mr. Reed was an advisor to VR Capital, a distressed-debt hedge fund from 2001 to 2007, and Raven Russia, a Russian real estate investment company from 2005 to 2007. He has advised and invested in several private companies in Russia, including Gold’s Gym Moscow, Rising Star Media—Russian multiplex cinema chain, and C6 Capital, an alternative energy and emissions developer. Mr. Reed graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in Humanities with an emphasis in Philosophy and a minor in Finance.

Olga Kushnir

 Ms. Olga Kushnir serves as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Controller of Ruspetro PLC. She joined the Group as the Deputy CFO in September 2010. Previously, she held the position of Head of IFRS reporting at Promstroi Group, which is engaged in industrial construction in Russia and Kazakhstan. From 2003 until 2008 Ms. Kushnir worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Cyprus and Moscow offices as an audit consultant and as an Assistant Manager within the Energy, Utilities and Mining departments. Ms. Kushnir graduated from the All-Russia foreign trade academy in 2003 and qualified as an Associate Chartered Accountant with ICAEW in October 2006.

Alexander Chistyakov

 Mr. Alexander Chistyakov serves as the Executive Director of the Ruspetro PLC and President of Ruspetro LLC, a subsidiary of the company. He was appointed as an executive director of the Company on 1 December 2011. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Chistyakov held the position of First Deputy Chairman with the Federal Grid Company’s Management Board since 2002. Additionally, until June 2009, he held the position of First Deputy General Director of MRSK Holding. Between 2000 and 2002, Mr. Chistyakov was Director of Investment Policy and a Member of the Management of RAO UES. From 1999 to 2000, he headed the Project and Commercial Finance Department of UES. In 1998, Mr. Chistyakov was the head of the Economic Analysis Department and Deputy Director of the Financial Department at ZAO Rosprom. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director of Investment Management at MENATEP Bank, as well as Deputy General Director of Aliance Menatep. Between 1995 and 1996, Mr. Chistyakov headed the Risk Management and Commercial Transaction Financing departments at ING Eurasia Bank. Mr. Chistyakov has a Masters degree in Marketing and Finance and a PhD in Economics from the Leningrad-na-Voznesenske Finance and Economics Institute.

Alexander Bulatov

 Mr. Alexander Bulatov serves as the Head of Legal of Ruspetro PLC. He was appointed as Head of Legal of the Group in May 2011. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Bulatov held the position of Senior lawyer, head of cross-border transactions, with international cement holding company Eurocement Holding AG. Between 2005 and 2009, Mr. Bulatov was an associate at international law firm Denton Wilde Sapte and focused on corporate, commercial and financial legal support of oil and gas companies. Mr. Bulatov graduated from the Law Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Alexei Khomyakov

 Mr. Alexei Khomyakov serves as the Technical Director of Ruspetro Plc. He was appointed Technical Director of the Company in 2010. Previously, Mr. Khomyakov worked as Production Manager/E&P at Samara-Nafta in Samara, Russia and as Reservoir Engineer at Yukos EP in Moscow. Mr. Khomyakov has a Masters degree in petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Arthur Rastrogin

 Mr. Arthur Rastrogin serves as the Executive Director of Operations of Ruspetro PLC. He was appointed Executive Director of Operations in October 2011. Prior to joining the Group, Mr. Ratrogin held the position of Director, Exploration and Production at Soyuzneftegaz in Moscow. From 2002 to 2005 Mr. Rastrogin worked at TNK-BP where he was General Director, Saratov Region from 2004 to 2005. Mr. Rastrogin has an MS in Geology from Tomsk Polytechnic University.

Victor Snegir

 Mr. Victor Snegir serves as the Commercial Director of Ruspetro PLC. He was appointed Commercial Director in October 2011. Prior to joining the Group, Mr. Snegir worked at the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company from May 2003, where he was Commercial Director and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Snegir has an MSc in economics from the Belarussian State Economics University.

David Wood

 Mr. David Fain Wood serves as the Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations of Ruspetro PLC. He was appointed as Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations in November 2011 and has been a consultant to the Group since February 2011. Mr. Wood has over 20 years of corporate finance experience, most of which has been in the former Soviet Union. Prior to joining RusPetro, he was Chief Financial Officer for Amur Minerals Corporation, a Russian focused nickel exploration company which was admitted to AIM in March 2006. Mr. Wood was CFO at Concorde Oil & Gas plc from 2004 to 2007. From 1996 to 2002, he was a management consultant with Deloitte & Touche in the CIS and led their management consulting and corporate finance practices in Moscow and Almaty. Mr. Wood has a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) from cand a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.

Adrian Harvey

James Gerson

 Mr. James Gerson serves as the Non-Executive Director of Ruspetro PLC. He started his career in 1997 as a graduate trainee and then executive at NM Rothschild and Sons Ltd. He is currently Managing Director of JSC Lonburg, a St.Petersburg based advisory company. He serves on the board of several group companies of Jensen, a Russian property investment fund and asset manager. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of JSC Sestroetsk Tool Works and JSC New Era. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Gerson was Head of Investor Relations at JSC Lenenergo and then a Board Member until 2005. Mr. Gerson has a BA (Hons) in Russian and East European history from London University.

Robert Jenkins

 Mr. Robert Jenkins serves as the Independent Non-Executive Director of Ruspetro PLC. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in the UK, and has over eighteen years’ Russia related investment experience, including in the oil and gas sector. He has a previous career background in investment banking in the UK with Morgan Grenfell (Deutsche Bank) and in private equity with Charterhouse Development Capital and Midland Montagu Ventures (HSBC). Mr. Jenkins has co-managed two Russian private equity funds with the UK asset management group Framlington. He subsequently became Finance Director of a UK AIM listed Russia focused mining exploration company, Eurasia Mining, in which Framlington Russia Investment Fund invested, and then Chief Financial Officer of a Russia based oil exploration and production company, Urals Energy, prior to it becoming an AIM listed company. Mr. Jenkins was subsequently a corporate finance consultant with KPMG in Russia and in 2008 became a partner in a Russia based investment banking business, Northstar Corporate Finance, which has been active in oil and gas investment transactions in Russia.

Joe Mach

 Mr. Joe Mach serves as the Independent Non-Executive Director of Ruspetro PLC. He is the principal of Houston Consultants, an investment company based in Texas. Mr. Mach served as Vice President responsible for Exploration and Production at Yukos E&P from 1999 until 2006. Prior to Yukos Mr. Mach worked for Schlumberger from 1976 until 1999, holding various management positions with increasing levels of responsibility. When he left Schlumberger he was vice president and general manager, responsible for all aspects of a multi- productline service business. He has been an SPE member since 1970. Mr. Mach graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa in 1971 with a BS degree in petroleum engineering and later served as chairman of the University of Tulsa Petroleum Engineering Advisory Board.

James McBurney

 Mr. James Ronald Gordon McBurney serves as the Independent Non-Executive Director of Ruspetro PLC. He is CEO of HCF International Advisers Limited. Prior to joining HCF he was CEO of JNR (UK) Limited, a Rothschild family-owned merchant bank with a primary focus on natural resources and the former Soviet Union. Previously, he headed European Natural Resources investment banking at Bank of America in London, was a managing director with Merrill Lynch’s Energy & Power Group in New York, and was a vice president in M&A and Energy & Power with Goldman Sachs in New York and London. Prior to his banking career he served for five years in the US Marine Corps as both an infantry officer and as a reconnaissance officer. He was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Sears Canada Inc. in April 2010. Mr. McBurney received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA, cum laude, from Yale College.

Rolf Stomberg

 Dr. Rolf W.H. Stomberg, Ph.D. serves as the Non-Executive Senior Independent Director of Ruspetro PLC. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LANXESS AG, a global chemical company, which was formed after the reorganisation of Bayer AG. He is a Non-Executive Director of medical device producer Smith & Nephew plc, the Senior Independent Director of OAO Severstal and advises a number of German family owned companies. After his executive career of nearly 30 years with British Petroleum Co plc, where he last held the position of CEO of BP’s downstream business and Managing Director on the main board of the company, he held a number of directorships in internationally operating companies in Europe such as Reed Elsevier Group, TNT NV, Scania AB, John Mowlem plc and Management Consulting Group plc, as well as on the boards of private equity-owned companies. Mr. Stomberg has a Doctorate of economics from Hamburg University, where he also served as a lecturer. He served as honorary professor at the business school of Imperial College, London, and the Institut Francais de Petrol, Paris.

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