Board of Directors

Russell John King was born on 17 November 1957 in the UK. He graduated from University of Durham with BA in Honours 2.1 Politics (1976 – 1979) and completed an Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School (1997).   Russell King spent over eight years at Anglo American (2001-2009). He joined Anglo American in July 2001 and served as Executive Vice President of Group Human Resources and Business Development and in April 2008 he became Chief Strategy Officer. In addition, being a member of the Executive Committee for 8 years, Russell took part in the management of a wide range of business issues e.g. strategy, finance, project evaluation, and government relations.

Previously, Russell King served over 20 years in senior roles at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), gaining world-wide experience in its fertiliser, petrochemical and paint businesses. He performed a variety of business and functional responsibilities in the UK and Australia, with ICI Plc. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Managing Director of Orica Consumer Products (formerly ICI Australia).

Mr. King served as Non-executive Director of Anglo Platinum Ltd. from 2006 to 2009. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Aggreko plc since February 2, 2009 and Spectris plc since October 20, 2010.

Lado Gurgenidze was born on 7 December 1970 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is married with four sons.

Lado received an MBA degree from Goizueta Business School of Emory University (Georgia, USA) in 1993, following his undergraduate studies at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA) and Tbilisi State University.   After a decade spent at several investment banks in Eastern Europe and London Lado Gurgenidze returned to Georgia and spearheaded, as Executive Chairman and CEO, the turnaround of Bank of Georgia. Under Lado’s leadership Bank of Georgia became the first Georgian entity and the second bank from former Soviet Union to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange (November 2006). In 2000 Lado established the first Georgian full-service investment bank, Galt & Taggart Securities, where he served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board (2004–2007). Lado also served as the member of the Supervisory Board of the Georgian Stock Exchange from 2004 until 2007.

Before returning to Georgia, Lado was the Managing Director, Head of Europe at Putnam Lovell (now part of Jefferies) in 2003-2004. Prior to Putnam Lovell, Lado served as Head of Technology Corporate Finance, Head of M&A and held other positions at ABN Amro advising such clients as Swift, Reuters, Moneyline Telerate, Marconi, News Corp, Global One, Golden Telecom and UPC.

Iain Watt, 55, is an experienced strategy consultant and international corporate line manager with a particular expertise in regulated industries and emerging markets. For over 20 years Mr. Watt has worked across Central and Eastern Europe including the CIS, most recently in the natural resources and energy sectors. He regularly advises companies from emerging markets in the communications strategies needed for accessing the international capital markets, especially around governance, risk management and corporate communications.

In New York in 2001 he co-founded IGI, an international network of communication strategy consultants and is presently Managing Director of the London-based branch. He is also a Senior Advisor to Cairneagle Associates, a boutique strategy consultancy headquartered in London. From IGI, Mr. Watt was seconded to AXA Insurance plc as Marketing Director and as a member of the UK Executive Committee. He has advised clients in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the USA including some of the world’s leading corporations in their sectors as well as governments and not-for-profit organisations.

Prior to his career as a strategy consultant, Mr. Watt enjoyed a 17 year international corporate career in various roles within finance, corporate planning, marketing and regional general management. His corporate career includes roles of progressive responsibility at Deloitte, BP, Diageo and Philip Morris International. Mr. Watt is a past Chairman of ESKEE, the International Tobacco Manufacturers Association of Greece.

Mr. Watt was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Stirling and completed Advanced Management Programmes at IMD, Lausanne where he sits on the Alumni Committee of the UK.

A speaker of several European languages, Mr. Watt and his family currently reside in the UK after years spent on international assignments.

Igor Lojevsky was born on 25 March 1957 in Omsk.

Igor did a degree in Computer Science at Omsk Polytechnical Institute (1975-1979) and then did postgraduate studies at Siberian Automobile and Road Institute. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Massachusetts at Boston (1994).   Currently Igor is Chief Country Officer, Russia and CIS at Deutsche Bank.   He joined Deutsche Bank in August 2008 from Dresdner Bank where he was Chairman of Global Banking and Capital Markets for Russia and CIS. Formerly, Igor was with Deutsche Bank as Head of Sales and Origination for Russia and the CIS with Deutsche Bank in London (2005-2007) and worked in Deutsche’s Corporate Finance team in London covering energy related clients in the Russian market (2001-2003).   In addition, Igor has been Co-Head of Investment Banking for Vneshtorgbank in Moscow (2003-2005) and has worked at the World Bank in Washington (1998-2000) covering issues on introducing energy policy in Europe and Central Asia.

Pavel Teplukhin was born on 29 April 1964 in Moscow, Russia.

 Pavel holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics and Statistics from Moscow State University and a Masters of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Pavel Teplukhin pioneered mutual investment funds and private banking industry in Russia. In 1990-1991 he was Executive Director … of one of Russia’s first private joint stock consulting companies, Academia Inc, and participated in many turnkey privatization projects. He is one of the authors of the Federal Law on mutual investment funds.

Pavel is currently the President and Chairman of the Board at Troika Dialog Asset Management. He was one of the Founders of Troika Dialog in 1991 and has been President of Troika Dialog Asset Management since 1997. On top of that, until March 2010 Dr. Teplukhin occupied the position of Managing Director of the Troika Dialog Group of Companies.

Apart from Troika Pavel Teplukhin participates in a number of corporations and business associations. He is one of the founders of the 2015 Club. On top of that, Dr. Teplukhin is Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee within the Supervisory Council of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies.

At the same time Dr. Teplukhin’s career has included close work with the government and economic think tanks. He sits on the Expert Council of the Russian Parliamentary Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets, and has worked as Economic Advisor to the Governmental Task Force on Economic Reform managed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs and as Expert Economist at the Russian-European Center of Economic Policy. For his contribution Pavel Teplukin has become a chevalier of the Tatischev Order for Service to Homeland.

Siman Povarenkin, 41, holds a Degree in Chemistry and Petroleum Chemicals from Omsk State University , Russia. In addition, he has accomplished courses in finance and banking from Academy of Economics (Moscow), Bank Tutors Institute (Frankfurt), and Intellectual Fund (Paris).   Siman has over 15 years of corporate management experience in banking and industrial sectors. He has been Chairman of the Board of GeoProMining Group from its foundation until recently.

Previously he was Chairman of the Board of Industrial Investors Group, FESCO, Russian Industrial Bank and First Vice President, Head of Investment Management Business at Incombank.

Roman Khudoliy graduated from the Leningrad State University (Russia) and holds a PhD in economics from Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He is currently Member of the Academy of Mining Sciences.   Roman has over 20 years of corporate management experience in leading industrial and mining companies of Russia and CIS countries. In addition, he has extensive working experience in leading management positions at oil and gas and industrial companies.

Previously, he worked at the Yakutugol coal holding as its Executive Director.

For the past three years Roman has been the President of the GeoProMining Group.

Sergei Nossoff, 34, graduated from the European Business School, London (UK) with BA in Finance and Economics and has accomplished an Executive MBA course from INSEAD (France). Sergei has over 13 years of experience in international business and investment banking professional and has previously worked for Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup and UC Rusal, with a reputation for consistent delivery within highly competitive global markets, including considerable experience within the CIS region, South East Asia and Europe. Particular expertise in strategy, the conception and successful execution of mergers, acquisitions and corporate disposals. Similarly strong in all aspects of the debt and equity markets, with excellent personal credibility with many of industry’s leading organisations. Creative, with clear strategic vision, excellent communication skills and a natural ability to build winning teams.

Since foundation of GeoProMining Mr Nossoff has been its First Vice-President for Strategy and Business Development.