Mr.Baliuk was born in 1963. He graduated from the National State University in the name of Taras Shevchenko. Mr.Baliuk is specialist of international relations. Also he has specialty of translator/interpreter of French. Mr.Baliuk worked as a teacher in the chair of foreign languages in the institute of Poltava. In 1990th he worked as director of the department of Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. Mr.Baliuk was the councilor of the President of Ukraine. From 2004 up to now Mr.Baliuk is a Chairman of Securities and Stock Market State Commission of Ukraine.

Brian Best is director of investment banking at Dragon Capital, having joined the company at the start of 2006 after heading another Ukrainian-based brokerage. Prior to Dragon, Brian spent six years as a partner with one of Ukraine's largest private equity funds, where he managed investment projects in the telecommunications, media, technology and FMCG sectors, and sat on the board of directors for many of the fund’s portfolio companies. One of his biggest transactions was the acquisition and consolidation of Ukraine’s largest cable television company, Volia Cable. Before Ukraine, Brian spent three years with U.S. - based investment bank Lehman Brothers.
Brian has an MBA from Thunderbird, the #1 - ranked Garvin School of International Management. He speaks fluent English and Russian.

Jaroslav Kinach, is a Member of the Board of XXI Century Investments Public Limited, Ukraine’s leading real estate investment, development and property management company. Prior to joining the Company in 2003, he was Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine. From 1995 to 1999, Mr Kinach was Ukraine Country Head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Prior to joining EBRD, he worked for more than 20 years with Canada’s Toronto Dominion Bank in several roles of increasing responsibility related to leasing, corporate and international finance. Mr Kinach holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University in New York. Mr Kinach is also a Director on the ?oards of Fabian Romania Limited, Chagala Group Limited and TAS - Kommerzbank.

The locomotive of Concorde, Igor began his investment banking career in 1997, and due to his unbridled energy and business instinct, he succeeded in making the Russian-American company Prospect Investments one of the leading brokerage companies in only three years.
In 2000-2002, Igor served as the Managing Director of Foyil Securities New Europe, he later moved on to hold the same position at MFK Investment Bank. Driven by his need for new challenges, in September 2004, Igor founded Concorde Capital in partnership with some of his closest partners.
After only one year as the head of Concorde Capital, Igor was recognized, by the publishing house Economika, as the best manager in the financial services market in Ukraine.
A graduate of the Kyiv National Economic University, he received his M.A. degree in international business and Bachelor in law. He is fluent in English and speaks Spanish.

Martin Raiser holds the position of Economic Advisor in the World Bank's Regional Office for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine in Kiyv. He leads the Bank's economic analysis work in the three countries and is team leader for the Development Policy Loan program of the World Bank in Ukraine. Mr. Raiser is also leading work on the development of a new World Bank Country Partnership Strategy for Ukraine. Prior to his assignment to Kiyv, Mr. Raiser was the World Bank's Country Manager and head of office in Uzbekistan. Mr. Raiser has previously worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he was a Director for Country Analysis and Strategy and an Editor of the annual Transition Report. Mr. Raiser holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Kiel in Germany and a MSc from the London School of Economics. He has published widely on diverse topics in economics with a particular focus on the process of economic transformation from central planning to a market economy in China, eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Robert Shetler-Jones is Chief Executive Officer of Group DF Limited. He began his business career in Kyiv in 1991 as the founder of BPI, a consultancy, offering advisory services to facilitate business between the UK and Ukraine. Between 1993 and 1994 he managed the Kyiv office of Jones East 8, the real estate agency practice and in 1994 became the joint Managing Director of DG Jones & Partners, Kyiv, one of the leading international Quantity Surveying practices. From 1998 until 2003, Mr. Shetler-Jones worked for Commonwealth Property Investors, an affiliate of AEW International, as Project Coordinator for a US$50 million private equity fund that invested in property developments in the FSU. He was General Director of Dniprovska Prystan, a property development company in Kyiv, and was responsible for managing a US$100 million residential project on behalf of UK and Ukrainian investors and subsequently a Director of Sabre Management Group, a specialist hotel development company in the FSU. Latterly, he became Managing Director of RSJ Erste GmbH, an investment company owning chemical production assets in Ukraine, Germany and Italy, including soda ash and titanium dioxide. RSJ Erste is now part of OSTCHEM Holdings, a subsidiary of GDF. He is also founder and Chairman of Scythian Limited, a consultancy advising businesses on structuring of corporate acquisitions in the Former Soviet Union.
Mr. Shetler-Jones graduated from the University of Surrey with a B.Sc. Honours, in Linguistic and International Studies in 1991. He is a fluent Russian speaker.

Ms. Elena Voloshina carries out investment promotion as well as work on certain investment projects. Prior to her appointment in December 1996, she occupied the position of Deputy Project Manager and then Project Manager for IFC’s Small-Scale Privatization Project. Ms. Voloshina’s began her career with IFC in 1992 when IFC first launched its operation in Ukraine. She graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of the Kiev State University in 1985 and upon the completion of the university’s two-year post-graduate course in 1990 was conferred a PhD degree in Linguistics.

People’s Deputy of Ukraine of ???, IV, V convocation. Hero of Ukraine. Chairman of the Board of SC “Concern Stirol”. Doctor of Economics. Full member of Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine. Professor, Director of New Management Technologies Department in Donetsk State University of Management.
Was born on August 12, 1944 in Pokotilovo village Novoarkhangelsk District Kirovograd Region. In 1969 graduated from Dnepropetrovsk Chemical-Technological Institute, specialty – Chemical Engineer. In December 1982 was appointed to the post of Dneprodzerzhinsk “Azot” Production Association Director. In April 1987 was transferred to Gorlovka “Stirol” Production Association (currently SC “Concern Stirol”). Was working in the positions of Chief Engineer, Director and Director General of Stirol. After establishing of joint stock company “Concern Stirol” in September 1995 was elected for the post the President of the Company, Chairman of the Board. Since 1998 - People’s Deputy of Ukraine.
Mr. Yankovsky is the author of 200 studies (articles, manuals), and six monographs as well.

Kamen Zahariev is Country Director for Ukraine at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development since March 2003. He is responsible for the overall development of the EBRD’s activities in Ukraine and oversees its 2 billion Euro portfolio of public and private sector loans and equity investments in the country. He previously held the position of Head of the Corporate Recovery and Litigation Team within the Legal Department of the EBRD. Kamen Zahariev has also advised EBRD management on legal and institutional aspects of EBRD’s nuclear safety programmes and acted as legal counsel for the Nuclear Safety Account and the Chernobyl Shelter Fund, managed by EBRD.

Kamen Zahariev serves on the supervisory boards of various industrial companies and investment funds in Eastern Europe. He is member of several high-level organisations of foreign investors in Ukraine such as the European Business Association and the American Chamber of Commerce. Kamen Zahariev is also actively involved in the policy dialogue with the Government of Ukraine on issues of market reforms in the energy, transport and municipal finance areas.

Kamen Zahariev has a PhD in international law from the Academy of Science, Berlin Germany and a degree in international and comparative law from the Moscow Institute of International Relations. He has over ten years of experience in international and comparative law, banking and project finance and is the author of several publications in German and English on international law and on the legal aspects of banking and finance in Central and Eastern Europe.