Kirill Ilinski joined Fusion Asset Management as Managing Partner in 2004 from JPMorgan Chase. He is Chief Investment Officer for the Fusion Group as well as Chairman for Loyal North PLC. In this capacity, he oversees all investment activities of the Group, including institutional and retail pension and investment portfolios, regional financial advice firms across the UK and corporate risk advisory business.

He earned his MSc in Physics from St-Petersburg State University and PhD in Mathematical Physics from St-Petersburg Branch of Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences

Alex joined Fitch in London in 2005 as a corporate analyst, and has held a number of different roles, most recently as Fitch’s Credit Policy Group with responsibility for monitoring the quality of global corporate ratings. He started at Fitch as an analyst specialising in Telecoms, Media and Technology, then became Head of Research for EMEA and Asia-Pacific. Between 2012 and 2016 he ran the EMEA Natural Resources team.

Prior to this, Alex spent eight years with Deloitte's audit practice, where he gained experience ranging from transaction services work to audit, IFRS transitions, expert witness assignments and sector research.

Alex read economics at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Sanchay is a Portfolio Manager within the Global Fixed Income team and is responsible for managing corporate investments in active EMD portfolios. Prior to joining LGIM, Sanchay was a credit trader at Royal Bank of Scotland for 3 years. At RBS, he made markets in Asian and European Credit across currencies as a principal risk taker from London and Singapore.

Sanchay graduated from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and holds master’s degree in Business Administration. He also holds Bachelors in Computer Engineering from University of Delhi and is a CFA Charterholder.

Kay Hope is a director and corporate credit analyst, focusing on corporates mainly in Russia, the CIS, Sub-Saharan Africa and Israel. She also covers Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues across global fixed income. Her team was ranked #1 in EEMEA Corporate Debt in the 2016-2019 Institutional Investor Research Team surveys. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, Hope held emerging markets roles at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse First Boston. She also spent several years at McKinsey & Company in Moscow, and a year in Almaty, Kazakhstan, working for an international aid organization. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Slavic literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a master’s degree in Soviet foreign policy from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is based in London.

Sergey Dergachev joined Union Investment´s fixed income portfolio management team in April 2008. As Functional Head Emerging Markets Corporate Debt and Senior Portfolio Manager, he is responsible for the emerging markets corporate bonds unit, which he has built up at Union Investment since 2009. In addition to that, Sergey plays a vital role in developing and promoting ESG themes and integration for EM debt portfolios at Union Investment. Prior to joining Union Investment, he worked at Frankfurt Trust from 2006 till 2008, as portfolio manager managing emerging markets fixed income debt portfolios (sovereign and corporate debt).

Sergey studied international business administration at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, as well as at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Rouen and the University of Westminster in London. In addition to that, Sergey is a certified chartered financial analyst (CFA), financial risk manager (FRM) and chartered alternative investment analyst (CAIA). He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Durham.

Marina joined Amundi Asset Management (previously Pioneer Investments) in 2013 to strengthen global investment strategy. Since she joined, she has been covering Financial Institutions across all Emerging Market regions, from Latin America to Asia. Recently Marina stepped up into Credit Strategy function, aiming to pinpoint dislocations across the spectrum based on top-down regional analysis, relative value and rigorous bottom-up analysis of individual credits.

Marina works closely with the Portfolio Managers, aiming to drive implementation of successful trade ideas and helps to build a link between macroeconomic and corporate research, on both sectorial and strategy level. She also brings her deep understanding of macroeconomics and politics in Russia and the FSU region to the team.

Marina has over 20 years of investment experience. Prior to joining Amundi Asset Management, she was a Director at Commerzbank Corporates & Markets, London, where she had overall responsibility for the Emerging Markets Credit Research team and provided investment recommendations on Emerging Markets Credits. Marina has also worked for Trust Investment Bank as a Senior Analyst,VP within the Fixed Income Products and Alfa-Bank as a Fixed Income Analyst. She began her career at the Central Bank of Russia as an Economist.

Marina holds a Master’s Degree in International Economics and Finance, and is FCA Approved Person under Senior Managers and Certification Regime.

Rodney Thomas is a Principal on the Emerging Markets Credit Team at Apollo. Prior to joining Apollo in 2014, Rodney spent 3 years working as a desk analyst on the Emerging Markets Credit Trading Desk at Citigroup in London. Prior to that , he was as an emerging markets credit analyst at Thames River Capital in London, where he worked from 2006 to 2011. He began his career in finance at Citigroup in 1999 and worked in loan origination and structuring. Prior to his career in finance, Rodney spent 5 years as a U.S. diplomat serving at U.S. Embassies in the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia and Yemen. Rodney has a B.A. from Amherst College in Economics and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Kaan Nazli is Senior Economist and Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Debt at Neuberger Berman. He has previous positions in ING Investment Management and Medley Global Advisors, where he was responsible for macro research and sovereign debt credit views. Before that, he worked as a research analyst for Eurasia Group where he advised financial institutions on east central Europe. He played a key role in establishing the Lehman Brothers Eurasia Group Stability Index (LEGSI), a comparative political and economic stability index designed to measure stability in more than 20 emerging markets. Kaan Nazli received a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from the University of Ankara, Turkey and earned a Master’s Degree in Political Economy from New York University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations.

Joined Polymetal in 2008 as Head of the Bank Financing department and later served as the Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations. Prior to joining Polymetal, held several roles at Ernst & Young in transaction advisory services. Career focus on corporate and project finance, capital markets and investor relations.

Graduate of St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management from Grenoble University Pierre-Mendes, France.

Polymetal is a top-10 global gold producer and top-5 global silver producer with assets in Russia and Kazakhstan. The Company combines strong growth with a robust dividend yield. Polymetal supports the UN Global Compact, EITI, CDP, Cyanide Code and Global Reporting Initiative. The Company is a constituent of Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, FTSE4Good and was ranked 1^st among 60 precious metals companies by Sustainalytics.

Polymetal has been using sustainability-linked financing instruments since 2018 and was the first company in the Russian metals and mining industry to sign the green loan in 2020.

Darina Kogan-Bellamy is the head of White & Case’s Capital Markets practice in Russia and shares her time between Moscow and London offices. She focuses on international capital markets and securities transactions and regularly represents issuers, underwriters and placement agents in a variety of Rule 144A/Regulation S equity and debt offerings. Darina has assisted major Russian companies, such as Aeroflot, ALROSA, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, SIBUR, TMK, En+ Group, HeadHunter and many more, with their important transactions on international capital markets.

In one of its editions The Legal 500 notes: "Practice head Darina Kogan-Bellamy is ‘very proactive, supportive and client-focused’, ‘easy to work with and very responsive’". Chambers Global in its 2016 – 2020 editions reports: "She is very business-oriented, very efficient, can arrange for very quick and efficient advice across jurisdictions". "She is a rainmaker and a strong US lawyer who understands Russia".

Oleg is a banking partner in Allen & Overy’s London office. He advises lenders and borrowers on a broad range of complex cross-border financing transactions, and has extensive experience in margin lending, acquisition finance and financing in emerging markets (including Russia, the CEE and the Middle East) in addition to general corporate and real estate finance.

Oleg is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” for Emerging Markets by the 2021 edition of The Legal 500 and a leading lawyer in Banking and Finance in Best Lawyers 2021 in Russia. He is also recommended in respect of Banking and Finance law in Russia according to Pravo.ru-300, Russia’s major legal directory.

• 10 years of experience in the largest banks and over 7 years experience in the field of corporate finance management

• From 2002 to 2012 he worked in large Russian and international banks (Bank of Moscow, MDM-Bank, UniCredit Bank, Nordea Bank)

• From 2012 to 2020, he ran the corporate finance and investor relations divisions of Uralkali and ChelPipe

• Since 2020, he has been the Director of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations

Angelina Valavina heads the Natural Resources & Commodities team in EMEA Corporates at Fitch Ratings. Angelina leads the team whose coverage includes oil and gas, metals and mining and chemicals and fertilisers sectors. Prior to that she was a Deputy Head of the EMEA Corporates’ Utilities and Transport team where she managed part of the team and was responsible for the transport sector and some utilities, including research and investor and media outreach.

In her previous capacity at Fitch, she had analytical responsibility for the emerging-market oil and gas portfolio for five years, and the emerging-market metals and mining portfolio before that.

Prior to joining Fitch in 2006, Angelina was in charge of auto and transport coverage, and investor outreach for this sector in the equity research team at Renaissance Capital. Before that, she was with Vnesheconombank as a senior financial analyst covering the Eurobond portfolio and corporate bond and equity portfolios for top-tier Russian companies, as well as providing analytical support to the directorate in charge of managing the pension savings of the Russian Federation. She also worked (as an intern) at Merrill Lynch (USA) in a private client group dealing with high net worth portfolios.

Angelina graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) with a B.A. in international economics with distinction. She later graduated as an MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (USA) with a 3.9 GPA in international finance.

Has started his career in 1996 as an analyst of securities market in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In 2001 he joined JSC Guta-bank (at present time known as VTB 24) where he was responsible for the ruble bond placement of bank’s clients. In 2004 – 2009 he worked in Russian subsidiaries of largest bank of Kazakhstan – Kazkommertsbank, East Kommerts and Moskommertsbank. He was responsible for clients bond placement and the supporting debt program of Moskommertsbank. From February 2010 till August 2015 – Director of CIB in Bank Otkritie where he was responsible for DCM. At present time Rostislav is Head of CIB Department.

Alexey Tretyakov - Founder & CEO Aricapital Asset Management since Jan 2013 (The First Russian fixed income mutual fund specialized on active investing in global bonds)

2008-2012 - Head of department of operations on financial markets at NOMOS-Bank

2001-2008 - Analyst, Head of fixed income reasearch, Deputy Head of sales at Bank Zenit

Natalia Nikitina is the head of banking and finance practice group in Moscow office. With White & Case since 1999, Natalia has worked on many of the major deals in Russia and the CIS. She has extensive experience representing clients in finance transactions, including asset-based financings, trade finance, acquisition finance, project finance and pre-export finance.

Recognized as a one of the leading finance lawyers in the Russian market, Natalia is praised for her legal and commercial skills by reputable legal directories, including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and others. According to clients, Natalia "always has good control over the matters, an excellent understanding of the market and helps navigating through complex matters." (Chambers Global, 2019)

Over 10 years of managerial experience in banking. Before joining Sberbank Denis headed Structured finance Department at Alfa Bank, with main focus on the arrangement of syndicated loans to largest corporate clients, on the project finance and on the structured loan solutions.

Before Alfa Bank Denis was a co-head of Bonds and Loans Origination team at Commerzbank’s Moscow office. Joined Sberbank in 2010.

Denis has an MBA degree from Emory University, Atlanta, USA.

Year And Place Of Birth

Born on May 29, 1970 in Leningrad.

Information About Vocational Education

A.B. Freeman School of Business; Tulane University, 1999; MBA degree, specialization – finance and financial management. St. Petersburg State University, 1995; Faculty of Philology.

Professional Background

1990 - 1994 - Information Technology Manager (SGS, S.A.)

1995 - 1997 - Corporate Account Manager, Xerox Corp.

1997 - 2000 - Business Consultant, Headquarters for Emerging Markets, Xerox Corp. (USA)

2001 - 2005 - Corporate Account Manager, Citibank.

2005 - 2007 - Corporate Director, ABN AMRO.

2007 - 2009 - Head of Structured Credit Products, Alfa-Bank.

2009 - 2018 - Senior Managing Director, Head of Structural Credit Products, PJSC Sberbank.

From April 2018 - Deputy Chairman of VEB.RF.

Evgeny is covering syndicated loans origination in the CEE countries for corporate and FI borrowers.

Evgeny was responsible for syndication of large number of landmark and/or debut transaction in the region, including the latest USD 4.1 billion syndicated loan facility for Norilsk Nickel.

Prior to joining ING he held various positions in Structured and Leveraged Finance teams in Moscow Narodny Bank/VTB Capital (London) in 2003-2011 and was involved in origination, structuring and syndication of a broad range of loan facilities for Russian and CIS corporate clients.

Evgeny graduated from the Moscow State Finance Academy (1999) and continued his education in London Business School (2004-2005).