London, United Kingdom - August 13, 2009, London, United Kingdom - Sibir Energy announces the appointment to its board of Dmitry Efimovich Bekker, Maxim Valeryevich Viktorov and Andrei Alexandrovich Martianov as non-executive directors, effective immediately.
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Mr. Bekker graduated from the Far East State University in Vladivostok in 1989 qualifying as a lawyer. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Bekker held various legal roles including Senior Inspector for the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Sakhalin region, Head of the Legal department at Joint Venture Russian-Japanese Company "Diana" and Deputy of the General Director on legal issues at the International Business Centre "LADA".
In 1994, Mr. Bekker joined the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk branch of OJSC Inkombank, initially as the chief of the law department, and ultimately served as managing director before joining OJSC Bank of Moscow in 1999 as a branch director. From 2002 to 2009, he was located in the bank's head office in Moscow where he held the positions of general director of the regional business department and the corporate business department. He is currently President of OJSC "The Central Fuel Company" in Moscow which he joined in February 2009.
Mr. Viktorov graduated magna cum laude from Moscow State University's Department of Law in 1997. As a qualified lawyer, from 1992 to 1997 he worked as Legal Assistant to the Chairman of the Moscow Region Government and in 1998 was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Regional election commission by the Governor of the Moscow Region. From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the Commission of the Expert and Consulting Council for National Security Issues of the Federal Assembly - Parliament of the Russian Federation and from 2005 to 2008 was Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council for Mass Communications in the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.
Mr. Viktorov is partner of the Legal Intelligence Group in Russia and a director and sole proprietor of Legal Intelligence Group Limited in the UK. He has acted as Chairman of The Investment Program Foundation’s Council since 1999 and currently serves as a director of two of Si bir’s subsidiaries, Moscow NPZ Holdings B.V. and OJSC "Moscow Oil and Gas Company". In addition, he is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of both the Moscow Suvorov Military School and the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and holds a number of state and public awards. He is also a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation by Presidential decree.
Mr. Martianov graduated with honours from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) in 1994 with a degree in International Economics. In 1997, he subsequently attained an Executive MBA, Postgraduate Certificate in International Business from The Graduate School of International Business of the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants ("ACCA") in the United Kingdom and a qualified Certified Public Accountant in the State of Maine, U.S.A.
Mr Martianov commenced his career with ZAO KPMG in Moscow, Russia in late 1994 where he progressed to the role of Manager in the Financial Services division. In 1999, he was admitted to the ACCA and seconded to KPMG LLP in New York, U.S.A. as a Senior Manager in Financial Services managing audit and consulting assignments for a wide range of US and international clients, before returning to ZAO KPMG in Moscow to become an Audit Par tner in Financial Services in 2006. In December 2007, he left KPMG to join the Russian Insurance Company ZAO "MAKS" and is currently an Executive Director in Moscow responsible for the management of all aspects of the company’s operating activities.
Mr. Bekker is a representative of both OJSC "The Central Fuel Company" and the Government of Moscow. Messrs Viktorov and Martianov are nominees of OJSC "The Central Fuel Company" and JSC Gazprom Neft respectively.
In addition, with immediate effect, Messrs William Guinness and Stuard Detmer have stood down from the board, and Mr. Detmer has stood down from his position as the CEO of the Company. ■