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International Development, ESG
Development in the North America
Business Development
Oil & Gas
Certified specialist in the field of accounting according to US GAAP, IFRS and RAS.
Previously, in a 36-year career in Shell, Martin gained extensive expertise in business development throughout the Middle East, including assignments working for Dr Sultan al Jaber within the Executive Office of ADNOC, as strategy advisor to H.E. Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, the Iraqi Oil Minister, as Shell Exploration Ventures Manager for the Middle East, and as Shell's Business Opportunity Manager for the Saudi Gas Initiative. Martin established Shell's Carbon Capture and Storage Centre of Excellence in 2007, supporting the development of emerging international standards, regulations, and policy structures for safe carbon storage. He is the lead author of the Carbon Capture and Storage Methodology accepted under the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism at COP17.
Aggreko Managing Director for Eurasia
Global Sector Lead Oil & Gas
Lafarge Country CEO
MBA and Executive MBA from ESCP Business School
Director Selvino Investments
Previous positions
Managing director and Chief Operating Officer in various oil and gas major companies.
Engineer at IFP Energies Nouvelles Consultancy company.
Education :
Msc IFP School (Paris - France)
Msc Ecole des Mines (Nancy - France)
Venture Investor/Inventor and expert in ESG, renewable energy and sustainability segments.
Previously: JPMorgan Chase & Co. Global Head of Sustainability and Energy. Vice-Chairman of World Green Building Council, Co-Chair of REBNY Sustainability Committee. Head of Sustainability and Engineering at Trinity Wall Street. Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric.
MS, Manhattan College, Exec. Cert. from MIT
BEP, CEM, CEP, CEA, LEED AP
Pelco VP for EMEA.
APC, General Manager South East EMEA.
Chalmers University of Technology, research Gothenburg, Sweden.
MS from MIPT in Radio Physics.
Project Manager at Stark with a focus on managing larger projects, international M&A deals, and investments.
MS in Metallurgy and Mineral Processing Engineering.
Diploma in Engineering from TU Bergakademie Freiberg.
MBA from MSM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Entrepreneurship Development Program.
She also Chairs Planthesis - a food security and sustainability VC fund in the US and Europe. Prior to that, she was the first female CIO (Chief Investment Officer) of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable & Humanitarian Foundation after a decade as a senior investment professional with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). Prior to that, her experiences span Endeavor capital in the US, Deutsche Bank in the UK, Orascom, and France Telecom.
Managing investments totaling over $18.5 billion over the last 17 years, she has increasingly more focused on climate and sustainability investments across the spectrum.
Miray is a twice-nominated Top 100 Most Influential Women in Finance by Dow Jones Financial News for both 2015 and 2016 and an award-winning Fulbright Scholar.
She holds a Ph.D. in building sustainability-focused investment management platforms from SSBR, an MBA in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Booth), and a Bachelor of Science from the American University in Cairo. She also obtained her CFA Charter in 2010.
Barclays Capital, Executive Director,
Advisor to the President of VBRR
MBA from The Booth School of Business. The University of Chicago.
JD from MSAL.
Studied at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology School of Business.
MBA from London Business School and studies at UCLA in California.
Harvard Business School, Disruptive Strategy Course.
Previously: IBM GBS, Digital Transformation Executive.
HIS Regional Manager.
AECOM, VP for Oil & Gas, Europe.
Fugro, Regional Manager.
Halliburton, Account Executive in Landmark Graphics.
MS in International Business from the Academy of Economic Science in Bucharest (Romania). IBM Certified professional in Data Science.
Previously: Arthur D. Little, Managing Partner, Head of Global Energy & Utilities Practice.
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Partner, Head of Energy and PE practice in the Middle East.
McKinsey & Co., Partner and Head of Bahrain.
Post-Doctoral Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
PhD in Theoretical Physics, Mathematics from Utrecht University (Netherlands).
Previously: McKinsey & Co, Senior Partner, Global Leader of the Global Oil & Gas Practice. Chairman of McKinsey's Energy Insights Group.
Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands, Committee for Entrepreneurship and Financing.
Shell, Researcher.
MBA INSEAD.
MS, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) - Energy Management.
Previously: Legal Director of the holding Star Outsourcing Group.
Head of Legal Department of Eurodesign Group.
MA with Honours in Law.
MA degree in Finance and Credit.
Petra Koselka
Previously: SHELL (17 years), incl. General Manager Shell Aviation Europe, Shell Partner Downstream Business Consultancy, VP Shell Ventures.
Corporate Director Strategy and M&A in AkzoNobel.
COO at Clariter.
Senior Advisor in Carbon War Room, Rocky Mountain Institute (USA).
MBA from Harvard Business School.
Cum Laude Drs. in Economics from Tilburg University (Netherlands).
Panos E. Cavoulacos, PhD
Founding Partner at Chromium E&P.
Previously: CEO and Board Director of Hellenic Petroleum.
Chairman of the European Petroleum Industry Association and of CONCAWE.
MD at Schlumberger Business Consulting Asia.
Partner/MD at Global LNG Services.
Partner at Booz Allen Hamilton's Energy Practice.
Operating Partner at RueOne Investments.
Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company.
BS/MS in Nuclear Engineering, PhD in Energy Economics from MIT.
MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Simon Vine
Member of Investment and Risk Management Committee Alfa Bank, Co-Head of Commercial-Investment Bank (CIB), MD.
MBA, Columbia Business School.
Boris Shrayer
Investor/ Entrepreneur and Project & Business Developer primarily in commodities/energy sectors.
Previously: Morgan Stanley, MD / Head of Commodities Client Marketing, Strategy and Research.
Goldman Sachs, Fixed Income Research Analyst.
Merryll Lynch, Assistant VP Commodities Structuring.
Boris hold BS in Mathematics from MIT.
Toby Gati
Currently, Mrs. Gati is President of TTG Global LLC, a consulting firm focusing on global political and economic trends, with a special focus on US foreign policy towards Russia and Eurasia. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Angara Industries, a decarbonization tech company helping high-emission industries in the US, EU, Asia and Russia to abate millions of tons of CO2 emissions in a cost effective manner by boosting fuel efficiency. She is also Vice Chairman of The School of Civic Education, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the development of civil society in Eurasia,
For 6 years, until early March 2022, she was an Independent Member of the Board of Directors of PJSC LUKoil and a member of the company’s Strategy, Investment, Sustainability and Climate Adaptation Committee. Previously Mrs. Gati worked for 20 years as a Senior International Adviser at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLC, advising business and government clients on foreign policy issues and international relations.
She also served in high-level positions in the White House and the State Department from 1993 to 1997: in the National Security Council as Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director on Russia, Ukraine and the Eurasian States, and in the Department of State as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research (INR), where she was responsible for providing analysis of all major foreign policy issues to the Secretary of State and other high level State Department officials.
In recognition of her service to the US Government, she was presented with several awards, including:
: Department of State Distinguished Honor Award “for sustained outstanding achievement”
(May 1997)
: National intelligence Distinguished Service Medal “for distinguished meritorious service”
(May 1997)
: Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Director’s Award (July 1997)
: Theodore Roosevelt Freedom Award from the Prairie Institute for Economic Growth and Freedom (1997)
Before joining the National Security Council, she was Senior Vice President at the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) , where for two decades she ran the organization’s research on international political, security and economic issues and its Parallel Studies Programs with the Soviet Union, China, Japan and other countries.
She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Russian Literature from Pennsylvania State University and two Master’s Degrees (in Russian Language and Literature and in International Affairs) from Columbia University, as well as a Certificate from the Russian Institute. For several years, she worked as Research Assistant to Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski.
She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For many years she served on the Board of the US-Russia Business Council (USRBC) and was also a founding member of the Valdai Discussion Group, and for several years a member of the Club’s Advisory Board. She also participated in the founding meetings in the Republic of Kazakhstan of the Astana Club.
She has published many articles on American foreign policy, US-Russian relations, and on the work of the United Nations, and appeared on numerous television and radio programs.
Anton Poriadine
Previously: A.T. Kearney, Partner and Vice President.
MBA from University of Rochester, Simon Business School.
MS from Baltic State Technical University.
Ian H. Fay
Founder and Group Head at Vier Energy Capital an Energy & Infrastructure-focused strategic advisory firm (NYC).
Previously: different positions within energy and resources departments at UBS, BNP Paribas, RBC, Rothschild.
BA, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alex Karavaikin
Bain & Company, Partner.
Previously: Rosneft, Advisor to the President, VP of Investment Governance.
TNK-BP SVP, Finance & Planning & Performance Management and Investment Governance.
MBA, Harvard Business School.
Vlad Tuzov
Previously: SUEK, Chief Strategy Officer.
Honeywell UOP, Strategy and Business Development Director.
Boston Consulting Group, Principal.
Ilim Group, Deputy Director.
BS, Moscow State Technical University.
MS, Ecole Centrale Paris.
MBA, Wharton Business School.
Institute of Directors, UK.
Boris Maslov, PhD
A top patent expert in the US in energy storage.
Ener-Core, President.
Flex Power Generation, CEO.
MS, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; PhD in Electrical Engineering.
George Gogolev, PhD
Previously: RVC Fund of Funds, Head of Department.
PhD, Russian Academy of Sciences.
MA in Environmental Management, Moscow State University.
MS, Macquarie University in Sydney.
Andrew Laptev, PhD
The Chairman of Product Sustainability Committee of the World Steel Association.
MS from Moscow State University.
MS in Economics from Cambridge University.
MS in from London School of Economics.
PhD in from Cranfield University.