Meet the Speakers

Ma'moun Al-Hunaidi, Director, Tanmiya Management & Development Limited

Abbas Aliev, President, JSC "Hotel Development"

Scott Antel, Partner, DLA Piper

Takuya Aoyama, Vice President, Acquisitions & Development, Hyatt International (EAME) LLC

Alexander Arutyunov, President, VAO Intourist

Yann Caillère, Chief Operating Officer, Accor Hospitality EMEA, Chief Executive Officer, Sofitel WW, In charge of Hotel Design & Construction WW

Gregoir Chikaher, Director, Head of Hotels & Leisure, Arup

Henry L. Ciaffone, President-International (Retired), Interstate Hotels and Resorts

Nicholas Clayton, President, Viceroy Hotel Group

Mike Collini, Vice President Development - Northern Europe, Hilton Worldwide

Michael Cooper, Vice President Strategic Development Russia & CIS, IHG

James Corrigan, Executive Director, Head of Real Estate, VTB Capital

Guy Crawford, Chief Executive Officer, Jumeirah Group

Alexis Delaroff, Managing Director, ACCOR Russia-CIS (RMHC LLC)

Marina Dunaeva, First Deputy Chairman Committee for Investments and Strategic Projects, St Petersburg Government

Matthieu Evrard, Head of International Development , Louvre Hotels & Golden Tulip

Georg Folian, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Warimpex Finanz u Beteiligungs AG

Mikhail Alexandrovich Gavrilin, 1st Deputy General Director, Supervisory Board member, Mospromstroy

Alexander Gendelsman, Chief Executive Officer, AZIMUT Hotels Company

David Geovanis, Managing Director, London & Regional Properties LLC

John Goldwyn, Director of Planning, London, WATG

Gregory Golovkin, Representative of the Property & Tourism Team in Russia, Banker, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Marius Gomola, Managing Director, Horwath HTL Hungary & Russia

Mary Gostelow, President, Gostelow Report

Jeremy Heyes, Vice President, WATG

Arild Hovland, Senior Vice President Business Development, The Rezidor Hotel Group

Vladimir Ilichev, Director of Development - Russia & CIS, Hilton Worldwide

David Jenkins, Head of Hospitality, Russia & CIS, Cushman & Wakefield

Evgeny Kaplun, Deputy General Manager, NBB Development

Liudmila Kazanova, Vice President Sales, Marketing & Business, Interstate Management Services, Inc

Anatoly Kondratenko, Director, Acquisitions & Development, Russia & CIS, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

Dmitry Koryavov, General Director – CEO, Hotel Company

Konstantin Kuzin, Vice President, Olympstroy

Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow, .

Kenneth McLaren, Executive Vice-President, Interstate Management Services Inc.

Nickolay Moroz, Director of Development & Construction, RESO Hotel Investments LLC

Michael O’Hare, Managing Director, Horwath HTL Hungary & Russia

James Parsons, Managing Director, JW Bench

Kari Pitkin, Managing Director, EMEA Real Estate, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Vladimir Poddubko, Director Hotel Development, UNICOR

Tony Potter, Chief Executive Officer, Corinthia Hotels

Elizabeth Randall, Managing Director, STR Global

Kurt Ritter, President & CEO, The Rezidor Hotel Group

Igor Romanov, Director, Board of Directors, AZIMUT Hotels Company

Saydam Salaheddin, Managing Director, Head of CEE Real Estate and Hotels, Investment Banking, Credit Suisse

Andrew Sangster, Editor and Publisher, Hotel Analyst

Roberto Simone, Hotel Director, Silversea Six Star Cruises

Alexander Skoblo, Partner, Global Head of Hotels and Hospitality Practice Group, Salans

Alex Slesar, Executive Vice President, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Russia & CIS

Dmitry Tetiouchev, Partner, Ernst & Young

Daniel Thorniley, President, DT-Global Business Consulting

Marina Usenko, Executive Vice President, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Russia & CIS

Artem Vasyutin, Partner, Tax & Legal & Head of Hospitality Practice, ZAO Deloitte & Touche CIS

Simon Vincent, President Europe, Hilton Worldwide

Alexey Volov, Director Global Sales Russia & CIS, IHG

Dmitry Vorobyev, General Director, Real Estate Development Ltd

Paul White, President & CEO, Orient-Express Hotels

Jonathan Worsley, Chairman, Bench Events, Board Director, STR Global

Mark Wynne Smith, CEO Europe, Middle East & Africa, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels

Andrey Yakunin, Partner & CFO, VIY Management LLP

Keith Yates, Chairman and CEO, Yates and Partners

Murat Yilmaz, Director of Hotel Business Development, Capital Partners

HSH Prince George Yourievsky

Dmytro Zaruba, Deputy Head, Ukrainian State Tourism and Resorts Department