The Advisory Board is made up of key hotel industry leaders with experience from the region, who put forward their suggestions and views on topics, awards and keynote speakers. We are extremely grateful to them for their input, which is instrumental in developing a well rounded and balanced programme with topics and regional issues to be presented and discussed on panels at the conference.

The RHIC 2011 Advisory Board members are:

Ma'Moun Al-Hunaidi, Tanmiya Management & Development Ltd
Scott Antel, DLA Piper Moscow
Takuya Aoyama, Hyatt International
Martin Armitstead, Wyndham Hotel Group
Darren Blanchard, The Rezidor Hotel Group
Philippe Brisbois, IFK Hotel Management & Golden Tulip Hospitality Group
Raj Chadnani, WATG
Petr Chitipakhovyan, CH-Group
Daniel Corbett, Best Western
Alexis Delaroff, Accor
Marina Dunaeva, St Petersburg Government
Georg Folian, Warimpex Finanz und Beteiligungs AG
Alexander Gendelsman, Azimut Hotels
Davor Gjivoje, Networld, Inc
Jeremy Heyes, WATG
Demian Hodari, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Vladimir Ilichev, Hilton Worldwide
Claus-Deiter Jandel, Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts
David Jenkins, Cushman & Wakefield
Christian Kielgast, Nordic Hotel Consulting
Anatoly Kondratenko, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc
Aron Libinson, IHG
John Litzenberger, Marriott International
Ken McLaren, Interstate Management Services, Inc.
Richard Nemeth, BDO
Angelika Normann, Ernst & Young Valuation LLC
Michael O'Hare, Horwath HTL Hungary and Russia
Elizabeth Pestl, CMS Cameron McKenna
Paul Pisani, CHI Hotels & Resorts
Lisandro Platzer, Korston Group
Eugene Samartsev, Council of Tourism and Resorts of Ukraine
Alexander Skoblo, Salans
Rob Steul, Woods Bagot
Marina Usenko, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
Artem Vasyutin, Deloitte
Paul White, Orient-Express Hotels Ltd
Andrey Yakunin, Venture Investments & Yield Management LLP
George Yourievsky, Conference Patron
Peter Zenneck, Jumeirah Group