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 2009 Advisory Board members were:

Scott Antel, DLA Piper Russia
Takuya Aoyama, Hyatt International (EAME) LLC
Olga Arkhangelskaya, Ernst & Young
Philippe Bone, Russia & CIS, Accor
Raj Chandnani, WATG
Puneet Chhatwal, The Rezidor Hotel Group
Petr Chitipakhovyan, Polis Service Development
Henry Ciaffone, Interstate Management Group, Inc
Michael Cooper, IHG
Liz Crawford, Questex Media Group, Inc
Lyndall de Marco, Hotel Sustainability
Joe Denison, Cornell School of Hotel Administration
Marina Dunaeva, Committee for Investments and Strategic Projects
Peter Gee, King Sturge
Davor Gjivoje, Networld Consulting Inc
Joel Goldman, Cushman & Wakefield Hospitality EMEA
Marius Gomola, Horwath HTL Hungary and Russia
Mary Gostelow, Gostelow Report
Charles Human, HVS Hodges Ward Elliott
Ufi Ibrahim,  World Travel & Tourism Council
Vladimir Ilichev, Hilton Worldwide
David Jenkins, DTZ Hospitality Group
Christian Kielgast, Nordic Hotel Consulting
Anatoly Kondratenko, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc
Elena Lysenkova, AZIMUT Hotels Company
Markus Mayer, Mawy
Nickolay Mayger, Mayger Consulting
Dexter Moren, Dexter Moren Associates
Thomas Noll, Grand Hotel Europe
Angelika Normann, Ernst & Young Valuation LLC
Chris Norton, Ecole Hoteliere De Lausanne
Michael O'Hare, Horwath HTL Hungary and Russia
Alexey Pavlovich, Committee for Investments and Strategic Projects, St Petersburg Government
Alexander Pichel, The Astoria, Rocco Forte Collection
Paul Pisani, Corinthia Hotels & Resorts
Lisandro Platzer, Korston Hotels & Malls
Vladimir Poddubko, Rossyskiy Kredit Bank
Steven Shone, CMS Cameron McKenna
David Simons, RDS Developments
Alexander Skoblo, Salans
Katerina Udalova, UMACO Management (Katerina Hotels)
Marina Usenko, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
Kimmo Virtanen, Christie + Co
Jonathan Worsley, Bench Events
Murat Yilmaz, Capital Partners