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 2010 Advisory Board members are:

Scott Antel, DLA Piper Moscow
Olga Arkhangelskaya, Ernst & Young Valuation LLC
Martin Armitstead, Wyndham Hotel Group International
Darren Blanchard, The Rezidor Hotel Group
Raj Chadnani, WATG
Petr Chitipakhovyan, CH-Group
Hank Ciaffone, Interstate Hotels & Resorts
Michael Cooper, IHG
Tony D'Avino, Questex Media
Alexis Delaroff, Accor Hospitality Russia
Marina Dunaeva, St Petersburg Government
Georg Folian, Warimpex Finanz und Beteiligungs AG
Alexander Gendelsman, Azimut Hotels
Mary Gostelow, Gostelow Report And Wow.Travel
Jeremy Heyes, WATG
Vladimir Ilichev, Hilton Worldwide
David Jenkins, Cushman & Wakefield
Christian Kielgast, Nordic Hotel Consulting
Anatoly Kondratenko, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc
Dexter Moren, Dexter Moren Associates
Thomas Noll, Hermitage Hotels & Resorts
Angelika Normann, Ernst & Young Valuation LLC
Chris Norton, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Michael O'Hare, Horwath HTL Hungary and Russia
Elizabeth Pestl, CMS Cameron McKenna
Paul Pisani, CHI Hotels & Resorts
Lisandro Platzer, JSC (Intourist Hotel Group)
Marco Rentsch, Networld Consulting Inc
Alexander Skoblo, Salans
Vladislav Smirnov, Venture Investments & Yield Management LLP
Marina Usenko, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
Paul White, Orient-Express Hotels Ltd
Jonathan Worsley, Bench Events
George Yourievsky, Conference Patron
Peter Zenneck, Jumeirah Group