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For Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Natalia
Utenkova Ivy
Lindstrom Fredericks is President & CEO of Transnational Capital
Corp., an investment bank specializing in emerging growth companies
worldwide.
Ms. Fredericks advises domestic and international companies on public and private debt and equity offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and financial restructuring. Ms. Fredericks focuses primarily on emerging growth companies in the Europe, Asia and the US. Ms. Fredericks has over 22 years of investment banking experience. Previously, she was a Managing Director of Corporate Finance with Westminster Securities and KPMG Peat Marwick. Prior to that she was in the Mergers and Acquisitions departments of Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Drexel Burnham Lambert.Ms. Fredericks received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and English from Smith College, and a Masters of International Affairs in International Business from Columbia University. She recently taught a course at New York University entitled “Privatization and Economic Reform: Focus on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”. She speaks frequently at international conferences on a variety of Corporate Finance topics. Until recently, Ms. Fredericks was on the Board of Directors of VI Group plc, a software company based in Stroud, England which trades on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market (VIG) and the American Stock Exchange (GVI).Recent Speaking Engagements include:January 25, 2005, “Investment and Corporate Governance”, Center for Business Ethics and U.S. Russia Business Forum Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia.October 27, 2004, “Securing Financing for Growth and Expansion”, The Russian Investment Project, Industrial Development Agency, London.January 27, 2004, “Investment Themes for 2004”, and “Venturing Asia” Panel, Sachs/Bloomberg Fourth Annual European Venture Capital and Private Equity Forum, Munich, Germany.March 12, 2003, “Financing the Publicly-Traded Company”, Los Angeles Venture Association Investment Capital Conference 2003, Los Angeles, California.January 28, 2003, “Investment Themes for 2003 Panel: PIPEs and Other Structured Placements”, Sachs/Bloomberg Third Annual European Venture Capital and Private Equity Forum, Munich, Germany.July 16, 2002, “Examining Today’s PIPEs Marketplace”, Institute for International Research PIPEs and Other Structured Placements Seminar, New York, New York.March 19, 2002, “PIPEs: Private Investment in Public Equities”, Strategic Research Institute Mid-Market Conference, Palm Springs, California.January 30, 2002, “Small Cap and Pre-IPO Session: Securing Financing for Growth and Expansion”, Sachs/Bloomberg Second Annual European Venture Capital Forum, Munich, Germany.November 14, 2001, “Corporate Finance in Today’s Changing Environment”, Club Empresarial, Lima, Peru.June 19, 2001, “Securing Financing for Growth and Expansion”, MBA School of Modern Management Seminar, Budapest, Hungary.May 23, 2001, “Securing Financing for Growing Companies”, Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment in Poland Conference, Warsaw, Poland. Matthew H. Murray, Chair
of the Board of the Center for Business Ethics and Corporate
Governance Matthew Murray's career has included public service in international relations (US Senate, Library of Congress); international law (Baker and McKenzie, Coudert Brothers); eight business start-ups in emerging markets (Sovereign Ventures, Inc.) and co-founding a non-governmental organization in Russia (Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance). Mr. Murray, who graduated from Columbia University with a JD and Masters in International Affairs in 1988, served as Legislative Assistant for National Security Policy to Senator Edward Kennedy from 1982-1984, a research fellow at the Library of Congress in 1981 and a research assistant for Dr. Leslie Gelb at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1979-1981. In 1991, Matthew Murray founded Sovereign Ventures, Inc., a management consultancy that specializes in dispute resolution, rule of law development services and small business incubation in Russia , the Independent States and Eastern Europe . As president, Mr. Murray helped 8 local and foreign businesses commence successful operations in the area of high technology, food-processing, family entertainment wholesale distribution, logistics, retail, fast-food chains, hotels, and real estate. Between 1998 and 2007, Mr. Murray helped resolve numerous investment disputes between US and foreign parties in the region, by providing government relations, litigation support and mediation. Mr. Murray was a member of the international legal consortium formed by the Russian Federal Financial Market Service and the European Bank for Re-construction and Development to research and write the Corporate Governance Code . Mr. Murray helped the US Department of Commerce create Business Ethics: A Manual for Managing a Responsible Business Enterprise in Emerging Market Economies , designed to help businesses in transition markets adopt ethics programs. In October 2000, Matthew Murray co-founded the Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, one of the first non-profit organizations in Russia dedicated to helping private sector companies develop ethics programs. As Chairman of the Board of the Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Mr. Murray worked with Russian and US private sector leaders, business and trade associations, NGOs and government officials on programs to help individual enterprises implement business ethics and corporate governance. Natalia Utenkova, Director, Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance. Natalia has been Director of the Center since January 2006, responsible for managing the administration of project grants, personnel and outside consultants, government relations, marketing and finance, budget and accounting issues. Natalia is a finance and accounting specialist, with advance training in IAS and GAP accounting standards. Natalya Arsenova Project coordinator, Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Patricia Dowden Ms. Dowden brings a wide range of experience in finance, marketing, systems design, organizational development, and risk management, both in the U.S. and Russia/CIS. Her 40-year career with Atlanta-based SunTrust Bank (Group Vice President) and Philadelphia-based CoreStates Bank (Senior Vice President) ended with management of a World Bank-sponsored consultancy for Russia’s largest private bank, Moscow-based Alfa Bank (1997-1998). This project organized U.S. internships for 32 Alfa managers, covering all aspects of commercial banking operations. She is a board member of Center for Citizen Initiatives, which provided U.S. internships for 6000 entrepreneurs in Russia’s regions, and in that capacity has traveled to more than two dozen Russian cities to visit small and medium businesses. She does consulting in the U.S, Russia, and Armenia, and has conducted business seminars for Russian organizations and universities in Ekaterinburg, Kazan, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. She chaired the Advisory Board of Moscow-based Sequoia Credit Consolidation, is a member of a Departmental Advisory Board of FINEC (St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance); and works with the YMCA in Yaroslavl. Ms. Dowden is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina and holds an MBA in Finance from Georgia State University. Mikhail Krapivin, Partner, Verity Advisors, Moscow An international lawyer by background, Mikhail has vast consulting experience. Prior to joining Verity Advisors LLC as a founding partner he created and headed a corporate intelligence group at a “Big 4” audit company, where his clients were predominantly Fortune 100 companies operating in Former Soviet Union countries. Mikhail has extensively worked on investment projects in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia supporting decision-making of his clients with accurate and up-to-date intelligence. Prior to his career in an investigative industry Mikhail worked as a lawyer at two leading international law firms and as an expert on policy issues at the Centre for Strategic Research, a Russian think-tank. Mikhail is known for his expertise in research and analysis techniques applicable to fraud investigations and due diligence projects. He authored a course on corporate intelligence, which he is presently teaching at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Vitali Naishul President, Institute for the Study of the Russian Economy and the Center for the Study of Russian Socio-Political Language. Vitali Naishul is an institutional economist and President of the Institute for the Study of the Russian Economy and the Center for the Study of Russian Socio-Political Language. He is a leading expert on the transition to the market economy and institution-building in post-socialist Russia, whose ideas for more than two decades have influenced both Russia’s leaders and intellectual community and educated Western scholars about Russia’s evolving economy and culture. He was the architect of the initial plan to privatize the economy, authoring in the early 1980s an underground (samizdat) publication “Another Life” on which Yeltsin-era reforms were based. He was a member of the group of young reformers who shaped Russia’s future during perestroika and until now are holding key positions in running Russian economy. And he organized a group of 18 young economists, many of whom are now leaders in both government and business in Russia, to visit Chile in 1992 to learn from their successful free market reforms. His publications include landmark works on the role of “administrative markets” in the Soviet economy, titled “The Supreme and Last Stage of Socialism”; and on the transition to the market economy: “Liberalism, Customary Rights, and Economic Reforms” and “Can the Soviet Economy Stay Left of the American? On the Limits of the Market in Soviet Conditions" (published in English by the Center for Research into Communist Economies). His earlier career was as a researcher for Gosplan, Russia’s Central Planning agency; and for the Central Mathematical Institute in Moscow. He is a graduate of the mathematical faculty of Moscow State University. Viacheslav Shironin Dr. Shironin’s post-Soviet experience has focused on business research, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME); and institutional analysis of post-Soviet (transitional) economies. He was a 2005 Fulbright Scholar (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars). He has served as Advisor to the First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation 99s Central Bank (Bank of Russia); Director, Center of SME Development (Academy of National Economy, Government of Russia); columnist for the newspaper Izvestia; Chair of the Departmental Advisory Board (FINEC, St. Petersburg University for Economics and Finance). He has also managed and participated in various international projects, including organization of surveys and interviews for the World Bank, USAID, TACIS. During perestroika, he was a member of the community of professionals who played the key role in Russian reforms of the 90s. Dr. Shironin completed graduate (1974) and postgraduate (1978) degrees,
Department of Economics, Moscow State University; and holds a Ph.D.
in computer mathematics, Computer Center USSR Academy of Sciences
(1981). |
 
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