Appointed to the Board: 14 March 2007
Committee membership: Remuneration
Mr Kalinin is a Senior Partner of Baring Vostok Capital Partners. He joined Baring Vostok in 1999 from Alfa Capital, where he served for six years as the Director of the Department for Direct Investments. Alexei represents the interests of Baring Vostok's funds on the Board of Directors of a wide range of portfolio companies. He has a doctorate from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, where he conducted scientific research, lectured for 12 years and served as the Director of the Youth Center for Scientific and Technical Creativity. Mr Kalinin is 51 years old.

Appointed to the Board: 14 March 2007
Mr Ivanov was Director of Oil and Gas Investments at Baring Vostok. Mr Ivanov has over 18 years experience in the oil and gas industry which includes 10 years working for the Schlumberger Group, beginning his career with Schlumberger Limited as a Field Engineer in Siberian Russia. During his time with Schlumberger he assumed various management and technical positions in Russia, the USA and the United Kingdom. He was responsible for Schlumberger’s operations in Iran, Georgia and Azerbaijan. He is the co-founder of a number of successful venture companies.  During 2009 he was appointed non-executive director of Zhaikmunai Group Limited.  Mr Ivanov holds an M.S. degree in Geophysics from Novosibirsk State University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. He is an elected member of SPE. Mr Ivanov is 41 years old.

Appointed to the Board: 12 January 2009
Mr Alves has had experience with the independent the oil and gas industry for over 20 years as one of the leading equity analysts covering the sector.  Prior to joining Volga Gas, he was head of oil and gas research for KBC Peel Hunt and was closely involved with the Company’s 2007 IPO.  He previously held positions with Investec Securities, The Bell Group International and Schroders.  He is a Member of the Securities Institute and of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain.  He read mathematics at Cambridge University between 1977 and 1983 both as an undergraduate and a post-graduate research student.  Mr Alves is 51 years old. .  He was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary and joined the Board on 12 January 2009.

Appointed to the Board: 14 March 2007
Committee membership: Audit, Nomination
Mr Calvey is a Founder and Senior Partner of Baring Vostok Capital Partners in Moscow, and a Director of Baring Private Equity International, a global private equity firm headquartered in London. Since 1994 Mr Calvey has co-led the investment team managing and has acted as the Chairman of the Investment Committee for all of Baring Vostok’s funds. Mr Calvey is currently on the Boards of several of Baring Vostok’s portfolio companies.  Prior to joining Baring Vostok, Mr Calvey worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where he was responsible for several of the bank’s investments in the oil and gas sector in Russia. Prior to his work with the bank, Mr Calvey was a member of the oil and gas team at Salomon Brothers Inc in New York on a variety of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions assignments. Mr Calvey has a M.Sc. in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics. Mr Calvey is 43 years old.