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About Milkiland

Board of directors

Oleg Rozhko (35) Chairman of the Board of Directors, Non-executive Director

Mr. Oleg Rozhko was born on May 26, 1977. He was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Milkiland N.V. on 22 June 2012. From January 2009 until now he has being engaged by "1, Inc." company, to serve at executive positions in its Ukrainian subsidiary DE "1, Inc. Ukraine". Based at Saint Vincent and Grenadines, "1, Inc." is a holding company investing in businesses in CIS and other countries, and performing strategic and corporate management over its portfolio companies. Before this employment, Mr. Rozhko was head of strategy and investments in several Ukrainian industrial holdings active in metals and mining, real estate, media, pipes, oil & gas, refining, food and beverages. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Kiyv-Mohyla Academy

Anatoliy Yurkevych, Ph.D. (45) Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director

Mr. Yukevych, Ph.D. in Information and Technology, is the founder of Milkiland. He occupied a position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company from 28 September 2007 and was appointed as a CEO of Milkiland N.V. on 22 June 2012. He is an entrepreneur, and has a business interests in many spheres outside the dairy sector

Olga Yurkevych (67) Chief Production Officer, Executive Director

Ms. Yurkevych, the Issuer’s Board Member since 2007. In 2000 she started in the Group as Director of Nizhyn Dairy Plant, and during 2002-03 accomplished major major turnaround and modernization of newly acquired Mena Cheese Plant. Ms. Yurkevych possesses broad managerial experience obtained during her tenure in a number of public and private companies. Prior to joining the Group she headed Financial Planning Department of Chimkent’s Regional Administration, Regional Consumer’s Association of Chimkent. Ms. Yurkevych holds Masters Degree from Lviv Trade and Economy Institute

Vyacheslav Rekov (36) Non-executive Director

Mr. Vyacheslav Rekov joined the Group in 2001 as Chief Financial Officer and then served as the Group’s President and CEO from 2003 to 2011. At 17 of June 2011 he was appointed as a Non-executive Board Member responsible for strategic acquisitions and integration of the new businesses and Investor Relations. Mr. Rekov’s prior professional experience includes positions of Deputy Director for Economics at JSC “Illichivsk Sea Fish Port”; Financial Director at JSC “Ocean Fish” Illichivsk; and Director of JSC “Odessa Bakery Plant #2”. Mr. Rekov received his Masters in Management from Odessa State Economy University

Willem van Walt Meijer, Ph.D. (52) Head of Audit Committee, Non-executive Director

Willem van Walt Meijer was appointed as non-executive Director of Milkiland N.V. in December 2010. Mr. van Walt Meijer started his career at Unilever in 1983 and spent more than 20 years there, embracing executive positions in different regional offices of Unilever, including the Netherlands, Ireland, Indonesia, and Russia. After leaving Unilever he worked for Friesland Foods as Managing Director of Cheese Division (2006-08) and Leader of Classic Dairy Division (2008). Starling from end 2008 and until now Mr. van Walt Meijer is the Board's Chairman of Midoceanbrands, one of a leading European distributor of promotional products. He holds a Doctoraal degree in Economic science from State University of Groningen, and has accomplished post graduate studies at Harvard University and Kellog School of Management

George Logush (68) Non-executive Director

George Logush was appointed as non-executive Director of Milkiland N.V. on 21 June 2013. Mr. Logush started his career in 1975 and until 1992 he was tenured Professor and then Assistant and Associate Dean at the Graduate School of Business Administration of Fordham University in New York City. At the same time held a CEO position in state health care field in USA and provided business consultancy services.
In Ukraine Mr. Logush became a founder and Country manager, first, of Reynolds Tobacco International company (1992-1994), then KPMG and then KPMG/Barents Group (1994-1995). Over 16 years from 1995 until 2011 he held a position of Corporate Vice President of Kraft Foods responsible for business in 12 countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In 2008-2012 Mr. Logush was a Board Member at Chumak, in 2011-2012 obtained a position of Vice President and Board Member at Mironivsky Khliboproduct. In 2012 he became a Vice-President for Strategy and Development of Ukrainian Catholic University and Chairman of Supervisory Board of Lviv Business School. He holds a PhD in economics, econometrics from New York University (1973), and MA in Economics from the same University (1971). Mr. Logush also accomplished several post graduate studies in Kellog School of Management

Vitaliy Strukov (39) Non-executive Director

Vitaliy Strukov was appointed as non-executive Director of Milkiland N.V. on 21 June 2013. He is a founder and Managing Director at Ukrainian investment-banking firm, VS Capital.
In 2005-2013 he was Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking at Ukrainian investment bank Concorde Capital. Mr. Strukov therefore has a wide experience of advising companies on strategy development, capitalization, M&A activity. His experience also included several positions in private sector where he worked as of Co-founder and Managing Partner at Group TT (2003-2005), investment manager at Ukrainian Opportunity Fund managed by Foyil Asset Management (1998-2001) and auditor at Arthur Andersen (1997-1998). In the state sector he was a Chairman of State Agency on bankruptcy of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine (2001-2003). He holds a MA degree in International Economic Relations from Institute of International Relations of Kiev National University named after T. Shevchenko