Board of Directors
Alan Apter
Chairman
Mr. Apter was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman and a Director of the Company in May 2013. Mr. Apter joins Burisma after a 27 year career in investment banking, including spending time at Merrill Lynch, Renaissance Capital, Troika Dialog and Morgan Stanley. For much of his career Mr Apter has worked in Eastern Europe, including Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and the Balkans. Prior to investment banking, Mr. Apter was a corporate lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Apter has a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law (1982).
Devon Archer
Director
Mr. Archer was appointed as a Director of the Company in April 2014. Mr. Archer is the Co-Founder of Rosemont Seneca Partners where he has led the development of an investment platform which manages private equity, fixed income and real estate investments. Mr. Archer started his career at Citibank’s foreign direct investment group, Citicorp Asia Ltd., before serving as a Vice President at New England Financial and subsequently MetLife where he worked as a special analyst to the Strategic Management Group of both groups’ Executive Committees. Mr. Archer was the Founder and President of Sitaro LTD., a leading marketing software and services company acquired by CoActive Marketing Group (NASD – CMKG) in 2004. Mr. Archer served as a senior advisor to John Kerry during his 2004 Presidential Campaign and co-chaired the National Finance Committee. Mr. Archer is the General Partner and Chairman of Rosemont Realty which he founded together with Mr. Hunter Biden. He is also a Board Director of Burnham Financial and Wealth Assurance. Moreover, Mr. Archer is Director and Vice Chairman of Bohai Harvest RST, and is a Trustee for the Heinz Family Office. Mr. Archer earned his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and lives in New York City.
Hunter Biden
Director
Mr. Biden was appointed a Director of the Company in April, 2014. He serves as Counsel to Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP, a national law firm based in New York and is Managing Partner at Rosemont Seneca Partners and Chairman at Rosemont Seneca Advisors. Mr. Biden is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Masters Program in the School of Foreign Service. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of World Food Program USA and as a Director on the not-for-profit Boards of the Center for National Policy, the Truman National Security Project and the US Global Leadership Coalition. Mr. Biden is a member of the CSIS Executive Council on Development, the Chairman’s Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute, and the President’s Advisory Board for Catholic Charities in Washington D.C. From 2006-2009 Mr. Biden served on the Board of Directors of Amtrak, serving as Vice Chairman from 2007-2009. Mr. Biden was honored to serve as an Honorary Co-Chair of the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee and to have served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Previously, Mr. Biden was a founding member of the law firm, Oldaker, Biden and Belair, LLP, was appointed by President Clinton to serve as Executive Director of E-Commerce Policy Coordination under Secretary of Commerce William Daley and was a Senior Vice President at MBNA America Bank. He is also a member of the bar in the State of Connecticut, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Biden received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Anzelika Pasenidou
Director
Mrs. Paenidou was appointed as a Director in 2013. Previously Mrs. Paenidou was a Director of Proteas Management Limited. Mrs. Paenidou is a qualified accountant from the Professional Lyceum No. 63 of Lermontov City, Russia (1996).
Riginos Charalambous
Director
Mr. Charalambous was appointed as a Director in 2013. Prior to that, he worked at Gramarco Accounting Services Limited. Mr Charalambour has an Associateship in Accountancy from Sheffield Hallam University in England.