OREANDA-NEWS. November 23, 2007. According to the results of the extraordinary general meeting OAO RTM announces changes in the Company’s Board of Directors.

According to the resolution of OAO “RTM“ shareholders’ general meeting to accept two new independent members the authority of current members of the Board of Directors were terminated and the new Board was elected.
The procedure of OAO RTM’s Board of Directors restructuring was held in accordance with the 1995 Federal Joint-Stock Company Law No. 208-FZ.

The new composition of OAO RTM’s Board of Directors consists of:
Georgy Trefilov – Chairman of the Board;
Eduard Vyrypayev – Member of the Board;
Alexei Linkov — Member of the Board;
Vladimir Denisenko – Independent Member of the Board;
Nikolas Ollivant — Independent Member of the Board;
Denis Korobkov — Independent Member of the Board;
Vladimir Lopukhin — Independent Member of the Board;
Alexander Spaak — Independent Member of the Board.

Thus the number of independent members in the Board of Directors increased from three to five members: Nikolas Ollivant, Denis Korobkov, Vladimir Denisenko, Vladimir Lopukhin, Alexander Spaak.

Vladimir Lopukhin and Alexander Spaak were appointed as independent members of the OAO “RTM“ Board of Directors for the first time.

The biographies of the new members of the Board:

Vladimir Lopukhin was born in 1952.
After graduation from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1974 Vladimir Lopukhin worked in the Academy of Science of the USSR.
In 1991 Vladimir Lopukhin was appointed as Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs of the RSFSR. In the same year Vladimir Lopukhin was appointed as the Fuel and Energy Minister by the presidential decree and then as the Advisor to the Russian Government.
In 1992-1996 he held a position of Senior Advisor to “Lazar“ bank and then became the partner of the bank’s subsidiary “Lazar Eastern Europe“.
Since 1996 and till the present time he is the President of LLC “Vangvard“.

Alexander Spaak was born in 1950.
After graduation from the Dresden Technical University (Germany) in 1973 and postgraduate study at the Leningrad Electrotechnical University in 1977 he worked in the Space Research Institute by the Academy of Science of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin. Since 1998 he has been the Project Manager in the field of consulting of enterprises entering the Russian market, the Delegation of German Economics in the Russian Federation in Moscow.
Since 2004 and till present time he is the General Director of LLC “Data center of German Economics" in Moscow.