Members of the 2012 Speaker Faculty included:

Graduated from the University of Martin Luther (Halle, Germany), and the Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO), Department of International Economic Affairs and Foreign Trade.
From January 2008 until June 2011 Mr. Mehlhorn worked as Chief Financial Officer of OJSC “MegaFon”.
Prior to joining MegaFon Mr. Mehlhorn worked as Chief Financial Officer for TELE2 Russia for about 2 years.
During recent 15 years Mr. Mehlhorn took executive positions in different business units of  Siemens in different countries: Germany, Italy, China, Russia.

Born in 1977. Graduated from Moscow Physical Engineering Institute with a degree in electronics in 2000.
As deputy editor-in-chief of the journal “The Art of Management” between 2000 and 2004, Mr. Lukashevich was involved in its creation and management, introducing the Russian reader for the first time to the best material from the Fast Company and Harvard Business Review – the leading worldwide publications on management.
In 2004 and 2005 Mr. Lukashevich managed the business literature department at the publishing house “Rosmen”, where he published several business bestsellers.
In 2005 at the publishers B2B Media (“Prof-Media” holding) Mikhail released the journal “Commercial Director: Sales & Marketing Management”, of which he was editor-in-chief for two years. In 2007 he created the journal “Financial Directors’ Club”, handed out to delegates of the 10th Russian Economic Forum in London. In 2008 the journal was turned into the website CFO-Russia.ru, which Mikhail is still editor-in-chief of.
Under Mr. Lukashevich’s management, in 2009-10 CFO-Russia.ru ran the feature “Lessons from the crisis: the CFO viewpoint”, culminating in the release of the book of the same name in 2011. The book, a compilation of interviews with financial directors dealing with the fight against the crisis, was presented to the audience at the CFO Summit 2011, organised by Adam Smith Conferences.