Florian Fenner is an experienced investment manager who has directed investments in Russian securities for over 16 years. Prior to joining UFG, from 2000 to 2002, he was Head of the Unifund's Moscow office with responsibility for its Russia portfolio.

From 1996, Mr. Fenner served as Deputy Head of Research at Brunswick Brokerage, one of Russia's leading investment banks and, in 1997, he became a Russian equity Portfolio Manager for Brunswick Capital Management. Before joining Brunswick Brokerage, he worked as an investment banker for Schröder Münchmeyer Hengst Co. in their Frankfurt office. Mr. Fenner is a charted financial analyst and holds a degree in banking from Industrie-und Handelskammer in Frankfurt-am-Main (1992-1994).

Oksana Kuchura founded UFG Wealth Management in 2005, and is responsible for all client operations, with a particular focus on the development and execution of investment strategies and asset management.

Ms. Kuchura began her career in finance in 1995 in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan) with a focus on trade operations with international investment companies at Regent European Securities and Global Kazkommerts Securities. In 2001, Ms. Kuchura moved to Russia and Troika Dialog Management Company, where she was responsible for international development and marketing. In 2002, she assumed the position of Director of Sales with UFG Asset Management, and was directly responsible for raising investment for the company's offshore funds as well as working with foreign institutional investors. During her tenure with UFG Asset Management, the company's assets under management topped $1 billion.

In 2005, Ms. Kuchura identified and responded to the growing need for astute and professional structuring and management of private client assets by founding a new core business, which today is UFG Wealth Management.

Ms. Kuchura is a graduate of the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages.

Since November 22, Diana Kalyaeva has joined the UFG Wealth Management team as a partner and managing director of the legal services and banking business.

Previously, Mrs. Kalyaeva headed the Private Wealth Services Practice of PwC Legal in Russia. She has over 19 years of experience in consulting of private wealth clients. For several years, she was ranked among the best lawyers according to the international professional rating agencies Chambers and Partners HNW guide, Legal 500, Best lawyers.

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Nikolay Vargasov joined the team of UFG Wealth Management in 2014. Before that, he was employed with one of the largest Russian investment banks.

Mr. Vargasov is responsible for providing complex legal support of transactions in the international market, including M&A dealings, direct and bank financing. Mr. Vargasov provides advice on family law matters, structuring of personal and business assets, in particular through the establishment of funds and trusts in different European and offshore jurisdictions.

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Education

• The International Law Department of Nizhny Novgorod Lobachevsky State University;
• A LL.M degree by Lyon Catholic University (France).

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Sergey Belyaev joined the UFG Wealth Management team in March 2022. He leads a team of managers responsible for investing in global stock markets. The main goal is to generate stable positive income for UFG Wealth Management clients.

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Prior to joining the company, Mr.Belyaev held the position Head of the proprietary desk at Sova Capital. There he was responsible for generating trading ideas and option strategies. At VernoCapital, as a portfolio manager, he supervised the work with funds. During his five years as Executive Director of Gazprombank Asset Management, he created new investment products for a wide range of clients. Sergey has more than 15years of professional experience as buy-side analyst and portfolio manager in stock markets.

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Professional interests

• Global Stock Market

• Generation of trading ideas between sectors and assets

• Creation of investment strategies that meet theneeds of clients

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Education

 Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPHi), Degree in mathematics

Certificates: FSFM 1.0, 5.0

Aleksey Potapov is Head of Investment Department at UFG Wealth Management. He joined the UFG WM team in December 2014.

Prior to that, he was a senior portfolio manager in a private bank where he managed a securities portfolio. In 2008-2011, he worked at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange where he took part in support and development of the MICEX index family and supporting analytical indicators.

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Professional interests

• Strategy of the company's global liquid funds;
• Investment analysis.

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Education

• Master's degree at the Higher School of Economics in Financial Markets;
• FFMS qualification certificates series 1.0 and 2.0;
• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and CIPM (Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement) certificates.

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