Board of Directors

David M. Iakobachvili has served as Chairman of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since May 2001. He also serves on the board of directors of a number of businesses that he founded and developed into large agricultural, real estate and entertainment holdings. In addition he serves on the boards of a number of national and international organizations, including non-commercial partnership RusBrand, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, National Corporate Governance Council, Russian-American Business Council, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, Senate of Economic Advisers of the European Democracy Forum, World Economic Forum and Monaco World Summit.

Sergei A. Plastinin has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since May 2001. He served as the Chairman of the Management Board, which is the chief executive officer position, from 2001 to April 3, 2006. Mr Plastinin is also a founder and the CEO of a number of businesses in the agricultural, real estate and fashion industries. Mr Plastinin has served as Chairman of Council of the Russian Dairy Union since August 2000.

Gavril A. Yushvaev has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since June 2005. He also serves as the president and a member of the board of directors of a number of businesses that he founded and developed into large agricultural, real estate and entertainment holdings. 

Mikhail V. Dubinin has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since May 2001. Currently, Mr. Dubinin serves on the board of directors of several real estate companies that he founded or co-founded.

Alexander S. Orlov has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since May 2001. Between 1992 and 1997 he was director of the dairy department and the general Director of the Moscow Baby Food Plant. From 1997 to 1998, he was General Director of the Lianozovo Dairy Plant. Mr. Orlov graduated from the Moscow Technology Institute of Meat and Dairy Industry in 1975.

Guy de Selliers has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since December 2001. He received a degree in engineering in 1975 and ineconomics in 1977 at the University of Lourain. Currently, Mr. de Selliersserves as a member of the board of directors and a Chairman of the Audit Committee at Norilsk Nickel OJSC and a member of the board of directorsof furniture manufacturer Shatura OJSC and Allied Resources Inc. He is also adirector and member of the Audit Committee of Solvay S.A., a global groupof pharmaceutical and chemical companies. During 2004 and 2005, Mr. deSelliers was a member of the international supervisory board at Fortis Group, an international financial services provider and, from 2001 to 2003, he acted as Chairman of Leader Capital equity fund.During 1998 to 2000, he headed up the European business of FlemingInvestment Bank. Mr. de Selliers served as chief executive officer of MCBBL investment bank from 1997 to 1998. He was also a Deputy Vice Presidentof EBRD from 1991 to 1997.

Michael A. O'Neil has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since December 2001. He received a degree in Industrial Engineering from the College of Commerce Rathmines in 1967. Currently, Mr. O'Neil serves on the management board of Coca-Cola Icecek in Turkey. From 1989 to 2000, Mr. O'Neill held various top executive positions within the Coca-Cola Company.

Evgeny G. Yasin has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since December 2001. He graduated from the Hydrotechnical Institute in 1957 with a degree in engineering and in 1963 from Moscow State University with adegree in economics. He has been a professor of the High School of Economics, part of the Moscow State University, since July 1998. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Yasin was Russia’s Minister of the Economy.

Earnest Linwood Tipton has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since May 2002. He has served on the US International Dairy Food Association (IDFA) and its organizations for over 35 years in various posts, culminating with his appointment to President and CEO in 1983. Prior to joining IDFA, Mr Tipton worked as an economist for a milk producers' cooperative and as a dairy economic consultant. Mr. Tipton also served as an officer in the U.S. Army Finance Corp. and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Missouri.

 Jacques Vincent has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2007. Mr. Vincent also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Syngenta (Switzerland) and Yakult Honsa Co. Ltd. (Japan); and as Chairman of the BoD of Ecole Normale Superieure (Lyon). Mr. Vincent was appointed Vice-Chairman and COO of Groupe Danone in 1998. Prior to this, he was Vice-President of Fresh Dairy Products division of Groupe Danone. Having spent most of his career with the Group, he occupied various positions as general manager of certain of its subsidiaries in France, Germany, Italy and the United States in the water and dairy businesses. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris, degree in economics and a Master of Science from Stanford University.

Igor V. Kostikov has served as a member of Wimm-Bill-Dann’s Board of Directors since July 2007. Between 1992 and 1993 he served as a managing director at UK-based Friends Providence Asset Management. Between 1999 and 2000 Mr. Kostikov was Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee in the St Petersburg Administration. From 2000 to 2004 Mr. Kostikov served as Chairman of the Federal Commission of the Securities Market. He is one of the authors of the Russian Corporate Governance Code. Since 2005 Mr. Kostikov is a professor at the Moscow State University Business School, Doctor of Economics with the focus on world economy and finance and credit. Since 2006 Mr. Kostikov is CEO of Almaz Antei Thomson Broadcast. He actively participates in the work of international organizations, such as: OECD, EES, IBRD, EBRD and many others. Mr. Kostikov is the graduate of the economics department of the Leningrad University.