Mr Frappat is a French national, and has worked in Russia since 1990, when he set up an office for Avomark, a French consulting company. Although trained as a civil servant at Science-Po in Bordeaux (88), Stéphane has spent most of his carreer in the corporate sector as CFO for Burlington Holdings (a leading real-estate service provider in Moscow), General Director of Aventis Animal Nutrition for the CIS, and eventually founder and managing partner of Camden Partners, a corporate financial consultancy. Stéphane also held various positions in the Rhone-Poulenc and Aventis French offices, as well as the position of COO of Sodrugestvo in 2001-2002, and later served as Board member of the Company.