Kyiv will playhost to a regional meeting of the World Economic Forum on 5-6 November as thecity holds the WEF’s Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Ukraine. Carried out in partnership with theUkrainian government, the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Ukraine isorganized as part of the WEF's initiative Scenarios for Ukraine’s Development withthe results of the yearlong project due to be revealed at the annual meeting inDavos in January 2014.

The President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister NikolayAzarov, other members of the government, business and academia, international organizationsand media will attend the dialogue with the President giving the keynoteaddress to over invited 150 delegates.   

SCM Group will be represented by SCM’s Director of International andInvestor Relations Jock Mendoza-Wilson,  SCM’s Director of Media BusinessDevelopment Yekaterina Lapshina and DTEK’s Chief Operating Officer Yuriy Ryzhenkov. 

Mr Mendoza-Wilson will moderate a discussion about one of the threeUkraine development scenarios prepared by government officials, businesses and experts.

JockMendoza-Wilson made the following comment on the oncomingevent:  "SCMinvests in development of its businesses, the regions where we operate andentire Ukraine. SCM Group's core assets are based in Ukraine, so we carepassionately about the social and economic development in the country and theopportunities that emerge for society and business. Ukraine cannot be a strongindependent country without a sustainable economy, an economic growth and a maturesociety. Therefore, we support the WEF's initiative focused on Ukraine todiscuss scenarios for its development."

System Capital Management is a Strategic Partner of the World EconomicForum and partner and member of the steering committee of the WEF’s StrategicDialogue on the Future of Ukraine initiative. 

Profile:

System Capital Management (SCM) is a professionalinvestor, the management company of the biggest Ukrainian financial andindustrial group focusing on mining and metals, energy and finance. The companyalso operates in other sectors including telecommunications, media, realestate, grocery retail, clay production, petroleum products retail,agriculture, heavy engineering and transportation.

SCM Group includes MetinvestHolding, DTEK, First Ukrainian International Bank, Renaissance Capital Bank,ASKA and ASKA-Life insurance companies, Vega Telecommunications Group, UkrainaMedia Group, Segodnya Multimedia publishing holding, ESTA Holding (realestate), Ukrainskiy Retail (grocery retail), UMG (clay production), Parallel(petroleum products retail), HarvEast (agriculture), Mining Machines holding,Portinvest transportation holding and others.

ChiefExecutive Officer: Oleg Popov.

SCMis fully owned by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov.

Corporatewebsite: www.scm.com.ua

Press office of SCM: press@scm.com.ua   tel:+38 062 381 52 13