Arricano Real Estate plc

On December 12, at the meeting of the Board of Directors of Arricano Real Estate plc, Anna Chubotina was appointed to the role of CEO on an ongoing basis. Before Anna assumed the office of Arricano Director of Retail Leasing Department from March 2016. Management of Leasing Department, development and implementation of plan package for optimization of business processes of retail space lease with a view to increase the company’s profitability, creation and implementation of shopping malls’ development strategies, efficient work with the existing tenants and involvement of new ones are key areas of Anna’s work. Anna came to Arricano from JLL Ukraine where she held the office of Retail Space Department Head. She has been working for over 17 years in the field of commercial real estate 9 of which were at JLL Ukraine. Anna’s professional portfolio includes working with such large players of retail property market as SvitLand Ukraine, King Cross & Komfort Invest, Arricano Real Estate, DCH Real Estate, Kray Property and such projects as Décor Service national furniture and décor network, Sky Mall shopping mall (Kyiv), Prospekt shopping mall (Kyiv), MFC Silver Breeze (Kyiv), Magellan shopping mall, (Kharkiv), Victoria Gardens shopping mall (Lviv) and others. Anna graduated from Romano-Germanic Philology and Foreign Literature faculty of M. P. Dragomanov National Pedagogical University. Then she obtained degrees in Economics and Marketing at Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics.

Lauri Reinberg has more than 20 years of experience in financial management and planning on Eastern European real estate markets. Lauri joined the Arricano team in October 2017 as the Head of Financial Control. Prior to his role at Arricano, Lauri served as CFO of Pocopay, a large digital banking company based in Estonia. Over 14 he had been holding numerous senior finance roles at the Financial Department of Swedbank, including the CFO of Financial Restructuring and Recovery and the CFO of Swedbank’s Eastern European operations. Between 2007 and 2009, Lauri served as the CFO of Retail Real Estate S.A. in Ukraine (formerly named Expert Capital S.A.). Lauri received his Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Estonian Business School in 2002 and Bachelor of Science degree from University of Tartu in 1995. As CFO, Lauri Reinberg will oversee Arricano’s finance, accounting, financial planning & analysis, tax and treasury areas of the business.

Michalis Michael has a long professional career in business and audit services, both as a sole practitioner and as a Partner at KPMG Cyprus until his retirement last year. Michalis also has considerable experience in the Ukrainian market having been Chairman of the Cyprus-Ukraine Business Association from 2012, again until last year. Michalis formerly served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Organisation of Land Development and the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency, a Member of the Committee for the Supervision and Development of Cooperative Societies and a Member of the Board of Directors of The Cyprus University of Technology (2014-2016). Michalis is a Chartered Certified Accountant, a Fellow member of the UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus, of which he also served as a Member of the Board of Directors.

George Komodromos is a Senior Lawyer/Associate and the Head of the Financial Regulation Department at the law firm of NICOS CHR. ANASTASIADES & PARTNERS LLC, based in Limassol, Cyprus. George has over 12 years of legal experience, dealing with and advising mostly high net-worth individuals in the commercial sector. George practices several areas of law which mainly include commercial and corporate law, banking law, legal compliance, construction and property law. During his legal career, George has dealt with and been involved in numerous important projects which include inter alia joint ventures of significant value, takeovers of private equity and investment companies and the business development of financial institutions in several jurisdictions including the jurisdiction of the Republic of Cyprus. George Komodromos graduated and obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and thereafter obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M) with a specialisation in Commercial Law, from the University of Bristol (United Kingdom). He is currently a member of the Cyprus Bar Association.