Photos -- 2002 Ninth Annual

CIS and Eastern Europe Business Forum

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Bill McNeil of ESRI explains how they developed new products for the US by subcontracting with 70 programmers in Russia. See Session 5

Early arrivals socialize at the Friday Reception. Left to right: Alan Felton, chairman and founder of Felton International (Session 4) Bill Washburn, president of Foodpro International (Session 4), and _____________

Front row: Dr.Gulbarshyn Bozheyeva (US Industry Coalition), Roza Simkhovich (Forum Coordinator and UofA Senior Lecturer), and Dr. George Gutsche (Host and UofA Russian Department Chair); back row: _____, and Talgat Bazarbekov (Embassy of Kazakhstan)

Roza Simkhovich, University of Arizona Russian Department, (standing in foreground) introduces each guest speaker while members of the UofA Russian Club help set up the computer-slide presentations.

Dr. Keat Preston explains his Lehman Brothers Eurasia Group Stability Index. See Session 1.

Luncheon introductions coordinated by Emmet McLoughlin, president of the Fair Winds Trading Company. Standing far right is Emmet questioning Dr. Andrew J. Slaski, far left, of Arizona Research Associates, who hopes to import herbal medical products and establish a homeopathic clinic in Arizona.
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Guest speakers represent governments and organizations throughout Eastern Europe-- Armenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldava, Russia, Ukraine, ... 

Five members of the U of A Russian Club helped host the forum. Left to right:
  1. Chad Nelson
  2. Sergiy Aleksandrovitch Ivanyuk
  3. Max Gefter
  4. Camille Carson
  5. Shaunda Storrmont

Eleven T-Bird Russian Club member, most are Russian-born or worked in the FSU: Left-to-right, (front row)
  1. Jarv Campbell 
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(back row) 
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  2. Rob Brunt
  3. Natasha Reoutt, President
  4. Andrey Tolkachev
  5. Anna Todorova
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