Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer: Lisandro Platzer

Mr. Platzer carries out the direction of operations of the Korston group and personally deals with the general management and the guidance of the daily operations of the Group main business units.

Since February 2001 he has been the General Manager of the Orlyonok Hotel Complex. Most recently the joint efforts of Mr. Platzer and his leading team have resulted in the creation of a team of top class professionals distinguished by open-minded initiative and high level of goal achievement. The general management of the Complex, the correct positioning of the hotel in the market and maintenance of high service standards, has all led to a stable growth of income. Their success makes clear the perspectives of continued development and leave no doubt in realization of these challenges.

Being in Russia since 1993, Lisandro Platzer participated in the transformation and formation of the modern hospitality industry in Russia. In 1996 he was part of the opening and operating team for the Art Hotel, an 84 room German hotel in Moscow. Mr. Platzer participated in the 1998 opening, and later lead the operations of the first 5-star hotel in the Urals, The Atrium Palace Hotel and World Trade Center in Ekaterinburg. Mr. Platzer supervised over the creation and operations of the Maritim Park Hotel in Riga, which subsequently has transferred to the German hotel corporation Maritim.

Mr. Platzer is a physicist graduated of the Russian Peoples Friendship University, in Moscow.