DMITRI FAGUET is the former commercial director and director of finance of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. in Kiev, Ukraine, where he was responsible for implementing crisis management plans as well as financial analysis and scenario planning for commercial and manufacturing lines of business in the company. For many years, he was an assistant professor of mathematics and research scientist at the world-famous Akademgorodok, the scientific center in Siberia, Russia. Dr. Faguet holds an MBA degree from Cornell University. He currently resides in the London area.