Team
The Sawyer Group team, the backbone of which has been working together for more than 20 years, has successfully implemented more than 1 million square meters of retail, office, hotel and industrial projects. Active cooperation of development, consulting, Analytics, brokerage, investment and construction departments guarantees a comprehensive approach to solving problems.

Cameron Sawyer
Chairman
Mr. Sawyer holds the Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA. Mr. Sawyer was a Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellow on the Faculty of Law at the Ludwigs-Maximillians-Universitat in Munich, Germany.
Mr. Sawyer speaks German and Russian in addition to his native English.
Mr. Sawyer is a popular speaker, writer and consultant on the subject of Russian real estate, and has spoken at, and chaired a number of international conferences. Mr. Sawyer`s articles have appeared in the Estates News, Moscow Times, Moscow Tribune and others. Interviews with Mr. Sawyer have appeared in The Economist, Ekonomika i Zhizn`, Kommersant, etc. Mr. Sawyer has been appearing every year since 1995 as a guest speaker in classes in Real Estate Finance of Professors John Vogel, Bill Poorvu, Arthur Segel, and Nick Retsynis at Harvard Business School.
Mr. Sawyer together with his partners formed Sawyer Group in 1993 and served as the company’s President from 1993 to 2007. Since 2007, Mr. Sawyer has served as Chairman of the Board of the Company.
Prior to the organization of Sawyer Group, Mr. Sawyer was Deputy General Director of the Joint Venture “Perestroika”, the first commercial real estate development company in the Soviet Union and Russia.

Vera Setskaya
President, Partner
Honors Diploma in Management of Moscow State Financial-Economical Institute, 1996. Honors Graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University, 1982. Certified Commercial Investment Member. CCIM degree, 2005. Fellow Member of RICS since 2012. Ms. V. Setskaya began her real estate career in Perestroika Russian-American Joint Venture, where she held various positions including rent manager from 1989 to1993. Perestroika Joint Venture turned to be the first development company in Russia specializing in construction of “A” Class business centers and also elite residential property for rent to the largest Western corporate clients. Ms. V. Setskaya has broad experience in real estate projects organization and their management. Partner and co-founder of Sawyer Group since 1993. Ms. V. Setskaya is the Vice President of the Russian Guild of Managers and Developers in Moscow and the Member of RICS Board in Russia.

Elena Shevchuk
Vice President for Commercial Real Estate, Partner at Sawyer Group

Temuri Gelenava
Partner and Vice President of Construction
Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Moscow Electronic Engineering University, held various positions with “Mosinzhstroy”, one of the Russian leading companies for engineering infrastructure construction; worked in the Russian – American development company “Perestroika”. Joined Sawyer Group at its inception in 1993. Mr. T. Gelenava has broad experience in construction and development of a wide range of real estate projects in the office, residential, retail and hotel segments.

Lyudmila Nikolaeva
Financial Director, Partner
Lyudmila graduated Tyumen State University in 1989 with a degree in Economics.
Honors degree in Law from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, specializing in legal support of market economy, 2005.
Certified Auditor since 2003.
MBA diploma “Strategic Management and finance”, 2021 certified by the international network IQNet.
Lyudmila has profound accounting expertise at state-owned and commercial enterprises, experience in audit and finance, including service for Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Lyudmila joined the Sawyer Group team in 2007. Since 2008, she has been in the position of Financial Director.

Jeffrey Lundeen
Projects Director