Robert Shetler-Jones is Chief Executive Officer of Group DF Limited. He began his business career in Kyiv in 1991 as the founder of BPI, a consultancy, offering advisory services to facilitate business between the UK and Ukraine. Between 1993 and 1994 he managed the Kyiv office of Jones East 8, the real estate agency practice and in 1994 became the joint Managing Director of DG Jones & Partners, Kyiv, one of the leading international Quantity Surveying practices. From 1997 until 1999, Mr. Shetler-Jones worked for Commonwealth Property Investors, an affiliate of AEW International, as Project Coordinator for a US$50 million private equity fund that invested in property developments in the FSU. From 2000 he was General Director of Dniprovska Prystan, a property development company in Kyiv, and was responsible for managing a US$100 million residential project on behalf of UK and Ukrainian investors and subsequently a Director of Sabre Management Group, a specialist hotel development company in the FSU. Latterly, he became Managing Director of RSJ Erste GmbH, an investment company owning chemical production assets in Ukraine, Germany and Italy, including soda ash and titanium dioxide. RSJ Erste is now part of OSTCHEM Holdings, a subsidiary of GDF. He is also founder and Chairman of Scythian Limited, a consultancy advising businesses on structuring of corporate acquisitions in the Former Soviet Union.

Mr. Shetler-Jones graduated from the University of Surrey with a B.Sc. Honours, in Linguistic and International Studies in 1991. He is a fluent Russian speaker.