ASK Labs is a Russian company founded in 1992 that specializes in industrial automation. It has over 300 employees and locations in Moscow, Ekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk. ASK Labs helps automate industrial processes and improve efficiency through technologies like advanced process control and energy management. It has experienced significant growth, with annual revenue reaching 882 million roubles in 2008, and serves major Russian companies in industries like metals and engineering.

1. We Help Machines Make Decisions ASK Labs Company

3. Year of foundation — 1992,

4. Consolidated proceeds in 2008 – 882 million rouble,

5. Number of employees – over 300 people,

6. Compound annual growth rate - 30-35%,

7. Locations: Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Tagil,ASK Company is a part of LETA Group – an investment company in flagship information technologies (http://www.letagroup.ru). Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

8. ASK Labs Company General Information Financial Performance. Sales, million RUR Number of Employees 882,0 300 470,5 200 350,9 150 240,5 80 2005 2006 2007 2008 2005 2006 2007 2008 Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

9. Our Mission: We Help Machines Make Decisions This means that automation has to get so much smart that it could grope for the optimal operation mode and strictly follow it. Smart automation has to foresee potential failure of equipment during its operation, or defects of goods, and to eliminate them in advance. Smart automation must promptly adapt the technological process when the operation mode is changed. Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

10. Automation 2.0 Traditional automatic control systems for technological processeshave made a good showing. However, they do have limits in application.When a technological process depends on a number of variables, when relations between controlling and controllable variables are complicated and hard to describe by equations, or it gets necessary to make allowances during the process, new methods of technological process control become vital. Minimizing the operation range limits of a technological process and moving it up to the most efficient mode – here are the tasks for industrial automation at a new stage of its development. This is why we are talking about the Automation 2.0. Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

11. Key Businesses Energy Management Advanced Process Control Production Consulting Basic Industrial Automation Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

12. Advanced Process Control There is an acceptable operation range specified for any technological process.In most cases, the range of possible deviations can be quite wide, which results in overconsumption of materials and energy resources, decline of productivity and product quality degradation. Industrial automation systems primarily resolve the problem of the technological process stabilization. As to the Advanced Process Control system, it aims to reduce the deviation range for a technological process down to the lowest values. Another problem for the Advanced Process Control system to resolve is to find the optimal operation mode for the technological process, and to move the operation range up to its ultimate level of efficiency. Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

13. Energy Management ASK Labs’ scientists and engineers have designed an innovative energy saving system. In addition to standard options offered by most of the companies, our product comprises a number of innovations that allow managers to obtain prompt return on investment and further profit from the energy saving programs. Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

14. Production Consulting Modern production that uses more and more complicated equipment requires ultimate flexibility and consistency in technological process management. Technological sectorsare tightly connected, and a mere mistake within any of them, or a deviation from the optimal mode may have a considerably negative impact on productivity or product quality.This imposes special tasks on a technical director or a chief engineer. ASK Labs specialists have enough experience and qualification to meet your company’s challenge. Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

15. Basic industrial automation Competent setupof a basic industrial automation lays a secure foundation for implementing innovative solutions in technological process control or energy saving. This is the first step towards the efficient production. Over sixteen years of work, ASK Labs engineers and scientists have gained an enormous experience in setting up basic industrial automation. Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

16. ASK Labs Key Customers Scientific-Production Corporation Uralvagonzavod, Jsc http://uvz.ru/ Mechel, Jsc http://www.mechel.com/ VIZ-Stal, Llc http://www.viz-steel.ru/en Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

17. ASK Labs Key Customers VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation http://www.vsmpo.ru/ Evraz Group S.A. http://www.evraz.com/ Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works (NTMK), Llc http://www.ntmk.ru/en/ Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

18. ASK Labs Key Customers Rusal http://www.rusal.ru/en/ Tyumenenergo, Jsc http://global.te.ru/ Moscow: 11, building 2, 8thTekstilshikist., Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 Ekaterinburg: 14, Dekabristyst., Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60 Chelyabinsk: 81, Lenin st., office 702, Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21

19. Contacts Business units: 11, building 2, 8th Tekstilshikist., Moscow , Russia, 109129Tel .: +7 495 984 28 31 14, Dekabristyst., Ekaterinburg , Russia, 620026 Tel.: +7 343 254 70 60, +7 343 254 70 61 Fax: +7 343 254 69 29 81, Lenin st., office 702, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 454048Tel.: +7 351 524-81-21 E-mail: ask@ask.ru| www.ask.ru Tel.: +7 495 984 28 31 Email: ask@ask.ru