U.S. Embassy Representative

Jason Sheets arrived in Moscow in August 2021 and serves at the Deputy Management Counselor at the U.S. Embassy. Prior to Moscow, he served as the Management Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou, China from 2017-2020. During that time he was also the Vice Chair of school board at the American International School in Guangzhou. Jason joined the U.S. Department of State in 2005 and has also served in Beijing, Vladivostok, and London. Jason and his wife, Akiko, have three daughters attending AAS from this year. One in high school, middle school, and elementary school each. He enjoys playing tennis and taking long walks on the beach with his toy poodle named Tacos.

Canadian Embassy Representative

Minister-Counselor / Deputy Head of Mission, Canadian Embassy
Board Treasurer 

Community-At-Large Representative

President, Credit Europe Bank (Russia) Ltd.

Mr. Haluk Aydinoglu came to Russia in 2004 and immediately joined Credit Europe Bank (Russia) Ltd as Vice-President responsible for retail banking. In 2010 he was appointed to the role of President at Credit Europe Bank (Russia) Ltd. 

Before joining Credit Europe Bank, Mr. Aydinoglu  worked at McKinsey for more than 4 years in many countries, including the US, Turkey, Greece, South Africa, and most of the Middle East, mainly in consumer finance and sales force management projects. While at McKinsey, he was an active member of the Financial Institutions Group.

Prior to McKinsey, he was a product manager at Retek, a startup B2B software company currently acquired by Oracle in Atlanta, US.

Dr. Aydinoglu holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Bosphorus University, Turkey. 

Mr. Aydinoglu  is married with two daughters both attending AAS.

U.S. Embassy Representative

Jenny Palmer joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 2009.  Her overseas postings include Ecuador, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel.  Jenny has managed a range of international education programs as a Public Diplomacy Officer.  She holds a Bachelor’s in International Politics from Georgetown University.  Jenny is married to a fellow foreign service officer, Bo Palmer. They have three young children who will attend AAS in the coming years.

Community-At-Large Representative

SVP General Manager, COO PepsiCo Russia Food and Beverages

Otakar works for PepsiCo for more than 22 years. For the last 10 years he worked in several General Management positions in East Europe/Sub-Sahara region and in Russia. He arrived to Russia with his wife Michaela and their two sons in 2007, following assignments in Miami, Frankfurt and Budapest. Both sons are still attending AAS. Outside of work, Otakar is a member of the board of several global technological start-ups and enjoys practicing sports, especially golf, cycling, squash and alpine skiing.

AAS Parent Teacher Organization Chair

Julie Michaels and her husband, Eric, first began living in Moscow in the early 1990’s.

Originally from the U.S., Julie earned a BA in Slavic Languages and Literature from Northwestern University and an MA in Russian from Yale University before moving to Moscow permanently in 1995. Julie spent nearly a decade as the Owner/Director of a hospitality company in Moscow overseeing the management of several cafes, a restaurant, and a store.  She took a break from full-time work to start a family and a few years later earned an MA in Education. From 2012-2018 Julie, together with her husband and three children, lived in Surrey, where she worked as a long-term substitute teacher and volunteered at her children’s American school, serving as the parent group president for two years. Two of Julie’s children, Clayton and Abigail, joined AAS in 2020. In April 2021, Julie was elected PTO VP Internal for the 2021-2022 academic year. From September 2021 – February 2022, Julie worked at AAS as a long-term substitute teacher. After completing her teaching assignment, Julie took on the role of Interim PTO President in February 2022.

Community At-Large Representative
Business Intelligence consultant, Dell LLC Russia

Lubica has arrived in Moscow April 2019, assigned as Business Intelligence consultant at American IT company DELL. Within over eight years at DELL she has supported several international transformation projects, defining target operating models in the field of finance, sales, strategy and planning, with a recent special focus on Go-To-Market strategies in different regions world-wide.

With a diverse background and passion for cultural learning she is an active mentor for young talents and member of “Women-in-Action” organization at DELL. Before joining Dell, Lubica spent 12 years different roles in financial management, up to CFO level, at Trenkwalder, Allianz, KBC or KPMG. She has graduated from Financial Management at University of Economics in Bratislava.

Proud mom of two daughters, Tereza, student of AAS and Greta joining AAS next school year. Married to Patrik Ziman, CFO of pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, also assigned to Moscow currently.
Whole family loves Moscow, especially in winter-time, enjoys ice-skating, skiing, travelling, multi-cultural life and learning new languages.