Moscow Consulting Company to Move Headquarters to Irvine : Relocation: RCMI Inc. plans to hire at least one Russian-speaking person in Orange County.

A start-up management consulting company in Moscow said it will move its headquarters to Orange County later this month to help U.S. companies establish a beachhead in Russia.

On Nov. 19, RCMI Inc. will move to Irvine and turn its Moscow office into an outpost for foreign firms entering the Russian market. The company already has two full-time employees at a small office in Irvine and five Russians and Americans in Moscow.

C. Michael Brockert, RCMI’s president, said he will hire at least one Russian-speaking person in Orange County in January and more if business picks up.

RCMI, which stands for Representation Consultation Management International, has provided feasibility and market studies, translation services and acted as an agent for U.S. and European companies selling medical equipment, corporate jets and automotive parts in the former Soviet Union. It has also helped set up offices for Western companies in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Its clients, most of them small or mid-size, include two Fortune 500 companies and an Irvine commercial real estate developer.

RCMI was founded in December, 1990, by Brockert, a Costa Mesa resident, and Misha Kirakossian, a Moscow engineer-turned-businessman who is the company’s general director in Russia.