Management

2000 — 2001 — General Director, Kovdor Mining and Beneficiation Complex
2001 — 2003 — General Director, Eurochem (earlier known as Minerals and Chemical Company, or MHK)
2002 — 2003 — Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director, Kovdor Mining and Beneficiation Complex,
2002 — 2003 — Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director, Kovdor Mining and Beneficiation Complex; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nevinnomyssk Azot and Nevinnomyssk Nitrogen Factory AZOT (NAK Azot).
2003 — 2004 — First Deputy to the Head of the Komi Republic
2005 — 2006 — Head of the Representative Office of UCE Management Synttech Limited.

Graduate of Leningrad Voznesensky Institute of Economics and Finance where he majored in Economics. Candidate of Economic Science

2000 - 2002  - Deputy Head of the Department of Finance with the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies of the Russian Federation.
2002 – First Deputy to the General Director and Executive Director of Eurochem.
2002 – 2003 - Deputy General Director of the Management Company of MDM Group, Deputy General Director and Member of the Board of Directors of Nevinnomyssk Azot and NAK Azot
2003 – 2004 – Deputy Head of the Komi Republic.
2004 – 2005 – Advisor to the Head of the Komi Republic.

Graduate of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (where he was trained as Optic Research Engineer), the Leningrad Voznesensky Institute of Economics and Finance as economist with major in foreign economics. Holds Master of Art Degree in Economics from the University of the State of New York.

2001 — Chief Counsel with the Legal Department, Techsnabexport Company.
2001 — 2004 — Legal Advisor with the Corporate Projects Department of the Legal Division of the Corporate Projects Department and Deputy Director of the same Department, MDM Group Management Company.
2003-2004 — Chairman of the Board of Director of Nevinnomyssk Azot, Member of the Board of Directors of Conversbank Group, NAK Azot, Kolmogorovskaya Mine, Berezovsky Open Cast — 1, Belovskoe Energy Management Company.
2004 — Deputy Project Management Head with the Corporate Projects Department, MDM Group Management Company.
2004 — 2005 — Legal Adviser with Agromashholding; Member of the Board of Directors of OAO Altai Motor Plant; First Deputy to the General Director of Chimprom.
2005 — 2006 — Deputy Head of the Representative Office for Corporate Development, UCE Management Synttech Limited.

Graduate of the Urals State Legal Academy as lawyer; Master of Law (The University of Manchester).

2000 — 2001 — project manager and head of the Project Management Division with the Development Department, Siberian Aluminium Group of companies.
2001 — 2002 — Head of the Bankruptcy Procedures Division, RusPromAuto.
2001 — 2004 — Deputy Head and Head of the Project Management Division, Corporate Projects Department, MDM Group Management Company.
2002 — 2004 — Chairman of the Board of Directors of NAZ Azot, Member of the Board of Directors of Nevinnomyssk Azot, Borodinsky Open Cast, Krasnoyarsk Mine, Kirov Mine, and Egozovskaya Mine.
2005-2006 — Deputy Head of the Representative Office of UCE Management Synttech Limited for Corporate Governance.

Graduate of the Moscow State Lomonosov University as economist. Master of Economics.

2000 — Chief Specialist of the Tax and Customs Policy Division of the Consolidated Accounting Audit and Analysis Department, Russian Aluminium
2000 — 2001 — Head of the Management Accounting and Analysis Section of the Control and Analysis Division, Russian Aluminium Management
2001 — 2002 — Head of Methodology and Cost Control Division of the Planning and Budgeting Department, Russian Aluminium Management.
2002 — 2003 — Deputy Director Finance for Economics, Head of the Plant Cost Management and Project Economic Expertise Section with the Financial Division of Eurochem.
2003 — Deputy Director Economics, VGTZ Holding.
2003 — 2006 — Deputy Chief Auditor, Head of the Internal Control Committee, Deputy General Director Economics, Agromashholding.
2006 — Deputy Head of the Representative Office for Economics and Finance, UCE Management Synttech Limited; earlier — Deputy General Director Economics, Development and Investments, Kirov Plant.

Graduate of the Moscow Ordzhonikidze Management Institute as planning engineer, Candidate of Economic Science

2001 — Head of the Export Trade Operations Division with Russian Mineral Trading company.
2001 — 2002 — Head of the Marketing Division, and later, the Marketing Director with Eurochem (earlier known as Minerals and Chemical Company, or MHK)
2002 — 2003 — Head of the Marketing Division with MHK-Trading.
2003 — 2006 — General Director, GEOTAR-Media
2006 — 2007 — General Director, Professional Library Company.

Graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the inistry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation as Economist in International Economic Relations with knowledge of foreign languages.