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Mikhail Shamolin

President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

  • 2008 (May): Appointed President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MTS
  • 2006 (August): Appointed Vice-President, Director of the Business-unit ‘MTS Russia’
  • 2005 (July): Joined MTS as Vice-President, responsible for the areas of sales and customer service
  • 2004-2005: Managing Director of the Ferroalloys Division at Interpipe Corp. (Ukraine)
  • 1998-2004: Worked at McKinsey & Co.
  • 1996-1997: Studied at Wharton Business School completing the finance and management course for top managers
  • 1993: Graduated from the Russian Academy of Government Service
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Vsevolod Rozanov

Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer

  • 2006 (April): Appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of MTS
  • 2004: Appointed Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance of Comstar UTS, coordinating the preparation of the company’s IPO on the London Stock Exchange
  • 2002: Joined MTU-Inform as Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance
  • 1993-2001: Held various consulting positions at Bain & Company, Inc. in Moscow, London and Stockholm
  • Graduate of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, majoring in Economics
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Cynthia Gordon

Vice-President, Chief Marketing Officer

  • 2007 (January): Joined MTS as Vice-President − Chief Marketing Officer
  • 2003-2006: Vice-President of Business Marketing at Orange
  • 2001-2003: Marketing Director at Orange
  • 2000-2001: Marketing Director at Demon/Scottish Telecom
  • 1998-1999: Marketing Director at ACC International (AT&T)
  • Previously Head of ChargeCard and held a range of senior marketing positions from 1991-1998 including at One to One (T-Mobile), Lloyds TSB and Abbey National
  • Graduated with a B.A. in Business Studies from Brighton University
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Yury Gromakov

Vice-President − Technology Development

  • 1994: Joined MTS
  • 1973-1994: Worked at various enterprises of the industrial military complex in the field of telecommunications
  • Member of governing bodies of 3G Association, Russian GSM Association and Vice-President of the Russian National Radio Association
  • Member of the International Academy of Network and the International Academy of Information Science, Processes and Technologies
  • Holder of a number of state awards in science and technology
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Aleksander Bogatyrev

Acting Vice-President for Network and Information Technology

  • 2007: Became acting Vice-President for Network and Information Technology
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of the Business unit MTS Ukraine
  • 2006: Appointed advisor to the Vice-President for Network and Information Technology
  • 1999-2004: Worked in Israel in a number of key positions in logistics and software development
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Oleg Raspopov

Vice-President, Director of Business-unit ‘MTS-Foreign Subsidiaries’

  • 2008: Vice-President, Director of Business-Unit ‘MTS-Foreign Subsidiaries’
  • 2007: Appointed acting Vice-President, Director of Business-unit ‘MTS-Foreign Subsidiaries’
  • 2006: Appointed as Head of Department of Extra Input Management at MTS
  • 2004: Founded and headed insurance broking company ‘Energoprotection’
  • 2002-2004: Became an Advisor to the CFO in RAO ‘UES of Russia’ and member of the Board of Directors of several RAO-affiliated companies including ‘Ren-TV’ and LEADER Insurance Co.
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Andrei Terebenin

Vice-President − Corporate Communications

  • 2006: Joined MTS as Vice-President – Corporate Communications with responsibility for PR and investor relations
  • 2003: Director General and Partner of R.I.M. Porter Novelli Communications Holding
  • 1999: Joined Treugolnik Porter Novelli Communications Agency as Partner
  • Previously worked at Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, Dun and Bradstreet SNG, as well as AIG Rossia Management
  • 1985: Graduated from MGIMO with a Major in International Economic Relations
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Ruslan Ibragimov

Vice-President – Corporate and Legal Matters

  • 2008: Vice-President for Corporate and Legal Matters, MTS
  • 2007: Occupied position of Director for Corporate and Legal Matters, MTS
  • 2006: Joined MTS as Director of Legal Department
  • 2002-2006: Worked at the Moscow firm, Ibragimov, Kagan and Partners
  • 1997-2002: Deputy Director – Head of Tax and Legal Consultation Department at the company ‘Top-audit’
  • 1992-1996: Head of Legal Services in several commercial banks
  • 1986: Graduated from the faculty of law at Moscow State University and completed his post-graduate studies at the People’s Friendship University of Russia, where he is a candidate for a doctorate in law
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Andrei Dubovskov

Director General of Business-unit ‘MTS-Ukraine’

  • 2008: Appointed Director General of Business unit ‘MTS Ukraine’
  • 2007: Joined MTS Ukraine as First Deputy Director General
  • 2006-2007: Head of the macro-region MTS Ural
  • 2004-2006: Head of the MTS branch in Nizhny Novgorod
  • 2002-2004: Headed Tele2 operations in Nizhny Novgorod
  • 1993-2002: Occupied a number of management positions in companies such as Millicom International Cellular S.A., Millicom International Cellular B.V., Regionalnaya Sotovaya Svyaz LLC and CJSC 800.
  • 1993: Graduated from the State Institute of Cinematography ‘S.A. Gerasimov’
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Sergey Nikonov

Vice-President – HR and Administrative Activity

  • 2006 (July): Joined MTS
  • Before joining MTS worked as Deputy Director of OJSC ‘Power Machines’ supervising HR and administrative activity
  • 2003-2005: Deputy Director of ROSNO with responsibilities for the HR department, administrative activity and internal control
  • 1992-2002: Worked for the Federal tax police occupying a range of positions
  • Graduated as a military interpreter at the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
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Pavel Belik

Vice-President for Corporate Security

  • 2005 (October): Appointed Vice-President for corporate security
  • 2005 (February): Joined MTS as Director of the Security Department of the macro-region ‘Moscow’
  • 1992-2004: Served in the intelligence services of the Russian Federation and in the Department of Internal Security of the Russian Federal Security Service, graduating from the Academy of the Russian Federal Security Service as a lawyer in 1999
  • 1987-1992: Served in government communication troops
  • 1987: Graduated from the High Military College
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Sergey Skaterschikov

Vice-President of Business Development

  • 2007 (February): Joined MTS · Formerly Director of Investment Banking at Dresdner Kleinwort with responsibilities for the bank’s Russian IPO business
  • Held a number of senior executive roles at companies such as Unified Heavy Machinery (OMZ) and an online brokerage arm of Bank Austria Creditanstalt in Central Europe
  • Graduate of Moscow State University specializing in regional economics and American studies, and Global Executive MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
  • Over 15 years of venture capital, private equity and M&A experience in Russia and abroad
  • Non-executive Board member of a number of listed and private companies including two London Stock Exchange listed groups − including OAO OMZ and OAO LSR – and Chairman of IndexAtlas Group, an investment boutique
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Dr. Michael Hecker

Vice-President for Strategy and Corporate Development

  • 2006: Joined MTS and currently serves as Vice-President for Strategy and Corporate development
  • 2000-2006: Worked at A.T. Kearney Europe with responsibilities for strategy, marketing and finance in European telecommunication and consumer goods industries
  • Prior to A.T. Kearney Europe, worked in several positions as a Junior Lawyer in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany)
  • Graduated in International Politics and Administration at Pierre-Mendez-France-University in Grenoble (France) and in Law and Modern History at Georg-August University in Goettingen (Germany) obtaining a PhD in Constitutional History