Main Management Council

Vyacheslav Norenko

Head of Legal Block

Vyacheslav Norenko was appointed Head of Legal Block at MDM Bank in October 2007. His main tasks are to create a comprehensive system for providing legal information about the Bank as well as to promote the level of quality in managing legal risks.

From 1995 until his joining MDM Bank, Vyacheslav worked in the Russian division of ABN AMRO Group, where he was promoted from lawyer to Corporate Director, Head of Legal Department. His professional experience and in-depth understanding of the legal aspects of development in the banking sector were applied also in his social work as Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Banking Law and Self-Regulation Standards of the Association of Russian Banks and as a member of the financial market work group of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council.

Victoria Lewis

Head of Private Banking Department

Since 2005, Victoria Lewis has headed the Private Banking Department which provides services to VIP clients of MDM Bank. She oversees all matters related to developing a successful business model, including strategic development and expansion of client business and product lines.

Victoria has worked in the field of private wealth management for about 10 years. In 1998–1999, Victoria worked with private corporate clients in ZAO Templeton — one of the largest US companies in mutual fund management. In 2000, Victoria changed her position to work at the management company Troika Dialog, where until 2002 she worked with private clients as Vice President. In 2002, she was appointed Deputy General Director and oversaw trust management of large private clients.

Nikita Riauzov

Head of Investment Banking Department

Nikita Riauzov began work at MDM Bank in July 2003 as Deputy Head of Investment Block and Head of Corporate Client Services Division. In 2005, he was appointed Head of Debt Capital Markets. In January 2007, he was appointed Head of Investment Banking Department of MDM Bank. He oversees corporate and debt financing as well as activities on the capital markets.

He gained his first experience in banking at Roseksimbank. In 1998, he moved to Zenit Bank, where, in 2002, he headed the Investment Department and became a member of the bank’s Management Board.

Michelangelo Mazzarelli

Head of Strategic Planning Department
Head of Human Resources Department

In August 2005, Michelangelo Mazzarelli was invited to MDM Bank to set up and manage the Strategic Planning Department. Since August 2007, he has also led the Human Resources Department. By which, a unified center was formed in the Bank to lead planning of the development of the regional network and manage human resources – the approach aimed at attaining the best customer service and increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of management.

From 1999 to 2005, Michelangelo worked at the consulting company, Accenture, in a unit responsible for developing strategies of leading banks and other financial organizations in Italy and abroad. As part of his job, Michelangelo worked in a team of professionals focused on analysis and creation of equity value. In 2003, he moved to Accenture’s Russian division, where he was responsible for development of the strategic practices of companies in the financial sector, working in collaboration with major Russian banks and insurance companies.

Michelangelo graduated from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy with a degree in Business Administration.

Andrey Trifonov

Head of Banking Technologies Department

Andrey Trifonov joined MDM Bank in February 2007 as Head of Banking Technologies Department with the tasks of creating a service-oriented unit and introducing new industrial IT solutions. In September 2007, he also undertook responsibility for the project management office coordinating the Bank’s program for transformation, including the creation of a new IT system tailored to the new strategy of the Bank.

From 1997 to 2005, Andrey, as IT Director of Raiffeisenbank in Russia, was responsible for the creation of an IT infrastructure for a Russia-based unit of Raiffeisen international financial group. He participated in the creation of the bank’s operational model in Eastern Europe and oversaw localization of the central banking system and setting up of retail banking systems. In 2005, Andrey became CIO of the Russian unit of GE Money Bank, where he led integration of the bank into the corporate structure of GE, elaboration of the bank’s mid-term strategy in Russia, introduction of a corporate IT platform for retail business, and participated in strategic planning of the retail business of GE Money in Europe.

Constantine Rogov

Head of Treasury Department

Constantine Rogov has acted as Head of Treasury Department at MDM Bank since 2003.

Constantine has worked in the banking sector since 1994 and has experience in dealing with securities trading, liquidity management, assets and liabilities. In 1995–1998, he worked at Russian Credit Bank where he was promoted from dealer to Head of Treasury. Following the national economic crisis in 1998, Constantine headed the Treasury Department at Impexbank. In addition to liquidity management, assets and liabilities, Constantine has participated in the creation of the Bank’s long-term development strategy.

Constantine graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1993 with a degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics. In 1997, he graduated from the Russian State Academy of Finance with a degree in Finance and Credit.

Vera Ilushina

Head of Analytics and Budgeting Department

Vera Ilushina has been at MDM Bank since 2001 as Head of Analytics and Budgeting Department. She handles issues related to budgeting, evaluating the effectiveness of investment projects, and calculating financial performance of cost centers within the financial structure of the Bank. Since 2007, she has been a member of the Bank’s budget committee.

Vera has been working in the banking sector since 1992. Until her joining MDM Bank, she worked in JSCB Sovinkom and JSCB Elbim-Bank, where she handled issues regarding business planning, control and monitoring of operational expenditures, as well as evaluation of the key performance indicators of Bank operations and employees.

Sergey Liashevich

Head of Department for Development of Client Business Technologies

Sergey Liashevich has acted as Head of the Department for Development of Client Business Technologies in the Corporate Investment Block since October 2007. He has worked at MDM Bank since 1998, responsible for the introduction of client-oriented service technologies and the evaluation of business processes.

Sergey has worked in the banking sector since 1996. Until his joining MDM Bank, he worked in the analytical unit of the Correspondent Relations Division at Inkombank, where he evaluated the liquidity of Russian and foreign banks.

He graduated with honors from the physical technical college and graduate school at the Moscow Mining Institute, as well as from the State Financial Academy with a degree in Banking.

Yulia Molotkovskaya

Head of Internal Audit Department

Yulia Molotkovskaya joined MDM Bank in September 2006 as Head of Internal Audit Department.

In 1996, she graduated from the Academy of Commerce and Management with a degree as economist with knowledge of foreign languages. She speaks fluent English and Spanish.

Oleg Mukhambetov

Deputy Head of Retail Block

Oleg Mukhambetov has been working at MDM Bank since 2001. In October 2007, Oleg was appointed Deputy Head of the Retail Block. In 2005, he was appointed Head of Sales and Bank Products Support. He participated in the development of the product line for corporate clients.

He has worked in the banking sector since 1995. Until his joining MDM Bank, he worked at the Moscow Bank for Development and at Alfa Bank, where he was responsible for credit and client services, and participated in the project team which tested and monitored the business processes of the bank.

Igor Smirnov

Head of Directorate for Business Accompaniment

Igor Smirnov was appointed Head of Directorate for Business Accompaniment in January 2006.

He oversees activities of the Bank’s structural units responsible for information security, verification, soft/hard collection, monitoring of business processes at the head office and at branches.

Irina Strukova

Head of Operations Department

Irina Strukova has headed the Operations Department of the Bank since 2000. She oversees the following activities: document operations, cash and clearing services for individuals and legal entities, interbank payments (LORO and NOSTRO), payment cards, currency control, accompaniment and accounting of operations with securities, accounting of lending operations, accounting of internal bank transactions, maintenance and accounting of interbank lending operations, FOREX and precious metals, methodology of banking products. Prior to joining MDM Bank, Irina worked at the Department for Automatic Accounting System at Moscow State University of Railway Transport. In 1992, she moved to the commercial bank Finvestbank. From 1992 to 2000, she worked as economist, deputy head accountant, and head of operations divisions at commercial banks.

Andrey Kuznetsov

Head of the Small Business Loan Department

Mr. Kuznetsov was appointed Head of the Small Business Loan Department in October 2007, joining the Management Council in February 2008. In October 2004, he was appointed Director of the Corporate Client Division for the Moscow Region. Mr. Kuznetsov joined MDM Bank in June 2003 as manager of the Bank's Solyanka branch office.

In July 1999, Mr. Kuznetsov began working for BIN Bank as Head of the International Business Division as part of the Corporate Department. He was responsible for relations with foreign loan organizations and banks and credit agencies on issues concerning the attraction of financing for the Bank and corporate clients, including retail financing, transactions with import and export agencies as well as syndicated loans.

From May 1996-July 1999, Mr. Kuznetsov was the Head of the Small Business Department at SBS Agro Bank, having started his career in banking in 1994 as the Auditing and Consulting Manager at the Ekuran Company.

Mr. Kuznetsov graduated from the Finance Academy of the Russian Federation Government in 1996.

Alexander Afonin

Corporate Customers Service Director

Mr. Afonin was appointed Corporate Customers Service Director in August 2008. He is responsible for overseeing issues concerned with the sale of banking services and products to corporate clients.

Mr. Afonin joined MDM Bank in 2002 and directed the Major Industrial Client Division, responsible for business development with enterprises involved in machine engineering, metallurgy, transportation and mining. In April 2004, he was appointed as Deputy Head of the Major Client Department.

Mr. Afonin began his banking career in 2000 at Alfa Bank in the Client Division, beginning as a research specialist and being promoted to head of the Oil and Oil-chemical Enterprise Sector Department.

Mr. Afonin graduated in 1995 from Moscow State Technological University, Stankin, with a degree in Information Technology. In 1999, he received a second degree in Finance and Credit from the Academy of National Economics under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Mikhail Karasev

General Director of LeasingPromHold

Mr. Karasev was appointed General Director of LeasingPromHold in February 2008, responsible for issues on overseeing the leasing company's operations, developing prospective projects, developing the company's branch network and coordinating the operations of the branches and head office. In February 2008, he was added to the Main Management Council.

Mr. Karasev has worked at LeasingPromHold since 1999, rising from manager to Head of the Delivery and Leasing Department and then Deputy General Director of the company. He has a solid background in developing methods and signing leasing deals as well as negotiating with important clients, financial organizations and equipment suppliers.

In 1997, Mr. Karasev began his career as a research assistant at Gemos Ltd, working in the area of sales and import of mining equipment. He graduated in 1996 from Moscow State Geological Exploration Academy, with degrees in Mining Engineering and Economics (economics and mining enterprise management).

Eugene Antifeev

Deputy Director of the Network Management Block, Head of the Regional Business Development Department

Mr. Antifeev was appointed as Head of the Regional Business Development Department in July 2007, responsible for developing relations with large regional corporate clients, organizing the sale of the best banking services and products to them and managing personnel working with corporate clients in the Bank's regional representative offices. He joined MDM Bank in 2006 as Head of the Corporate Business Development Division.

Mr. Antifeev began his banking career in 1999 as Project Director at Alfa Bank, where he handled relations between the bank and the Central Bank of Russia and the Credit-Organization Restructuring Agency. In August 2000, he joined BIN Bank as the Deputy Head of the International Trade Division.

In 1996, Mr. Antifeev graduated with a BA in Production Management from the Institute of Management, Business and Law in Rostov-on-Don. He also took courses leading to an MBA from 1997-1998 at Oklahoma City University, USA.

Egor Markin

Deputy Director of the Network Management Block

Mr. Markin was appointed as Deputy Director of the Network Management Block in October 2007, responsible for issues on developing the Bank's network, in addition the current direction.

Mr. Markin joined MDM Bank in 2001, and has worked in the MDM Bank State Programs Division as a senior analyst, rising to Deputy Head of the Division in March 2004. In April 2004, he was appointed as Deputy Director of the Federal Policies Department at SUEK, part of the MDM Group structure.

In November 2004, Mr. Markin headed the Revision Commission of Eurochem. In August 2005, he headed the Revision Commission of MDM Bank, being appointed as General Director of MDM Banking Holding in July 2006, where he was responsible for managing the Company's activities and controlling the Bank's substantial processes as a shareholder of MDM Bank.

Mr. Markin began his banking career in 2000 as an economist at Sberbank Russia.

He graduated in 2000 from State University Higher School of Economics, majoring in Banks and Banking.

Konstantin Khaytovich

Director of the Network Development Project Group in the Central Federal District

In January 2008, Mr. Khaytovich was appointed Director of the Network Development Project Group in the CFD, responsible for overall administration and overseeing the activity and development of the Bank's current network in the CFD. In February 2008, he joined the Main Management Council.

Mr. Khaytovich has worked at MDM Bank since April 2004 as Deputy Branch Manager specifically in Murmansk and St. Petersburg. He began his banking career in 1994 at the Murman commercial bank, leaving in 1997 to work at Menatep Bank's branches in Murmansk and then St. Petersburg, responsible for handling currency operations and issuing and servicing bank cards.

In 2002, he was appointed as an advisor to the Chairman of the Management Board. In May of that year, he was appointed as First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Murmansk Social Commercial Bank.

In 1994, Mr. Khaytovich graduated with a degree in Management, Economics and Law from Murmansk State Fishing Fleet Academy, concentrating on production management and finance manage.

Andrey Atamas

Director of the Network Management Project Group in the Northwest Federal District

Mr. Atamas was appointed as Director of the Hub in the Northwest Functional Center in 2008 and was included in the Main Management Council in February of the same year. He has worked at MDM Bank since 2004, beginning as Branch Manager in Murmansk and becoming Branch Manager in St. Petersburg in 2005.

In April 2002, Mr. Atamas was appointed as advisor to the Chairman of the Murmansk Social Commercial Bank Management Board, and the following May, he took over the position of Chairman of the Management Board. In April 2004, Mr. Atamas was transferred to the position of Manager of the MDM Bank branch in Murmansk.

In December 1996, Mr. Atamas was appointed Deputy Manager of Menatep Bank in Murmansk. Mr. Atamas began his career in banking in March 1995 in the Murmansk branch of AKB Eurocosmos as a Currency Accountant and then became the Head of the Currency and Collection Department.

Mr. Atamas graduated from the Management, Economics and Law Institute of the Murmansk State Fishing Fleet Academy in 1995 with a degree in Production and Finance Management, having received and undergraduate degree from the same school in 1995. In 1995, he also received additional qualification by taking a course called Banking Management at the Murmansk Center of Education and Development as part of the Sentex University, Lulea, Sweden.

Dmitry Sukhoverkhov

Director of the Network Management Project Group in the Southern Federal District

Mr. Sukhoverkhov was appointed as Director of the Network Management Project Group in the SFD in February 2008. After having joined MDM Bank in 2001, he headed the Bank's Corporate Client Department in the Rostov-on-Don branch. In October 2002, he was appointed as Deputy Manager for the Rostov-on-Don branch.

Mr. Sukhoverkhov began his career in banking in 1995 as an economist in the Currency and Commercial Department of the AvoVAZbank branch in Rostov-on-Don. From January 1996-March 1999, he worked in the Rostov-on-Don branch of Inkombank, rising from specialist to Head of the Securities Department. In 2000, he was appointed Director of the Debit and Credit Division of Yuzhny Torgovy Bank.

Mr. Sukhoverkhov graduated with honors from Rostov-on-Don Institute of National Economics, Rostov State Academy of Economics, concentrating in International Economics.

Sergey Shaporenko

MDM Bank Branch Manager, Novosibirsk; 
Director of the Project Group for Network Development in the Siberian Federal District

Mr. Shaporenko took over as head of the Director of the Project Group for Network Development in the SFD in December 2007. In February 2003, he was appointed the Bank's Branch Manager in Novosibirsk, after joined the bank in November 2001 and working as the Bank's Branch Manager in Kemerovo.

From 1996-2001, Mr. Shaporenko worked as head of the loan department at Bashcreditbank's branch in Novosibirsk, being promoted to branch manager in Moscow. From 1993-1995, he worked for Siberian Commercial Bank, starting his banking career there as loan department inspector prior to being appointed as the head of the loan department and eventually as head of the Main Loan Division.

Mr. Shaporenko graduated in 1992 from Novosibirsk Electron and Technical Institute with a degree in Engineering.

Sergey Timofeev

Managing Director of the Network Development Project Group in the Urals Federal District

Mr. Timofeev was appointed as Managing Director of the Network Development Project Group in the UFD in December 2007. He has worked at MDM Bank since September 2001 as Manager of the Bank's Vladivostok branch prior to his recent appointment.

Mr. Timofeev began his banking career in April 1994 at the Artem branch of Dalnovostochny Bank as an economist in the Loan Department. In January 1996, he transferred to the bank's Primore branch, and in September 1996, he was appointed as Head of the Client Relations Division, joining the bank's Management Board.

In 2005, Mr. Timofeev graduated from the Pacific State Economics University, with a concentration in Finance and Credit. From 1994-1996, he attended the Primore Institute of Civil Service of the State Service Academy of the Russian Federation, concentrating in State and Municipal Management. He graduated from Ussur Military Automobile Preparatory School in 1987.

Roman Medvedev

Director of the Network Development Project Group for in the Far Eastern Federal District

Mr. Medvedev was appointed as Director of the Project Group for Network Development in the FFD and brought into the Main Management Council in February 2008, having started at MDM Bank as the Head of Network Coordination Management in 2006. He oversaw the supervisory operations at 13 of the Bank's branches, organizing their collaboration with the Bank's head office as well as was responsible for practical issues of network development. From September (although actually), directed the Bank's Nizhny Novgorod branch.

Mr. Medvedev began his banking career in July 1993 at Kuzbassprombank. He was a member of the exchange committee of the Siberian Interbank Currency Exchange in Novosibirsk. From 1999-2004, he worked for Sobinbank in Kemerovo, as head of the currency service and currency control department and then as the branch manager, while serving as a member of the banking council of the Kemerovo Region. Beginning in February 2004, he worked for Siberian Business Union Holding as deputy finance director at Chernigovets, as executive director at the Kuzbass Regional Insurance Company in Kemerovo, and then joined the Kuzbass Self-Regulatory Organization of the Court Appointed Receiver and Manager.

Mr. Medvedev has taken part in a number of courses to improve his qualifications at BNP-Dresdner Bank, the International Moscow Finance and Banking School, the Siberian Banking Educational Center and the Academy of National Economics
under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Mr. Medvedev graduated with a degree in Economics and Management in Mining and Geology from Kuzbass Polytechnic Institute in 1993. From 1993-1995, he studied for and received another degree in Finance and Credit from the Siberian International Higher School of Banking, Novosibirsk.