Providing leadership support to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Chief Operating Officer (COO), the Management Board is MegaFon's executive collegial management body. It is responsible for all aspects of operational management, apart from those which fall within the remit of the General Meeting of Shareholders, the Board of Directors, and the CEO or COO.
The size and composition of the Management Board are approved annually by the General Meeting of Shareholders based on recommendations from the CEO. The CEO is also the Chairman of the Management Board.
As at 31 December 2015, the composition of the Management Board was as follows:
Changes made to the composition of the Management Board during 2015 were as follows: Mikhail I. Molotkov joined the Board; and Stanislav A. Frolov and Mikhail A. Dubin left the Board due to their resignation from all of their positions with the Company.
CEO and Management Board Chairman
Born in 1976.
He graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1998 with a degree in law. Mr Tavrin has been a member of the Management Board since 7 March 2012. He was First Deputy CEO of MegaFon from 19 January 2012 until 20 April 2012, when he became the CEO and Chairman of the Management Board. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors at MO-TV Holdings Limited, LLC 7TV Media Holding, LLC CTC Investments, and LLC Vyberi Radio holding company. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors at UTH Russia Limited and JSC Kommersant Publishing House. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and CEO at Media-One Holdings Limited.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil .
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Chief Technological Officer
Born in 1984.
He holds a degree in economics with a major in marketing from Ural State Technical University. From 2005 to 2008, he worked in strategic consulting for Accenture; and in 2008–2012, as analyst and then engagement manager at The Boston Consulting Group. He joined the Company in March 2012, and later in the same year was appointed Director of Strategy. In August 2015, he was appointed Chief Technological Officer.
He has been Member of the Management Board since June 2013.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of Ural Branch
Born in 1970.
He is a graduate of the Dzerzhinsky Higher Institute of Border Defence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Special Police School in Bryansk, and Urals Academy of Public Administration. From 2006 to 2009, Mr Velichko was Director of Security at CJSC Urals GSM. He has been Director of the Company's Ural branch since April 2011. Previously, he was Deputy Director and Director of Security there.
He has been Member of the Management Board since June 2011.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Chief Financial Officer
Born in 1978.
He graduated from the International Economic Relations Department at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. From 2002 to 2007, he held several positions at OAO LUKOIL, including Deputy Head of the Corporate Borrowing Department. From 2007 to July 2011, he was Director of Corporate Finance / Head of Corporate Debt at Sistema JSFC. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of MegaFon in July 2011.
He has been Member of the Management Board since November 2011.
Mr Vermishyan has been a member of the Board of Directors at CJSC TT Mobile and CJSC OSTELECOM since 2013, and at CJSC Aquafon-GSM since 2012.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: 0.000968%.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: 0.000968%.
Director for Corporate Business Development
Born in 1977.
He graduated from Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics in Ukraine, and the University of Haifa in Israel.
Between 2008 and 2010, he was Head of Sales to small and mid-size business customers at AO VimpelCom. From 2010 to 2012, Mr Wolfson served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Medsi Group JSC. Mr Wolfson joined MegaFon in 2012 as Director for Corporate Clients, and in December 2013 he was appointed Director for Corporate Business Development.
He has been Member of the Management Board since June 2014.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director for Corporate Development
Born in 1981.
She holds a degree in economics from St. Petersburg State University.
From 2007 to 2008, she was at Renaissance Capital as part of its Investment Banking, Consumer & Retail Group. In 2009, she was Projects Lead on Operational Effectiveness at MC Euroset. From 2010 to 2012, she was Director for Corporate Development at UTH Russia. She was appointed Director for Corporate Development at MegaFon in April 2012, and has been Member of the Management Board since October of that year.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director, Investor Relations and M&A
Born in 1964.
He graduated from the University of Colorado, Denver, with a degree in Financial Accounting.
Joined MegaFon in 2000 and was Chief Financial Officer from 2002 to 2004. In 2008, Mr Kononov was appointed Director for Mergers & Acquisitions, and in 2012 he also became Director of Investor Relations. From 1993 to 1999 he served as First Deputy General Director and then as Chief Financial Officer of CJSC “Delta Telecom”, the first cellular telephone company in the country. In 1999 he was promoted to Chief Financial Officer of RTDC, a subsidiary of US West/MediaOne International (USA), which incorporated and actively invested in a number of providers of DAMPS/NMT/GSM services in certain regions of Russia. In 2000, he became a consultant to the Board of directors of First National Holding SA and Chief Financial Officer of OJSC “Telecominvest”, subsequently serving as a member of its board (until 2008).
He has been Member of the Management Board since June 2014.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of North-West Branch
Born in 1960.
He graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University with a degree in automated systems.
From 1993 to 2002, he was a senior engineer and, later, Head of the Department for Informatics and Automation of Bank Operations at Sberbank in Volgograd. From 2002 to 2003, he was Technical Director and then General Director of CJSC Volgograd Mobile. He became Technical Director at CJSC Mobicom-Centre in 2003 and was appointed First Deputy General Director in April 2007. In July 2009, Mr Korchagin became First Deputy Director of the Company's Central branch. From September 2011 to December 2014, he was Director of Central branch. In January 2015, he was appointed Director of Volga branch, and in February 2016, he was appointed Director of the Company's North-West branch.
He has been Member of the Management Board since November 2011.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of Far East Branch
Born in 1973.
He graduated from Samara State Technical University with a degree in mechanical engineering.
From December 2012 to September 2013, he was Director for Infrastructure at the Company's Volga branch, having previously held various positions there, including First Deputy Director of the branch, Commercial Director, and Deputy Commercial Director for Marketing. In September 2013, Mr Levykin was appointed Director of the Company's Far East branch.
He has been Member of the Management Board since October 2013.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of Consumer Business
Born in 1976.
Mr Likhodedov graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.
In 2007–2008, he was Deputy CEO of TV-3 channel, and in 2008, Deputy CEO of MTV Russia. In 2008–2009, he acted as Executive Director of Vyberi Radio Group. Between 2009 and 2011, Mr Likhodedov was CEO of 7TV. From November 2011 to May 2012, he was CEO of Disney Channel. He joined MegaFon in June 2012 as Director of the Company's Stolichny branch. In August 2015, he was also appointed its Director of Consumer Business. Since September 2015, he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Euroset Holding N.V.and CEO of LLC Scartel.
He has been Member of the Management Board since October 2012.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of Central Branch
Born in 1979.
Mr Molotkov graduated from Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University.
From January 2010 to January 2013, he was Commercial Director of the Company's Central branch; in February 2013, he became Director of Consumer Business at Central branch. In January 2015, Mr Molotkov was appointed Director of MegaFon's Central branch.
He has been Member of the Management Board since June 2015.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of Stolichny Branch
Born in 1982.
Mr Semenov graduated from Samara State Academy of Economics.
From 2005 to 2009, he was Director of the Mary El Republic branch office of OJSC MSS-Povolzhie. From 2009 to 2012, he held the position of Executive Director of CJSC TT mobile, a subsidiary of MegaFon in Tajikistan. In August 2012, Mr Semenov was appointed Director of MegaFon's North-West branch. In August 2015, he was appointed Director of MegaFon's Stolichny branch.
He has been Member of the Management Board since October 2012.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of Legal Affairs and Government Relations
Born in 1974.
She graduated with honours from Moscow State University, Faculty of Law, and holds a Master of Law degree from Manchester University.
From 1998 to 2004, Ms Serebryanikova was a senior legal counsel and department head at the Non-Commercial Foundation for Enterprise Restructuring and Financial Institutions Development under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Between 2004 and 2006, she was a lawyer at J.P. Galmond & Co. In 2006, Ms Serebryanikova became international legal affairs adviser to MegaFon's Chief Executive Officer. In 2008, she was appointed the Company's Director of Legal Affairs and held this position until 2012, when it was renamed Director of Legal Affairs and Government Relations. From 2008 to 2013, she also served as Corporate Secretary, and from 2010 to 2011, she acted as Deputy CEO for Corporate Development of CJSC Sinterra.
She has been Member of the Management Board since January 2009.
From December 2012 to November 2015,was Member of the Management Board of Euroset Holding N.V., and since November 2015 she has been a Member of the Supervisory Board of Euroset Holding N.V.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of Kavkaz (Caucasus) Branch
Born in 1963.
Mr Tyutin holds degrees in industrial and civil construction from Mikoyan Kuibyshev Institute of Engineering and Construction, and in economic and social planning from Samara State Academy of Economics. He became Head of the Corporate Finance Department of OJSC MSS-Povolzhie in December 2001, and Deputy CEO for Commercial Affairs of OJSC MSS-Povolzhie in 2004. In April 2009, he was appointed Director of MegaFon's Siberia branch. In August 2015, he was appointed Director of MegaFon's Kavkaz (Caucasus) branch.
He has been Member of the Management Board since June 2009.
In December 2015 was elected to the Board of Directors of CJSC OSTELECOM and CJSC Aquafon-GSM.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Chief Operating Officer
Born in 1977.
Mr Chermashentsev graduated from Saratov State University.
From 2006 to 2007, he was CEO and Development Director of LLC Regional Media Group. Between 2008 and 2012, as Director of Regional Development, he was responsible for media asset management at CJSC Media-1 Management. From 2009 to 2012, he was CEO of LLC Vyberi Radio. Mr Chermashentsev joined MegaFon in May 2012 as an adviser to the Chief Executive Officer. In August 2012, he became Director of Corporate Business Development, and in December 2013, Director of Infrastructure. On 1 July 2015, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of MegaFon and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Company.
He has been a member of the Management Board since October 2012.
A member of the Board of Directors of CJSC PETER-SERVICE and an adviser to CEO of LLC Scartel since 2015
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Director of Caucasus Operations and Member of the Management Board until August 2015 when he resigned from all positions held with the Company
Born in 1975.
Mr Frolov graduated from Voronezh State University and All-Russian Distance Learning Institute of Finance and Economics. From 2009 to 2010, he was Director of Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rostechinventarization, Federal Technical Inventory Bureau. In 2011, Mr Frolov was Managing Director of OJSC Corporation for the Development of the North Caucasus, and from 2011 to 2012, CEO of LLC Eurostroy. He joined MegaFon's Head Office in 2012, and was appointed Director of Caucasus Operations in September 2012.
Mr Frolov was Member of the Management Board from October 2012 to August 2015.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of CJSC OSTELECOM and CJSC Aquafon-GSM from December 2013 to December 2015, a member of the Board of Director of CJSC TT mobile from December 2014 to December 2015.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.
Executive Director for Consumer Business and Member of the Management Board until August 2015 when he resigned from all positions held with the Company
Born in 1978.
Mr Dubin holds a degree in international economics from the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and a PhD in economics. Between 1999 and 2007, he held various positions at Sberbank, dealing with project financing in the telecommunications sector. From 2009 to 2010, he was Deputy CEO of LLC AF Telecom Holding and OJSC Telecominvest. He joined MegaFon in July 2010 as First Deputy Executive Director for Strategic Development. In October 2012, he was appointed Executive Director for Consumer Business. In addition, from April to August 2015 he was CEO of LLC Scartel.
Mr Dubin was Member of the Management Board from November 2010 to August 2015.
Percentage share ownership in the Company: nil.
Percentage of the Company's ordinary shares held: nil.