Management Board
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VITALIY NESIS
CEO of Polymetal
Mr. Nesis has served as the Company's CEO since 2003 and as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since June 2004, Chairman of Management Board. From 2002 to 2003, he was the General Director of Vostsibugol, a major coal mining company based in eastern Russia. In 2000 Mr. Nesis was the Strategic Development Director at the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant and, from 2001 to 2002, he was the Director of the Investment Planning Department at SUAL-Holding. From 1999 to 2000, he worked for McKinsey & Co. in Moscow and, from 1997 to 1999, Mr. Nesis worked as an Analyst for Merrill Lynch in New York. In 1997 he graduated from Yale University (USA) with a degree in Economics.
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SERGEY CHERKASHIN
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Cherkashin is the Company's CFO, a position he has held since 2005, Management Board member. Mr. Cherkashin has held several positions in the fields of food processing and machine building, including CFO of the Timashevsk Dairy Company, Sales Director of the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant and Deputy CEO of Development at the Volgograd Dairy 3. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of Meat-Packaging Plant Ltd. and the Volgograd Dairy. From 1996 to 1997, he worked as a Consultant for AT Kearney in Moscow. He also worked in aerospace research for Energy in Korolev. Mr. Cherkashin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a degree in Applied Mathematics in 1985 and attended business school at the University of Hartford (USA), majoring in Accounting.
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VALERY TSYPLAKOV
Managing Director of Polymetal Engineering
Mr. Tsyplakov is the Managing Director of Polymetal Engineering, a position he has held since 2004, Management Board member. He joined the Company in 1999 and has served as Deputy Head of Construction and later Head of the Technological Research Department and Deputy General Director for Mineral Resources, Design and Technology. From 1993 to 1999, he held several management positions in various companies. From 1988 to 1993, he served as Department Head at the Soviet Union Research Institute of Aeronautical Automation. Mr. Tsyplakov worked at the Physics Institute at Denmark's Orhus University from 1986 to 1987. From 1978 to 1988, Mr. Tsyplakov worked as an Engineer, Chief Engineer and then Research Fellow for the Plasma Physics Department of Moscow Physics and Engineering Institute. Mr. Tsyplakov graduated from Moscow Physics and Engineering Institute with a degree in Experimental Nuclear Physics and has a Ph.D. in physical mathematics.
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IGOR VENATOVSKY
Advisor Director General
Advisor Director General from April, 2009, Management Board member. Mr. Venatovsky has been Polymetal's COO since 2000 and has been with the Company since its inception. From 1997 until 1999, he was the CEO of Olginskaya Mining and Geological Company and, from 1995 to 1997, Mr. Venatovsky was the CEO of Bashkirskaya Gold Mining Company. From 1971 to 1995, Mr. Venatovsky worked at the Krasnokholmsk Geological Association as an Engineer and later as its CEO. Mr. Venatovsky graduated from the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Mining Engineering and Hydrogeology.