Our Team

Alexander Goncharuk has been on the Board of Directors since 1995. He first joined the Company as a Vice President of Sistema in 1995 and served in this position until 1998. His many positions in the Group included Chairman of the Board of MTS, President of Sistema Telecom from 1998 to 2003, and General Director of Concern SITRONICS. 

Mr. Goncharuk became President of Sistema in February 2006. Mr. Goncharuk was General Director of the company ACO Leader before arriving at Sistema. From 1987 to 1991, he was a senior officer at the Main Headquarters of the Russian Navy.

Currently a member of the Boards of Directors of Bashneft, RussNeft, EGU GEST HOLDING  S.A., Charity fund "Sistema". Chairman of the Board of SITRONICS,  Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee at Bashneft. 

Mr. Goncharuk was born in 1956 in Sevastopol. He graduated with honours from the Sebastopol Naval Engineering Academy in 1978 and again with honours from the A.Grechko Naval Academy in 1987.

Mikhail Shamolin was born in 1970.

Mr. Shamolin was appointed President of Sistema in March 2011 and previously served as President and CEO of MTS Group from May 2008 until March 2011.

Mikhail Shamolin previously held the position of Vice President and Head of the "MTS Russia" business unit from August 2006.

Mr. Shamolin joined MTS in July 2005 as Vice President for Sales and Customer Service, prior to which he worked at Interpipe Corp. (Ukraine) as Managing Director of the Ferroalloys Division from 2004 to 2005, and at McKinsey & Co from 1998 to 2004.

Mikhail Shamolin graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation in 1993, and completed a Finance & Management course at Wharton Business School in 1997.

Currently a member of the Boards of Directors of NVision Group, MTS, RTI, Russian land Ltd., SISTEMA SHYAM TELESERVICES LTD. Mr. Shamolin is a Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee at JSC ONK and Chairman of the Board of Russneft. 

Vyacheslav Kopiev joined Sistema as a Vice President in 1997. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief of the External Business Relations Group from 2000 to 2003, and has been a Director since 2001. He was elected Deputy Chairman of the Board in 2003. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Intourist.

From 1989, and before arriving at Sistema, Mr. Kopiev occupied leading positions on the Administrative Board of the Union of Engineering Societies, including Director for International Relations and Innovation from 1992 to 1997. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Sputnik from 1990 to 1997. In 1989 he was elected First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Komsomol and later became Second Secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee.

From 1980 to 1989, he was Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Council of Young Scientists and Specialists as well as the Moscow City Council for the Development of the Scientific and Technical Abilities of Youth.

Currently a  Chairman of the Board of the charity fund "Sistema", Deputy of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the charity fund "Sistema".

Mr. Kopiev was born in 1954 in Moscow. He graduated from the Cybernetics Department of the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics in 1977 and from the Law Department of the Russian Academy of Management in 1993. Mr. Kopiev also graduated with honours from the Economy Department of the International Marketing and Management Academy in 1994. He holds degrees in Engineering and Law and is the author of over 70 scientific works.

Robert Kocharyan was born in 1954 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region.

From 1998 to 2008, Mr. Kocharyan was the President of Armenia. Before, from 1997 to 1998, he served as Prime Minister of Armenia.

From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Kocharyan was President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

From 1992 to 1994, he served as Chairman of the State Defense Committee and Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

In 1991, he was elected a Deputy of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's Supreme Soviet.

In 1989 and in 1990, Mr. Kocharyan was a Deputy of Armenia's Supreme Soviet and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Prior to that, he worked in Stepanakert's electro-technical plant and occupied various posts in Nagorno Karabakh's youth communist and party organisations. In 1982, Robert Kocharyan graduated from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute.

Roger Munnings was born in 1950 in the UK. He graduated from Oxford University with a Master of Arts degree (Honours) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Roger Munnings is currently the UK Government Special Representative for Trade and Investment between the UK and Russia; a member of the Executive Board of the Association of European Businesses; the Chairman of the Audit Committee Institute in Russia (sponsored by KPMG and the Russian Institute of Directors).

He formerly held positions as CEO of KPMG Russia/CIS Region (1996 to 2008); Chairman of KPMG's Global Energy and Natural Resources Practice (1993 to 2008); and as a member of the Board of KPMG EMEA Region (2000 to 2008).

Roger Munnings is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and was appointed CBE in the UK in H.M. The Queen's New Year's Honours List 2007.

He is an active member of a number of public organizations, including the National Council on Corporate Governance in Russia; the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Russia; the Russian Union of Directors; the US Russia Business Council; and the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce.

Evgeny Novitsky joined Sistema in 1995 as Director and President and continued in these roles until January 2005. He then became Chairman of the Board, where he remained until February 2006. From there, he remained on the Board as a non executive director.

Mr. Novitsky headed the development and production of computers as well as assembly of IBM computers at the Kvant plant in Zelenograd from 1991 to 1995. He also served as Chairman of the Board of IVK, a Russian information technology company.

Mr. Novitsky was born in 1957 in the Tomsk region. He received a degree in Engineering from the C.Bauman Moscow School of Engineering in 1985 and continued his studies there as an engineer mathematician until 1990.

He is now a member of that school's Board of Trustees. From 1989 to 1990 he also studied management at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (UK). He is the author of a number of publications and a monograph.

Currently a member of the Boards of Directors of Olimpiyskiy dom Ltd.

David Iakobachvili was born in 1957 in Georgia. He graduated from the Civil and Industrial Engineering Department of the Georgian Technical University in Tbilisi.

From 1986 to 2000, he was a private entrepreneur involved in various projects: official dealership of General Motors cars, tourism and hotel business, timber processing, management of furniture supplies, retail management, communications and banking.

In 1992, David Iakobachvili became one of the founders of the famous dairy company, Wimm-Bill-Dann.

From 1992-2011, he was a member and later the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wimm-Bill-Dann.

Since 2000 he has been a member of the Management Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (employers), and since June 2004, a member of the Bureau of the Management Board of the Union.

Serge Tchuruk was born on 1937 in France. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique.

Serge Tchuruk started his professional career with the Mobil Corporation where he held a number of managerial positions from 1964 till 1979, in France and in the USA, including that of CEO of Mobil Benelux.

From 1980 till 1986, he worked at Rhone-Poulenc, an international chemical and pharmaceutical company, where he had various managerial jobs, and in 1983 he was appointed the Managing Director of the company.

From 1986 till 1990, he was the Co-Chairman and CEO of Orkem, a European chemical company (earlier known as CDF-Chimie).

From 1990 till 1995, he was the Chairman and CEO of Total, one of the largest oil and gas companies globally.

In 1995, Serge Tchuruk became the CEO of Alcatel.

Was born in the USA.

Mr. Holtzman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Lehigh University. Currently he is Vice Chairman of Barclays Capital.

In addition, Mr. Holtzman serves as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Indus, a leading oil company, listed on the London AIM, with market capitalization of about USD 2bn.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Prospect Global Resources and Bank of Kigali, a leading commercial bank in Rwanda.

Mr. Holtzman serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Space Foundation and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Colorado Animal Rescue Shelter.

Drawing on almost two decades of political and public service, Mr. Holtzman has developed close relationships with governmental and political leaders around the world. He was on the Board of Trustees of the Almaty Regional Financial Center. Mr. Holtzman co-founded and served as a member of the Board of Directors of a non-partisan, non-profit group "Poland for Europe".

In 1989-1998 he lived and worked in Eastern Europe and Russia as a guest lecturer of the World Economic Development Congress and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In 2003-2005 Mr. Holtzman was President of the University of Denver. The University has approximately 10,000 students and includes the Daniels College of Business which, during Holtzman's tenure, was ranked by The Wall Street Journal as being among the world's top fifty MBA programs.

Mr. Holtzman served as Secretary of Technology of the Colorado government. In addition, he was Chairman of Colorado's Information Management Commission and Co-Chairman of the Commission on Science and Technology. Mr. Holtzman helped guide Colorado's economic transformation into a fully diversified technology hub.

Born in 1978, Felix graduated from the A. S. Griboedov Institute of International Law and Economics with a degree in jurisprudence.

In 1999-2000 he was deputy president of Sistema-Invest and the managing director of industrial department of Sistema JSFC.

Since 2000 Felix Evtushenkov has been Deputy General Director and Head of department of strategy and marketing of Sistema-Hals.

He headed the company Sistema-Hals from 2003 to 2008.

From 2008-2009, he was the Chairman of Board of Directors of Sistema-Hals, and in 2009-2010 he held the position of member of Board of Directors.

From 2008-2011, he was Vice President of Sistema JSFC and Head of the Consumer Assets Business unit.

In April 2011, Felix Evtushenkov was appointed First Vice President of Sistema.

Anton V. Abugov was born on September 9, 1976. Graduated from the Academy of National Economy under the RF Government. 

1995-2002 - United Financial Group, Director, Corporate Finance. 

2002-2003 - Eurasia Capital Partners, Partner. 

2003-2006 - Joint-Stock Commercial Bank Rosbank, Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

1997-2006 - advisor to the TAIF Group. In 1999 - advisor to RAO UES of Russia. Appointed First Vice President of Sistema JSFC in August 2006.

2007-2008, 2009 - Chairman of the Board of Directors, CJSC Sky Link.

2007-2008 - Chairman of the Board of Directors, OJSC COMSTAR-UTS.

2007-2009 - Chairman of the Board of Directors, OJSC Detsky Mir Center.

2008-2009 - Chairman of the Board of Directors, CJSC RWS.

Member of the Management Board of Sistema JSFC. Currently a member of the Boards of Directors of OJSC MTS, OJSC Joint-Stock Oil Company Bashneft, OJSC Bashkirenergo, OJSC Oil Company RussNeft and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC «Navigation-Information Systems» (NIS GLONASS)

Alexey Buyanov was born in 1969, in Moscow. He graduated in 1992 from the Moscow Physics and Engineering Institute (MPEI), specializing in applied mathematics and physics, and was an intern researcher at the Institute of Mechanics Problems (IMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1992 to 1994.

Mr. Buyanov joined Sistema in 1994 and occupied various posts at the Property Group until 1995, when he was appointed Head of Administration at Sistema-Invest, later becoming Vice President in 1996 and First Vice President in 1997. He also served as Vice President of MTS from 1998 to 2002. Also in 2002, he was appointed Vice President of Sistema and Head of the Financial Restructuring Department.

Later that year, Mr. Buyanov became First Vice President and Head of the Finance and Investment Group.

Sergei Drozdov was born in 1970 in Archangelsk. He graduated in 1993 from the S. Ordzhonikidze State Academy of Management in Economics. Mr. Drozdov was Head of the Administration for Financial Innovation and Marketing at the Moscow Property Fund from 1994 to 1995.

Mr. Drozdov has been working at Sistema since 1995. He managed the Department for Development and Investments from 1995 to 1998, and from 1998 and 2002 served as Vice President, Acting President and First Vice President of Sistema-Invest.

He became Acting First Vice President and Head of the Department for Corporate property in May 2002. In September 2002, he was appointed Director and First Vice President of Sistema and Chief of the Property Complex.

Born in 1965 in Tbilisi. Mr. Khidasheli graduated from Georgian Polytechnical Institute n.a. V.I. Lenin as mechanical engineer in 1989, and completed courses at UNESCO World Technological University, Moscow.

From 1988 till 1993 Mr. Khidasheli served as CEO at the Pravetz Corporation Representative Office in Russia and the CIS countries (computer technologies), Bulgaria.

From 1993 to 1998 David held a position of Chairman of the General Assembly of the International Road and Traffic Organization (IRTO), Switzerland.

From 1998 till 1999 - General Representative of Castel Group in the CIS countries

From 2000 - member of the Coordination Council, Executive Director for the programmes of World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction (WAPMERR), Switzerland.

From 2004 till 2009 - Vice President of the UNESCO World Technological University (Moscow).

From 2004 - Chairman of the Management Board (Chief Technology Architect), INFORMAP GROUP.

 In 2009, David Khidasheli joined Sistema JSFC as Executive Vice President, in 2011 Mr.Khidasheli was appointed as Director of Innovations, from 2012 he is Vice President.

Anna Goldin was born in Saint-Petersburg. Anna Goldin graduated from the University of California, Berkley and Boalt Hall where she received her Bachelor's Degree and J.D.

In 1990, she joined Latham&Watkins L.L.P., a leading international law firm, where she worked her way up from an associate in Los Angeles to a partner and then an Office Managing Partner of the Moscow office.

While working in Latham&Watkins, Anna Goldin specialized in corporate finance, capital markets and M&A, and provided legal services to leading Russian and international companies in telecommunications, high-technology, oil and gas, finance and other fields.

Andrey was born in 1962. In 1985 Andrey Terebenin graduated from Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs. Subsequently he held management positions at Economicheskaya Gazeta (Economics Gazette), Dun & Bradstreet CIS and AIG Russia.

In 2003-2006, he served as General Director and Managing Partner of Communication Holding at R.I.M. Porter Novelli.

In 2006-2011 he held the position of Vice President of MTS, Corporate Communications.

From May 2011 he has been Vice President of Sistema, Corporate Communications.

Elena was born in 1971 in Moscow.

In 1992 she graduated with honours from the Rostov State University (Linguistics Department).

In 2005 she received a diploma in Human Resources Management from the State Academy of Investment Specialists.

Before joining the Corporation, in 2010-2012 she was Senior Vice President, Director of the HR Department at OJSC MTS BANK.

Earlier from 2008 to 2012 she was Director of the HR Department and a member of the management board at Sistema Hals.

In 2002-2008 she held a position of HR Department Director at the Capital Insurance Group (IFD Capital).

Member of the National Union of HR Specialists of Russia.

Member of the HR Committee of the Association of Russian Banks.

Chris Baxter is a British Citizen born in England in 1963. 

He graduated from Imperial College London in 1987 with First Class honours as a Master of Engineering and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Manufactures and Commerce in recognition of exemplary academic performance.

From 1987 Chris worked at Chase Manhattan Bank (now part of JPMorgan).

In 1995 he left the company in the position of a Vice President to join Merrill Lynch, also in London.  He was at Merrill Lynch for 8 years and ran the Energy and Power investment banking business for the EMEA region, actively advising in major sector transactions which in total comprised over $150billion in cumulative value.

Chris's last major transaction at Merrill was advising on the formation of BP-TNK in 2002/3 and this was his major introduction to Russian business. 

In 2003 he was hired to run the Investment Banking business for the Renaissance Group in Moscow

Chris also served on the board of the Group's consumer bank, Renaissance Credit, and was an active member of the Group's Executive and Remuneration Committees.       

Leonid was born in 1958 in Mosir (Belarus).

In 1980 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railroad Transport with a degree in industrial and civil construction.

For his services and many years of hard work in construction Mr. Monosov received awards and the title of Honored Construction Worker of the Russian Federation.

Leonid started his career at Glavmospromstroy (now - OJSC Mospromstroy), where from 1980 to 1999 he worked his way up from a foreman to Deputy General Director.

In 1999-2007 Leonid was General Director of Moskapstroy.

In 2007-2010 he was Head of an executive body of the Moscow Government - the Municipal Capital Development Contracts Department of the city of Moscow.

From 2010 and until joining Sistema, Mr. Monosov was first Vice President of the Olympstroy State Corporation.

Since March 2012 he has been Executive Vice President of the Sistema's Developing Assets Business Unit.

Ali was born in 1962.

In 1985 he graduated from the Rostov Institute of Railroad Engineers.

In 1990 he continued his education at the International Survival School (Italy).

In 1998-1995 he was a lecturer at the Rostov Institute of Railroad Engineers.

In 1994-1997 he was Head of the Rostov Commodity Exchange.

1997-1998 - Director of Ayaks LLC

1998-2001 - Director of the Rostov office of OJSC ANK Bashneft

2001-2007 - Chairman of the OJSC Kormmash Board of Directors, in 2007-2009 - General Director of Rostovregiongas LLC.

2009-2012 - First Vice President for Refining and Sales of OJSC ANK Bashneft.