Management

Biography

Alexander Izosimov was born in 1964 in Yakutsk. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute with a degree in Economics.

He started his management career in 1991 in the Stockholm office of McKinsey & Company, a global strategic consulting firm. In 1995, he earned an MBA degree from INSEAD (France) and joined the London office of McKinsey & Company. 

In 1996, Alexander started working in the Russian office of Mars Inc., serving as a planning manager, CFO, sales director and CEO. In 2001, Alexander became a member of the Global Executive Management Board at Mars, Inc. as Regional President for the CIS, Central Europe, and Nordic regions.

He headed OJSC VimpelCom (Vimpelcom Ltd, Veon since 2017, operates under the Beeline brand in Russia) as its CEO and President between 2003 and 2011, steering the company through a period of rapid growth, geographic expansion and manyfold increase in business operations, which transformed the company into one of the world’s leading operators.

From 2011, Alexander focused on excelling as a director on the boards of Ericsson AB, MTG AB, East Capital AB, Transcom SPA, Teleopti AB, and Baltika. Currently, he serves on the boards of directors at EVRAZ Plc, Nilar AB, Hövding AB, and the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Exchange (MOEX).

From October 2020 - General director of MVM LLC, General director of PJSC "M.video" and Chairman of the Executive Board of PJSC "M.video"

Biography

Ms Ivanova has over 20 years of work experience in the consumer and retail sector. She was marketing director at several leading Russian and foreign companies, such as X5 Retail Group, CentrObuv, ORKLA (Norway). Prior to joining M.Video-Eldorado Group in 2019, Dagmara served as senior vice-president at Svyaznoy-Euroset (before 2018 – commercial director at Svyaznoy) where she was responsible for strategic planning, operations of over 5,000 retail stores with headcount exceeding 25,000 employees, marketing, category management and procurement,  e-commerce, logistics, financial services and HR. Ms. Ivanova graduated from the faculty of mechanics and mathematics at Moscow State University in 2002.

Biography

Mr Li has held managerial positions in household appliances and consumer electronics companies for over 15 years. Before moving to Eldorado, he worked as director of the Consumer Electronics Division of M.Video. From 2004 to 2008, he held the positions of manager and executive director of Eldorado and Sulpak (Kazakhstan); from 2001 to 2004, he was responsible for business development at the Philips Consumer Electronics Export representative office in Russia. He graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics. On 1 January 2018, Mr Li was appointed Managing Director of Eldorado, where he is responsible for operational management of the company, retail and marketing, and customer service.

Biography

Ms Sokolova has 20 years of experience in finance. She began her career at Deloitte, where she spent eight years working in various departments. In 2004, she moved to TNK-BP during the merger of TNK and BP, where she headed up the financial service for the retail business. After six years, she became the head of the finance function for the processing and trading unit. As a result of TNK-BP’s merger with Rosneft, Ms Sokolova took a similar position in 2013 as the head of finance for the processing and trading unit. She joined M.Video in 2016 as finance director. She holds an MBA from California State University, ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) professional certification, as well as certificates of participation in INSEAD programmes in France and Singapore and at the Kellogg School of Management in the United States. She is currently the Chief Financial Officer of M.Video–Eldorado Group.

Biography

Alexander Sokolovsky heads an integrated IT Department at M.Video-Eldorado Group and is responsible for the improvement of the IT platform and the overall IT development of the Company and its two retail brands. Before joining M.Video-Eldorado, Alexander was Managing Director at SberDevices (part of Sberbank ecosystem). He graduated from the Samara State Aerospace University in 2002 with a degree in Automated Data Processing and Management Systems and has over 20 years of experience in IT, including digital transformation, microservice architecture and big data platforms. He has held management positions in industry-leading companies in Russia (Sberbank, Leroy Merlin, Russian Direct Investment Fund, EPAM Systems), France and Kazakhstan.

Biography

Victoria Kunina has been heading M.Video-Eldorado’s Digital Transformation Directorate since late 2020. In addition to extensive expertise in project management, she boasts a long track record of implementing large-scale transformational changes. She started her career at Deloitte in 2004, where she worked for five years as a consultant on the transformation of logistics and production processes and implementation of information systems. Ms Kunina joined M.Video in 2009 and climbed all the way up the career ladder from a project manager to a director of the division responsible for innovations in the company, taking an active part in all key business changes. In 2017, she headed the integration office to merge M.Video and Eldorado into a single group. In 2005, Victoria graduated from the Moscow State Industrial University with a degree in Applied Computer Science in Economics.

Biography

Natalya Maleeva’s professional experience counts almost 20 years of HR-managment in leading foreign and Russian companies. Natalya graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in Psychology, is a Candidate of Psychological Sciences, has a university degree in economics. Received an MBA degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management. In 2017, Natalia studied at the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management (“Managing a Company in the Context of Digital Transformation”), has a certificate from INSEAD Business School for the Leading Digital Transformation Program. Natalia’s professional career began at Troika Dialog, one of the leading Russian investment companies. Subsequently, Natalya led the personnel management divisions in a number of large Russian and international corporations, including Mary Kay, Karo-Film, Provident Financial PLC and IFD Kapital. Prior to joining M.Video in 2010 as a Director of Human Resources, Natalya led the work of the Human Resources Department at Detsky Mir. Since 2018, she has been heading the combined HR function of the M.Video-Eldorado Group.

Biography

Mr Simanov graduated from the Riga Higher Military Aviation Engineering School and completed postgraduate studies at the N.E. Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. He holds a PhD in Technical Sciences. In 2003, he graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Russian–German Higher School of Management) with a specialisation in economics and enterprise management. He holds an MBA. He has 21 years of experience in retail. He started his career at Sportmaster as a store manager, and then worked as the retail manager at Pan sportsmen and as the sales director at Tvoe. In 2006, he moved to M.Video as the regional expansion director for Siberia before later becoming the Operating Director for Expansion. He has been the Retail Expansion Director for M.Video–Eldorado Group since 2018.

Biography

Mr Sukhov graduated from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia with a degree in law, and he has an LLM degree. He began his professional career at Transmashholding, a leader in the Russian transport engineering market. His professional activities have included numerous mergers and acquisitions, including JSC Metrovagonmash, PJSC Luganskteplovoz (Ukraine), JSC REZ (Latvia), JSC Lisichanskaya soda (Ukraine), LLC Russian Coal–Kuzbass, LLC ELDORADO and others. Since 2008, Mr Sukhov has headed up various departments in the companies of Safmar Group; since February 2011, he has been the Deputy CEO for Corporate and Property Relations of JSC Russian Coal. In May 2017, he became Vice President for Corporate and Legal Relations of Eldorado. Since 2018, he has been the head of the Corporate and Legal Relations Division of M.Video–Eldorado Group.

Biography

In 1996, Mr Golyshev graduated from the Institute of the Federal Security Service of Russia; in 2003, from the Academy of the Federal Security Service of Russia; and, in 2008, from the Russian Civil Service Academy under the President of the Russian Federation. From 1994 to 2009, he served in the Federal Security Service of Russia. He is a lieutenant-colonel in the reserves. From 2009 to 2016, he worked in senior positions at KIN Group, where he oversaw the safety of production and commercial processes, as well as the security of tangible and intangible assets. In 2017, he was appointed Deputy CEO of Eldorado, and he has been the Security Director for M.Video–Eldorado Group since 2018.

Biography

Mr Muraviev has 21 years of experience in the area of consumer electronics and digital equipment. He came to M.video in 2009 as the head of the Audio-Video Division; he has been the head of the Commercial Division since 2016. He previously held various management positions at LG Electronics Rus and BSH Hausgeräte (the Bosch/Siemens representative office in Russia). Mr Muraviev has expertise in the areas of management and marketing, with higher degrees in two specialisations: the first in management (MAMI) and the second in marketing (MIRBIS). In 2005, he also received an MBA in marketing (MIRBIS).

Biography

Ms Dementieva has been working for M.Video since 1996. She has extensive experience in various areas of distribution and logistics: strategic modelling, warehousing and transport logistics, customs clearance and import, fulfilment of online sales, as well as procurement and inventory management. For the last four years, she has been the head of Supply, Distribution and Logistics at M.Video, and she has been in charge of this function in the consolidated M.Video–Eldorado Group since 2018. Ms Dementieva is among the top five logistics and supply chain directors in her segment, according to the Top 1,000 Russian Managers rating by the Russian Managers Association. She holds an Executive MBA from the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.