Board of Directors

Andreas Blase
Biography
Vice President M&A / Portfolio Management, Ceconomy. Chief Investment Officer, Member of the Executive Board in MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group (MMSRG). From 2015 to 2016 took position of M&A Director in Federal Mpgul GmbH, from 2010 to 2015 worked as investment director in Capvic Equity Partners AG.

Said Gutseriev
Biography
Graduated from Plymouth Business School, Plymouth University in 2011. Graduated from St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, with an MA degree in 2014.
Entrepreneur, the major shareholder of SFI Investment Holding and M.Video-Eldorado Group, the founder and partner at Larnabel Ventures fund investing in new technologies in finance, education, marketing and AI. He is a member of the Board of Directors at SFI and PJSC "M.video".

Andrey Derekh
Biography
Mr. Derekh has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Deputy Director for Foreign Trade at UNITER Investment Company since 2012 and an independent director at RussNeft since 2016. In 2017–2021, he was also a director at PJSC M.video.Andrey graduated from Minsk Radio Engineering Institute with a degree in systems engineering in 1992 and the International Institute of Management of the Republic of Belarus with a degree in foreign trade in 1994. In 2000, he obtained a Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing before completing specialized training in development and management in the oil and gas sector for managers of the CIS based on the SABIT program in the USA in 2003.

Vilen Eliseev
Biography
Mr. Eliseev graduated from Kuban State University Kuban State Agrarian University, he has CFА (Chartered Financial Analyst) certificate of CFА Institute (USA).
Currently, he holds the position of Director of the Department of Investments and Capital Markets in PJSC SAFAI (SFI). From October 2017 to February 2019, he was a member of the Board of Directors of ELDORADO LLC. Member of the Board of Directors of PJSC M.video from 2017 to 2021.

Ekaterina Lapshina
Biography
2020 – present: Vice President, ER-Telecom Holding
2020 – present: Member, Board of Directors, ER-Telecom Holding
2019 – present: Member, Board of Directors, Stalmost
2019 – present: Member, Board of Directors, Spetsdorproekt
2019 – present: CEO, Ogodzha LLC
2017 – present: Founder and CEO, ERA Holding
2017 – present: CEO, ERA LLC
2017 – present: CEO, ERA-Dobycha LLC
2017 – present: CEO, ERA-Transportnye Resheniya LLC
2017 – present: CEO, Amur-Logistika LLC
2015 – present: Member, Board of Directors, RT-Razvitie Biznesa LLC
2019 – 2019: Member, Board of Directors, Epokha Digital
2015 – 2018: CEO, Marsfield Capital; Chairman of the Boards of Directors of portfolio companies
2015 – 2018: Director, YOTA
2016 – 2017: Member of the Management Board, Gemcorp Capital, System Capital Management JSC
2010 – 2015: Various positions at Marsfield Capital and portfolio companies, including Member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrtelecom; Chair of the Management Board’s Strategy Committee, Member of the Management Board of VegaTelecom
2008 – 2010: Head of the Investment Department and Junior Partner, Adela Holding Limited

Avet Mirakyan
Biography
In 1996 Mr. Mirakyan graduated from the Erevan state university with a major in “International economic relations”. He started his career in 1995 in the Monetary Policy Department of the Central Bank of Armenia. He later moved to the Banking Oversight Department of the Central Bank of Armenia. Over 1998-2007 Mr. Mirakyan worked in Arthur Anderson and Ernst & Young audit companies. In 2007 he was appointed the Senior Vice-President for finance (CFO) of OJSC “BINBANK”. In 2008-2009 he held a similar position with BNP Paribas (CIB, Russia). Over 2010-2015 Mr. Mirakyan was the Head of Consulting Services related to deals on financial markets in CIS countries and a partner at Ernst & Young. From 2016 till present he is the general director of the PJSC “SFI” (known as PJSC “SAFMAR Financial Investments” until September 2021). He is also the member of the Board of Directors of PJSC “Europlan”.

Riccardo Orcel
Biography
2021 – present: Vice Chairman, VTB Capital
2011 – 2021: Member, Executive Committee, VTB Capital
2011 – 2021: Managing Director, Head of Global Banking, VTB Capital
2012 – 2018: Non-Executive Director, EN+
2011 – 2021: VTB Bank
2014 – 2021: Senior Vice President, Head of International Client Coverage
2014 – 2021: Senior Vice President, Head of VTB International: VTB India, VTB Shanghai, VRB of Vietnam, VTB Serbia and VTB Angola
2014 – 2017: Member, Board of Directors, VTB Europe
2011 – 2014: Senior Vice President, Head of Russia and CIS Client Coverage Department
2011 – 2012: Deputy Chairman, Board of Directors, VTB Bank
2006 – 2011: Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (London, New York)
2008 – 2011: Managing Director, Member of the EMEA Executive Committee and Head of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Corporate and Investment Banking coordinating offices in Poland, Dubai, South Africa and Moscow
2009 – 2011: Managing Director, Member of the Executive Committee of Merrill Lynch Russia and Head of Russia Corporate and Investment Banking
2006 – 2009: Managing Director, Head of Financial Institutions for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa
2002 – 2005: ABN Amro
Managing Director, Head of the Bank Coverage Group for Europe
1997 – 2002: Polaris Partners (London)
Founding Partner, Polaris Capital
1988 – 1997: Merrill Lynch (London)
1995 – 1997: Head of EMEA Structured Finance Team
1993 – 1995: Co-Head of EMEA Financial Institution Group DCM
1988 – 1993: Coverage of Italy and Southern Europe for Financing and Derivative Products

Alexey Sukhov
Alexey Sukhov has been heading the Directorate for Corporate and Legal Relations of the M.Video-Eldorado Group since 2018, in 2022 he has been appointed as the General Director of PJSC M.video.
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 Metrowagonmash, PJSC Luhanskteplovoz (Ukraine), JSC REZ (Latvia), JSC Lisichanskaya soda (Ukraine), LLC Russian Coal–Kuzbass, LLC Eldorado and others. 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. After the creation of the M.Video-Eldorado Group, he headed the unified function for corporate and legal relations.

Enrique Fernandez
Biography
Mr Fernandez has more than 15 years of experience in the consumer electronics market in both manufacturing companies and in retail. Before moving to the retail consumer electronics industry, he held sales and marketing positions at Whirlpool Europe. From 2003 to 2007, Mr Fernandez held various management positions at Media-Saturn Holding GmbH. In his last position at Media-Saturn Holding, he was responsible for procurement for the MediaMarkt and Saturn brands. From 2007 to 2009, he served as Vice President for Procurement for Eldorado. Mr Fernandez joined M.Video in 2009 as a commercial director, and he became CEO of the company in 2016. Following the merger of M.Video and Eldorado in 2018, Mr Fernandez became the CEO of M.Video–Eldorado Group.