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Sergey Mikhailov has been Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Cherkizovo Group since 2006. Mr. Mikhailov led Cherkizovo Group during its successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, making the Group the first Russian agricultural company listed on the LSE. Since 2006, Cherkizovo has been expanding rapidly and developing its business in Russia and it is now the country’s largest vertically integrated agricultural company and meat producer.

In 2001, Mr. Mikhailov was Marketing Director of Cherkizovo Meat Processing Plant. He was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the plant in 2002 and, a year later, he became its Chief Executive Officer.

In 1998, he founded the telecommunications company, aTelo, Inc., in the United States and was its CEO until 2001. In 1998, he trained as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs before moving to Morgan Stanley in 1999.

Sergey Mikhailov has been Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Cherkizovo Group since 2006. Mr. Mikhailov led Cherkizovo Group during its successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, making the Group the first Russian agricultural company listed on the LSE. Since 2006, Cherkizovo has been expanding rapidly and developing its business in Russia and it is now the country’s largest vertically integrated agricultural company and meat producer.

In 2001, Mr. Mikhailov was Marketing Director of Cherkizovo Meat Processing Plant. He was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the plant in 2002 and, a year later, he became its Chief Executive Officer.

In 1998, he founded the telecommunications company, aTelo, Inc., in the United States and was its CEO until 2001. In 1998, he trained as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs before moving to Morgan Stanley in 1999.

Emin Mammadov is an experienced senior manager with more than 20 years of expertise in the FMCG sector in emerging markets, including diverse experience of managing business units of large multinational companies in the RIMEA region (Russia, India, Middle East and Africa) and in China.

Emin Mammadov is an experienced senior manager with more than 20 years of expertise in the FMCG sector in emerging markets, including diverse experience of managing business units of large multinational companies in the RIMEA region (Russia, India, Middle East and Africa) and in China.

Ludmila Mikhailova has been the Group’s CFO since 2006. Her responsibilities include determining the Group's financial policy and managing internal and external financial statements. She is in charge of budgeting and sourcing funds for the Company’s development.

Between 2001 and 2004, Ludmila Mikhailova worked as a financial analyst at McFarlane Gordon Inc, General Mills Co (Canada) and ING Barings (Great Britain). She then held a number of managerial positions at Cherkizovo Group and AIC Cherkizovsky.

A number of major transactions were implemented under Ludmila’s supervision, allowing the Group to consolidate approximately 13% of Russia’s national poultry market. In 2006, the company successfully carried out its IPO on the London Stock Exchange, raising over $250 mln.

Ludmila Mikhailova is ranked among the Top 1000 Russian Managers.

Maksim Zudin has been Director of Poultry Division at Cherkizovo Group since 2017. Since 2020 he has also been Head of Feed and Crop segments. 

From 2015 till 2018 Maksim was Head of Agro Division of Cherkizovo Group. He was responsible for strategic development of pork, feed and crop production segments.

Prior to joining Cherkizovo Group, Maksim has been Head of oil production division in Solnechniye Produkti. Fr om 2003 till 2013 he was Head of Agro Division as well as a member of the management board in “Razgulay” Group wh ere he was responsible for the East branch and played a key role in the project “Krupa”.

He is a graduate of Moscow State University with a degree in Mechanics and Mathematics.

Evgeny Mikhailov is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cherkizovo Group PJSC. From 2004, he was also a member of the Board of Directors and First Deputy CEO of AIC Mikhailovsky OJSC. In 2002, he worked as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, and, in 2001, was an assistant to the Vice President of the American telecommunications company aTelo, Inc. in Washington DC. He graduated from the University of California (Los Angeles) in 2004 with a degree in Business Economics.

Since 2020 Ray Cheeks has been holding the position of Chief Operations Officer of Cherkizovo Group. Mr Cheeks has also been Production Director at Tambov Turkey since 2018. His responsibilities include overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations and ongoing activities in line with performance targets, including operational efficiency, costs, and quality. Prior to joining Cherkizovo Group, Mr Cheeks held senior positions in a number of major corporations, including Brown & Williamson Vintage Tobacco Coupons, Kraft Foods and POSS Design Limited. He graduated from Clemson University with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Richard Paul Sobel was elected to Cherkizovo Group’s Board of Directors in 2016. He is a recognized expert in the field of direct investment. As one of the pioneers of the Russian private equity industry, Mr. Sobel was a senior fund manager at Baring Asset Management (1994-1997) and at Alfa Capital Partners (2003-2011). He is founder and manager of Altai Advisors, a consulting company which specializes in providing advice on potential investment opportunities in Russia, CIS, Europe and the United States.

Previously Mr. Sobel was a consultant at Bain & Company in Boston, USA, and an investment executive in Moscow at Batterymarch Financial Management, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and CIBC Oppenheimer.

Evgeny Subbotin has served as Director for Logistics and Supplies at Supply Chain since 2017. He is responsible for integrating the logistics operations of the Poultry, Meat Processing and Turkey segments into a single centralized structure. He also oversees the effort to bring the planning functions of sales, production, and packaging and ingredient supply within a single planning unit. Mr Subbotin is also in charge of designing and bringing on stream the Route to Market project.

He has 17 years of experience in procurement and logistics, including 15 years of managing supply chain and procurement in major corporations like Carlsberg Group (Vena and Baltika Breweries), Danone Group (Danone, Nutricia), and SC Johnson.

He graduated from the St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering with a degree in Road Transportation Management and Logistics.

Vladislav Belyaev has been Head of IT since February 2012. Between 2008 and 2012, he was Head of the Enterprise Management Systems Department at Vimpel-Kommunikatsii OJSC. Prior to this, he held senior management positions at CafeMax CJSC and Moskovskiy Industrialny Bank OJSC. He is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics, and Automation and Moscow State University.

Konstantin Kononov holds the position of Foodservice Channel Executive Director since 2020. His tasks include implementation of Foodservice channel long-term strategy and sales development plan. He takes part in building of global Cherkizovo Commercial Strategy, develops and supports partnership relations with clients.

Before joining Cherkizovo, Konstantin held top management positions in major international FMCG companies. While at The Kraft Heinz Company, he was responsible for Foodservice line development on the markets of UK & Ireland, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Russia and CIS.  Prior to that, he took several sales positions at Unilever.

Konstantin has expertise as reorganization of developed businesses to achieve sustainable growth as to unlock new markets with building strategy, GTM, product portfolio and sales team.

Rafael Fuertes was elected to Cherkizovo Group’s Board of Directors in 2016. He has extensive experience in the agricultural industry, primarily in animal breeding, meat processing and crop farming.

Mr. Fuertes is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Fuertes, a leading Spanish agricultural holding company, which is a minority shareholder of Cherkizovo Group, owning 5.06% shares, and partner in the “Tambov Turkey” joint venture. He graduated from University of Murcia, Spain.

Alexander Krasnov was appointed as Director of the Legal Department of Cherkizovo Group in September 2021. He has many years of professional experience in FMCG companies.

In the period from 2008 to 2019, Alexander headed the legal department at Miratorg Holding. He has expertise in intellectual property protection and asset ownership restructuring, anti-monopoly matters, land bank management, M&A transactions support with Russian and foreign partners. From 2020 through 2021, Alexander worked for Zyfra Group of Companies, heading the intellectual property protection project.

Chris Warmoth’s career spans nearly 40 years of experience in consumer goods. He has worked extensively in Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America – with P&G, Coca Cola, Heinz and Carlsberg.

He started his career in marketing with P&G in the UK, moving to general management in Germany 10 years later. After a series of country managing director roles, he has had a series of regional positions.

His most recent roles have been EVP for Heinz in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa; EVP for Carlsberg in Asia and Africa; EVP for Carlsberg in Western Europe and he is currently EVP for Group Strategy in Carlsberg..

Elena Pavlova has been holding the position of HR and Organizational Development Director at Cherkizovo Group since 2021.

She has over 20 years of successful experience in various leadership positions in the field of personnel management in the largest international and Russian businesses, including Procter & Gamble, Danone, Pharmstandard.

Has experience in strategic HR projects related to personnel management system building based on business needs, organizational design, building of leadership teams, competence model development, as well as expertise in personnel assessment and development, HR brand strengthening and financial and non-financial incentive system transformation.

Michael Balay has more than 30 years experience in strategy in agriculture, commodities trading and primary industries. He received his MBA from the University of Virginia and joined McKinsey & Company, wh ere he was one of the early Fellows at the McKinsey Global Institute.

After seven years of management consulting, he became head of business development in Cargill’s corporate strategy group in Minneapolis and led long range planning and organizational design.

He spent three years in Switzerland as head of marketing for Cargill’s international grain and oilseeds business, supervising custom trading programs and services.

He returned to Minneapolis and became Head of Global Strategy. Since retiring from Cargill in 2016, he has been an independent consultant and director.

Prior to that she enjoyed 20 year experience in international business: exports sales of drinks, import of consumer goods and global FMCG brands development - Baltika, Carlsberg, Kronenbourg in CIS countries and Overseas.

Before 2004 Elena was a Head of Export Units in a number of leading pulp & paper businesses of North–West region of Russia.

Oleg Zakov is responsible for management of poultry, turkey, pork meat and sausage products sales as well as marketing, product portfolio and accounts receivable. In addition to that, he is responsible for business processes development aimed to improve Trade House economic efficiency.

Before joining Cherkizovo Group, Oleg held the position of Deputy General Director and Sales Director at Fazer Company.

Armen has more than 15 years of experience in meat processing. His early career started at Cherkizovsky Meat Processing Plant in 2005, where he started as a specialist and later became a senior technologist.

Between 2010 and 2014, Leonid was the Technical Director and Operational Cluster Director of AgroTerra LLC. Prior to this role, he held a number of senior management positions across a range of companies, including Russkiye Masla (now part of Kernel), Bunge, Unilever and Nestle Food.

Mr Gusakov has over 10 years of experience in corporate security. Prior to joining Cherkizovo Group, he worked in Henkel Rus, Zurich Insurance Company and Gazprom.

Between 1981 and 2005, he worked in state security services.

Before joining Cherkizovo Group, Akim held the position of Manufacturing Vice-President at Kraft Heinz. From 2000 to 2007 he worked at big international companies, including OTIS elevators and Ford Motor Company.