Management

Darren Nicholls has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of SUEK’s Coal Division since October 2021.

Career

Mr. Nicholls has nearly 40 years’ experience in coal mining, starting literally “at the coal face.” For the last 11 years he served Glencore Coal Australia in various management positions, including the role of Director of Underground Operations. Mr. Nicholls also brings a wealth of international experience coupled with a very strong practical application to coal mining.

Education and qualifications

Mr. Nicholls has the 3rd Class, 2nd Class and 1st Class Mine Managers qualification in Australia.

Roman Golovin was appointed Director for Strategy of JSC SUEK in November 2021.

Career

From April 2020 to October 2021, Roman Golovin served as Director of Economics and Production Analysis of JSC SUEK's Coal Division.

Prior to joining SUEK, he worked for 7 years at senior positions in the field of strategic management at Rosatom State Corporation. Roman has vast expertise in strategic consulting for energy and industrial companies, having worked for more than 6 years in leading international consulting companies Booz & Company and Deloitte.

Education and qualifications

Roman Golovin holds Master's degree in Economics with honors from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

Sergei was appointed Public Relations and Communications Director at SUEK in February 2007.

Career

Sergei’s early career began with the Soviet Union Association of Friendship Societies. From 1984 to 1990, he worked for the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, subsequently joining the USSR President’s Press Office. He was later a political observer and commentator for RIA Novosti. His roles also included advisor to the Chairman of the All-Russian State Television and Broadcasting Company and, in 2001, Chief of Staff of the Department of Presidential Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Between 2004 and 2006, Sergei was Vice President of the National Reserve Bank. He was then appointed Deputy General Director of the National Reserve Corporation.

In 2014, he was elected to the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. He was also appointed Chairman of the Commission on Development of the Real Sector of the Economy of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Education and qualifications

Sergei is a graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Pavel Knyazev was appointed as SUEK Human Resources Director in November 2021.

Career

Pavel moved to SUEK from the position of EuroChem HR Director. Previously, he was in the position of Head of the Department for Motivation and Management of Personnel Costs at EuroChem and AIM Holding, Deputy General Director at the Eastern Mining Company and Sollers Machine-Building Holding, and headed the HR departments at Evraz Group companies. Altogether, he has 20 years of experience in the field of human resources management and development.

Education and qualifications

Graduated from Skolkovo Moscow School of Management and Ulyanovsk State University with diplomas in "finance and credit” and "civil law".

Andrey Kostylev has held the position of Director of Service Business since June 2022. Oversees the work of the Group's service enterprises.

Career

Andrey has worked at SUEK JSC since June 2020 as Director for Project Control and Development of the Coal Division.

Prior to joining SUEK JSC, he held senior positions in the energy business: Rosatom (Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation), Gazprom and Volga Group.

Education and qualifications

Andrey Kostylev graduated with honors from Novosibirsk State University, obtained a master's degree from the Higher School of Economics. He is a candidate of economic sciences with a degree in economics and management of the national economy (environmental economics).

Mikhail has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of NTC since November 2021.

In the first half of 1990s, Mikhail Kuznetsov worked in banking.

In 1995-2003, he was a member of the Russian Federation State Duma, the deputy Chairman of the Budgeting, Taxes, Banking and Finance Committee, represented Pskov Region. In 2004-2009, Mikhail Kuznetsov was the Governor of Pskov Region.

Mikhail established "Grazhdanskaya Pressa" association of independent media (Pskov).

From 2013 to 2018, Mikhail was the Chief Executive Officer of the Siberian Generating Company.

He has been a member of the Board of SUEK since December 2020.

Mikhail graduated from the Physics Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Alexey Lozuyk has held the position of Chief Commercial Officer since August 2022.

Career

From January 2022 to July 2022, Alexey Lozuyk held the position of Deputy General Director - Commercial Director for the CIS, being responsible for the development and further improvement of the system of commercial operations in Russia and CIS countries.

From 2015 to 2018, Alexey Lozuyk worked in the commercial department of Archer-Daniels-Midland Company in UK, Netherlands and Germany, and then was responsible for trading of non-core products at SUEK AG.

Education and qualifications

Graduated at Cass Business School in London with a Master's degree in Energy, Trade and Finance.

Peter Maximov has accepted the role of General Counsel - SUEK commencing May 2022.

Career

Peter has extensive experience in Russian and International roles and has worked as General Counsel with some of the world’s largest and most influential companies. Peter has most recently headed the legal department at RUSAL, the largest Aluminum producer in the world and before that headed up the Legal Team at the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port.

Before working in the Industrial realm, Peter worked for several International Law firms including Debevoise & Plimpton, Coudert Brothers and Milbank, Tweed Hadley & McCoy.

Education and qualifications

Peter graduated from Moscow State University (with highest honors) and holds an LL.M degree from Columbia Law School, New York.

Denis Rakhimzhanov was appointed Director of Logistics at SUEK JSC in April 2022.

Career

Since 2003, Denis Rakhimzhanov has worked at JSC "Russian Railways". Since 2006, he held senior positions on West Siberian Railway - a branch of JSC "Russian Railways". In 2018-2019 he worked as the First Deputy Head of the West Siberian Railway, in 2019-2021 – the First Deputy Head of the Central management Directorate of Traffic.

Prior to joining SUEK, during the period from 2021 to 2022 he worked as Deputy General Director of Strategy and Marketing of JSC "Russian Railways Logistics".

Education and qualifications

Prior to joining SUEK, during the period from 2021 to 2022 he worked as Deputy General Director of Strategy and Marketing of JSC "Russian Railways Logistics".

He had three Letters of Acknowledgement from President of JSC "Russian Railways", insignia "Honorary Railwayman", and several ministerial awards.

Boris Chernicher was appointed Chief Financial Officer at SUEK JSC in May 2022.

Career

Boris Chernicher has vast experience in senior and leading positions in financial structures of major Russian companies, including VEON, Home Credit Russia, Genser, KPMG Russia.

Since 2021 and prior to joining SUEK, Boris was the Financial Director of Rusagro Group of Companies.

Education and qualifications

Graduated with honors from Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Information (MESI).

As well holds a diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Stepan was appointed General Director Chief Executive Officer of SGC in April 2022.

Career

Since 2004, he worked at the Russian office of McKinsey and was in charge of the electric power industry and heat supply in Russia and the CIS. Stepan supervised projects in the field of power generation, network development and operation, sales activities. Stepan has worked at SUEK since 2018, from November 2018 till May 2020 he was CEO of SGC. In this role, he solved the issues of upgrading the Group's energy facilities, developing the heat supply infrastructure, improving the environmental efficiency of power facilities. From May 2020 to April 2022, Stepan headed SUEK.

Education and qualifications

Stepan graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He specialised in regulatory and environmental aspects of the power industry.

Sergei Telyatnikov joined SUEK as the Director for Corporate Security in May 2022. He is responsible for the functioning of the economic security system, as well as the identification and prevention of threats and illegal activities at the Company's enterprises.

Career

Prior to joining SUEK, Sergey Telyatnikov has been working in law enforcement and security services at various positions for thirty years. He retired with the rank of colonel of the internal service.

Education and qualifications

Graduated from the Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, as well as the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) and majored in State and Municipal Administration.

Andrey Dyakonov was appointed to the position of General Director of Primorskugol LLC in June 2022.

Career

Andrey Dyakonov began his career in mining and engineering profession in 1987 at the enterprises of coal industry, among which the Pavlovsky Razrezostroitelnoe Management, the Northern Depression cut. From 2000 to 2003 he worked as an engineer at the Rakovsky mine.

From May 2003 to January 2021, Andrey held senior positions in mining department of Novoshakhtinskoye LLC Primorskugol, which is part of SUEK: from the position of head of mining section to chief engineer and director of mining department. From end of January 2021 to the present time he holds the position of Director of JSC "Luchegorsky Coal mine".

Education and qualifications

Andrey Dyakonov holds Ph.D. in Technical Sciences of Moscow State Mining University.

Valentin Kalashnikov was appointed to the position of General Director of JSC "Urgalugol" in June 2022.

Career

Valentin's career began in JSC "Mine Zarechnaya", where he worked his way up from the head of the core production to the shift supervisor. From June of 2006 to February of 2008, he worked in senior positions at JSC "Processing Plant "Severnaya" and at the Processing Plant "Listvyazhnaya".

From February of 2008 to March of 2021, Valentin held senior positions at SUEK enterprises in Kuzbass: Deputy Director of the Taldinskaya-Zapadnaya Enrichment Mine, Head of the Kirov Mine Processing Plant, Deputy Technical Director of “SUEK-Kuzbass” and Director of the Processing Plant "SUEK-Kuzbass".

Since 2021, Valentin has been the head of the Department of Engineering, Processing and Quality of Coal at the Coal Division of JSC “SUEK”.

Education and qualifications

Graduated from the Ural State Mining and Geological Academy in Mineral processing, qualification "Engineer".

Alexander Kainov was appointed General Director of JSC “Razrez Tugnuisky” in April 2022

Career

Alexander began his career in 1993 at Safronovsky mine as a miner at surveyor works. Since 1995, he has held various positions in JSC “Razrez Tugnuisky” – he worked as master of mining track, allotment surveyor and deputy chief surveyor. Since 2010, he has held the position of Technical Director of JSC “Razrez Tugnuisky”.

Education and qualifications

Alexander Kainov graduated from Magadan Polytechnic College with a degree in Surveying, Irkutsk State Technical University with a degree in Surveying, has the qualification of a Surveyor – Mining engineer.

He is a Candidate of Technical Sciences. He was awarded “Miner's Glory” insignia of the 3^rd Class and has the honorary title of "Honored Engineer of the Republic of Buryatia".

Andrey Fyodorov was appointed General Director of JSC SUEK-Krasnoyarsk in 2007.

Career

From 1982 to 1991, Andrey worked as Overman at the Berezovsky open pit, production association Krasnoyarskugol in Sharypovo (in 2003, the Berezovsky open pit joined SUEK). He worked at the mine for over 20 years, rising from Overman to Chief Engineer of the enterprise. In 2005, he was invited to JSC SUEK-Krasnoyarsk to occupy the position of Technical Director. Since 2007, Andrey has served as General Director of JSC SUEK-Krasnoyarsk.

Andrey Fyodorov has the honorary title of the Honoured Miner of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of the Fuel and Energy Complex; Full Companion of the Miner’s Honour. He was awarded the golden badge of the Union of Coal Manufacturers.

Education and qualifications

Andrey graduated from Moscow Mining Institute in 1982 majoring in Physical Processes of Mining Practice. Candidate of Science (Engineering).

Yuri was appointed CEO of SUEK AG in March 2007.

Career

Between 1999 and 2003, Yuri worked in the sales department of an export division of Kuzbassrazrezugol. After a one year break, he returned to the coal mining industry as a lead manager in SUEK’s sales department.

In 2005, he continued with SUEK AG as a lead trader for the Atlantic region. In March 2007, he became CEO of the company.

Education and qualifications

Yuri graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University where he majored in Accounting and Auditing.

His career began at Sorsk Molybdene Combine Works (currently, Sorsky GOK LLC). From 1987 until 1998, Alexey held the position of Opencast Mining Head, then, up to the year 2000, Production Director of Sorsky GOK LLC.

In January 2000, in the crisis, Alexey was appointed Head of OJSC Zhirekensky GOK, where he held the position of General Director until October 2001.

In 2002, Alexey became Head of SUEK representative office in Chernogorsk, and after its transformation to the company's branch, was appointed Branch Manager in 2003.

Alexey Kilin is the author of scientific papers in the area of blasting operation innovation, and, since 2005, the full member of the Russian Academy of Mining. Since the establishment of the regional industrial association LLC SUEK-Khakasia in the Republic of Khakassia in 2007 engaged in the extraction and enrichment of coal, Alexey has been at its head.

He has been awarded the medal of the Order of National Merit of I and II degrees, is Full Companion of the Miner’s Honour and the Honorary Worker of the Fuel and Energy Complex.

Education and qualifications

Alexey graduated from Krasnoyarsk Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals named after M.I. Kalinin, majoring in Technology and Overall Mechanization of Surface Mining; Mining Engineer, Candidate of Science (Engineering).

Alexey Rykovanov has been General Director of JSC Murmansk Commercial Seaport since November 2019.

Career

From 2004 to 2009, he worked as Deputy General Director for Capital Construction at OJSC Posyet Commercial Port.

In 2009, he was appointed Managing Director of LLC Mechel Engineering — OJSC Dalvostniiproektugol.

In 2011-2014, Alexey was Branch Director of LLC Mechel Engineering — Dalniiproekt. In February 2014, he began working as Deputy General Director for Capital Construction — Development Director of JSC Murmansk Commercial Seaport.

Since November 2019, he has been General Director of JSC Murmansk Commercial Seaport.

Education and qualifications

Alexey graduated from the Siberian State Industrial University with a degree in Industrial and Civil Engineering. He upgraded his qualification in the “Finance, money circulation and credit” sphere and he finished a training course “Management in the innovation sector”.