OREANDA-NEWS. On Thursday 21 July 2016, the Moscow Exchange (ticker MOEX) Supervisory Board appointed Anna Kuznetsova, Managing Director of MOEX"s Equity & Bond Market and Igor Marich, Managing Director of MOEX"s FX and Money Markets to be members of the Executive Board for two years.

These appointments increase the number of members of the Executive Board to six, now including two key front-office directors who have a 15-year history with the Exchange, as well as unique expertise and a track record of managing major exchange products and new projects.  Anna Kuznetsova and Igor Marich were nominated for those positions by the Supervisory Board in April 2016 and were subsequently approved by the Bank of Russia.

At present the Executive Board consists of CEO Alexander Afanasiev, Chief Financial Officer Evgeny Fetisov, Chief Information Officer Sergei Poliakoff and Chief Operating Officer Dmitry Shcheglov.

Anna Kuznetsova began her career in the financial markets at NAUFOR in 1999. In 2001, Anna joined the RTS Stock Exchange. In 2008, she continued at the MICEX Stock Exchange where she was in charge of the securities market. Anna directly supervised the implementation of three large-scale initiatives at the Moscow Exchange such as the migration of the Equity Market to T+2 settlements without full collateral required, transferring OFZs to the unified T+1 settlement cycle without full collateral required as well as reforms to the listing process. Anna graduated with honours from the Department of mechanics and mathematics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and in 1998 from Department of economics. She holds a PhD in physics and mathematics.

Igor Marich has been working for Moscow Exchange since 2000. Prior to joining the Exchange, he held different positions at banks where he was responsible for development of securities operations.  He was involved in reforming operations in government bonds and in establishing the regulated repo market. After being appointed as head of the Money and FX Market in 2011, Igor implemented a number of prominent projects such as the launch and development of repos with the CCP, reformation of the on-exchange FX market, and the launch of a new money market instrument on the basis of CCP-cleared repo. Igor graduated with honours from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He also completed INSEAD"s Transition to General Management programme.