OREANDA-NEWS. On May 26, 2008 the General Shareholders Meeting of Farlep-Invest decided to appoint Yu.B.Chuikov CEO of the company, reported the press-centre of SCM.

Mr Chuikov was appointed acting CEO of Farlep-Invest on 27 March, 2008 superseding Stan Abbeloos.

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Farlep-Optima Telecom Group is Ukraine's largest private fixed line operator, with market share of over 8%. The Group was established in late 2005 after acquisition and further consolidation of Optima Telecom and Farlep. Farlep-Optima Telecom belongs to SCM Group.

OAO Farlep-Invest is the managing company of Farlep - Optima Telecom telecommunication provider that includes subsidiaries, branches, affiliates, among them: Optima Telecom, Vilcom, Matrix, and Ucomline, a long distance and local line provider.

Along with fixed long distance/local line services, Group companies provide a wide range of data transmission and Internet access services.

OAO Farlep-Invest is 99.88% owned by SCM (System Capital Management) Limited (Cyprus).  Farlep-Invest belongs to Farlep-Optima Telecommunication Group.

Yuriy B. Chuikov was born on 30 March, 1958 in Kiev.

He graduated from Engineering and Physical Department of Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1981; in 1993-1997 he attended five practical courses on telecommunication management, marketing, and sales in KPN Telecom (the Netherlands); in 1996 he received MBA degree in General and Strategic Management from American University (USA) and Maastricht School of Management (the Netherlands).

Mr Chuikov started his career in telecommunications in 1992, having taken position of commercial director of Kievelektrosvyaz, and continued in UMC. Later he worked as senior manager in Ukrainian Telesystems, Golden Telecom GSM, Golden Telecom LLC Ukraine, Ukrainian High Technologies. Since Novemeber 2007 Yuriy Chuikov has been CEO of MMDS-Ukraina

He was awarded Honorary Telecommunications Worker of Ukraine in 2007.