OREANDA-NEWS. On 01 June 2009 was announced, that Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval Volodymyr Lavrenchuk has been recognized best top manager in the banking sector of Ukraine under the rating "TOP-100. Best Top Managers of Ukraine". The results of this influential rating of the InvestGazeta newspaper were published in the magazine "TOP-100. Rating of Best Companies of Ukraine" (No.1-2, April-May 2009).

V. Lavrenchuk has been also named among the best managers of companies of all industries of Ukraine’s economy — by results of opinion polling, he took the eighth place in the rating of the country’s 100 best top managers. Experts also recognized him as best manager in terms of introduction of information technologies and systems.

As the edition notes, while assessing Volodymyr Lavrenchuk’s managerial qualities, experts — leaders of other companies expressed many positive judgements about Raiffeisen Bank Aval, its willingness to support the economy even in today’s difficult times, as well as about Mr. Lavrenchuk’s eagerness to explain the current processes in the banking sector to the mass media and the society and his active participation in discussions with other bankers for searching solutions necessary for the financial sector development.

The rating "TOP-100. Best Top Managers of Ukraine" was based on surveying opinions of top managers of Ukrainian companies in different industries of the economy, which assessed the activity of one another in their market segments. The assessment of candidates was based on three groups of criteria, characterizing the personal and corporate efficiency of a top manager and also the success of the enterprise/institution he heads.

Earlier, in the beginning of the current year, Volodymyr Lavrenchuk was also named best manager in Ukraine’s banking sector under the rating "Guard of Leaders 2008", published by the Halytski Kontrakty publishing house.