OREANDA-NEWS. October 27, 2010. OTKRITIE Bank, one of the leading financial groups in Russia, announces the appointment of three further hires to its Equity Business, as the firm continues to build up its Equity team in London and Moscow, reported the press-centre of OTKRITIE.

Georgy Mirel joins OTKRITIE as Managing Director and Head of Derivatives and Equity Financing, focusing on Russian and international clients. Before joining OTKRITIE, Georgy was Head of Derivatives at Troika Dialog. Prior to that, he was a fixed income trader at Citigroup. Georgy graduated Columbia Business School MBA program in 2003.

Maxim Orlovsky has been appointed Director of Domestic Sales. Maxim’s strong expertise in the Russian small & mid caps equities will be integral in developing the domestic equity business.  Before coming on board, he worked as an equity trader at TKB Capital. 2007 - 2008, Maxim was a portfolio manager at Prosperity Capital Management. Maxim graduated from the Moscow K.A. Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 2001.

Ali Albetkov has been named Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Capital Markets. Most recently, Ali worked as COO of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities at Renaissance Capital. Prior to that, Ali was Deputy CFO and Head of Treasury at Magnezit Group. From 1996-2002 Ali worked at United Financial Group as Deputy Head of Treasury department. He graduated from the Financial Academy of the Government of Russian Federation.

Igor Vayn, Head of Capital Markets at OTKRITIE, commented: “We are very pleased to welcome these new additions to our rapidly expanding team. The Derivatives business is key for us as we broaden our product range and seek to secure our place in the top ranks of the Russian equity and derivatives broker market. With persistent elevated volatility and mispricing of risk, we see tremendous opportunities going forward to grow our derivatives business. It is vital that we attract staff of the highest quality and experience across all business units. Their knowledge and experience will be invaluable and we look forward to working with them. We are confident that our recent appointments will herald a new era in our corporate development."