OREANDA-NEWS. March 03, 2011. TransTeleCom Ltd. (TTK), the parent company of Russia’s largest backbone network carrier, has announced staff appointments made within TTK’s new organizational structure approved by the Board of Directors, reported the press-centre of TTK.

Svetlana Shamzon, who was previously an advisor to the company’s President, has been appointed TTK’s Vice President, Head of the Access Department. In her new position Ms. Shamzon will be responsible for developing services for private customers.

Vitaliy Kotov, who was previously First Vice Present of Business Conduct, has been appointed TTK’s Vice President, Head of the Backbone Network Department. In his new position Mr. Kotov will manage sales of communications services to large corporate customers and carriers.

Evgeniy Tarakin, who previously headed the Project Management Department, has been appointed TTK’s Vice President, Head of the System Integration and Construction Department. Mr. Tarakin will manage projects to build communications facilities for large customers and public sector organizations.

Shukhrat Ibragimov, who was previously an advisor to TTK’s President, has been appointed TTK’s Vice President, Strategic Development. Mr. Ibragimov’s responsibilities will include implementing a development strategy for the TTK Group of Companies and improving the company’s business processes.

Vyacheslav Sotnik will remain as TTK’s First Vice President, Economics and Finance.

“TTK’s senior managers are highly qualified specialists who share our philosophy and strategic objectives. The new appointments will become a catalyst for advancing all of TTK’s lines of business and a strong foundation for forming a real business team within the company,” TTK President Artem Kudryavtsev said confidently.

The basis of TTK’s new organizational structure consists of three independent business units: Access, Backbone Network and System Integration and Construction. Each of the units is focused on serving a specific customer category and will be involved in both sales and technical support of their business activities.

Biographies
Svetlana Shamzon
In 1983, she graduated with honors in Radio Engineering from Moscow Power Engineering Institute, and for the next 15 years worked at various positions at MGTS OJSC. In 1998, she moved to Personal Communications OJSC (SONET Cellular Communications trademark), where she became First Deputy CEO in 2002 and CEO in 2003. In 2004, she was appointed Director of the Moscow Macroregion of MTS OJSC. In 2007-2008, she worked as a Business Director for the AiRUnion airline group. She has been an advisor to the President of TTK since 2010, and in February 2011 was appointed Vice President, Head of the Access Department.

Vitaliy Kotov
Vitaliy Kotov was born in 1974. In 1997, he graduated from Applied Mathematics from the Dzerzhinsky Military Academy. He worked in the marketing department of Telmos OJSC. From 2002 to 2004 he headed the marketing division and then became Deputy Business Director at RosTeleCom OJSC. He has been working at TTK since December 2004, where he was responsible for development of voice services, and for all of TTK’s sales starting in May 2010. In February 2011, in connection with the transition to the new organization structure, he was appointed Vice President, Head of the Backbone Network Department.

Evgeniy Tarakin
Evgeniy Tarakin was born in 1971. In 1993, he graduated in Radio and Wire Communications from the Military Space Engineering Academy. In 1994, he became Business Director at RANVEL LLP. In 1996, he was appointed Deputy Director of Motto-1 LLC; and in 1998, he moved to Personalniye Kommunikatsii OJSC, where he worked in a number of management positions. He was appointed Department Head at Sistema Multimedia CJSC in 2004. In 2006, he became COO and then CEO of Technoprogress LLC. He moved to InterProject LLC in 2008 to take up the position of Business Development Director. In 2010, he was appointed head TTK’s Project Management Department, and in February 2011, he became Vice President, Head of the System Integration and Construction Department.

Shukhrat Ibragimov
Shukhrat Ibragimov was born in 1983. He graduated from State University Higher School of Economics in 2006. From 2005 to 2008, he held various positions at AFK Sistema. During those three years, he advanced from the position of analyst in the Department of Strategy, Investments and Regional Development at MTU-Intel CJSC to Project Manager in the Business Development Department of Sistema Mass-Media OJSC. In 2008-2009, he has been working as a Business Development Director at Tsyfrovoye teleradioveschaniye LLC. In 2010, he was appointed Director of the Strategy and Marketing Department at FGUP Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network. In the same year, Mr. Ibragimov joined TTK as an advisor to the President. In February 2011, he was appointed Vice President, Strategic Development.

Vyacheslav Sotnik
Vyacheslav Sotnik was born in 1974. He graduated as a specialist in Public and Municipal Administration from the North-West Academy of Public Administration of the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. He has been working at TTK since 2005. He has been holding the positions of an advisor to the President, Director of the Strategic Planning Department and Head of the Department of Economics and Investments. Prior to joining the company, he worked at RosTeleCom OJSC and PeterStar CJSC. He is currently pursuing studies in the CMA (Certified Management Accountant) program at the Institute of Management Accounting. He has certificates from the IAB (International Association of Book-keepers) and IFA (Institute of Financial Accountants).