OREANDA-NEWS. July 12, 2012. NK RussNeft Board of Directors has appointed Mikhail Shamolin as its Chairman.

Mikhail Shamolin was born in 1970. In 1992 he graduated from Moscow Institute of Road Traffic, later in 1993 from Russian Academy of State Service under the President of the RF. In 1996 – 1997 he has completed Executive Education Program at Wharton Business School of Finance and Management.

From 2005 he worked in MTS as Vice President for Sales and Customer Service, and then as Vice President and Director of the Business unit ‘MTS Russia’. From the years 1998 – 2004 he worked in international consulting company McKinsey & Co. In 2004 – 2005 he worked as Managing Director of the Ferroalloys Division at Interpipe Corp. (Ukraine).

In 2008 he was appointed President of MTS, in March 2011 – President of Sistema, JSFC.