OREANDA-NEWS. October 19, 2012. Viktor Kuzmenko has been appointed head of the Stavropol Branch of VTB Bank. Senior Vice President Chaba Zentai, head of the Regional Network Department at VTB, introduced the new general manager to the bank employees, reported the press-centre of VTB.

The appointment was made as part of a wider policy aimed at improving the efficiency of VTB Bank’s regional branches. The bank is reorganising its regional network, leaving only seven branch offices as fully-fledged branches while reorganising 44 others into operational offices. The goal is to make the regional network more efficient by centralising services and operational functions. The changes will help to improve customer service and enable regional branches to concentrate entirely on business development. The Stavropol branch is the central branch of the North Caucasus Federal District.

"We are constantly working on strengthening our regional management team," Zentai said. "Viktor Kuzmenko has extensive experience in the banking sector of the Stavropol Territory. I am confident that his appointment will reinforce the bank’s foothold in the North Caucasus and promote the region’s economic growth".

During his visit to Stavropol, Zentai also met with the head of the regional administration Yuri Tyrtyshov. They discussed the potential for the region’s cooperation with the bank. The bank’s executive also met with representatives of the Central Bank’s department for the Stavropol Territory and with VTB Bank’s main clients in the region.

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Viktor Kuzmenko was born in Stavropol in 1979. He graduated from Stavropol State Agrarian University, Faculty of Credit and Finance, in 2001, with a degree in Banking. 

In 2002, he gained his PhD from the National Institute of Agricultural Economy in Moscow. Kuzmenko started his banking career in Stavropolpromstroibank in 2001. 

In 2004, he was appointed head of UniCredit Bank’s representative office in Stavropol, and promoted to corporate director of the bank’s Krasnodar Branch in 2007. In 2008, he launched a project to reorganise UniCredit’s Stavropol representative office into a branch which he headed in 2009.