OREANDA-NEWS. November 6, 2012. MDM Bank announces the appointment of Roman Vitkovskiy, Vice President of Business Development in the Ural Region, as Member of the Management Board. The Board of Directors adopted this decision in its meeting held on October 23. Mr. Vitkovskiy will represent the Urals Territorial Bank on the Management Board.

The election of Roman Vitkovskiy to the Management Board had been earlier approved by the Central Bank of Russia.

Mr. Vitkovskiy brings nearly two decades of financial services management experience to the Bank.

Early in his career he worked in the credit department of Severnaya Kazna Bank, one of the largest retail banking operations in the Urals. Later, he rose to become Deputy Chairman of the Management Board during the period when the Bank was one of the first in Russia to launch chip cards and was also a market leader in developing reciprocity amongst ATM networks and offering Internet banking services.

He joined MDM from Alfa-Bank where as a Regional Sales Manager he was responsible for driving significant business growth, well ahead of other regions as well as improving the quality of customer service.

Mr. Vitkovskiy graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Ural State University and also studied at the graduate school of the Ural Academy of Public Administration.