OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2013. The General shareholders meeting was held and changes in the Supervisory Board was approved.

Rushan Khvesyuk, Chief Executive Officer of Alfa-Bank Ukraine and Alexander Lukanov, President of Alfa-Bank Ukraine joined the Supervisory Board. Edward Kaufman was removed from the Supervisory Board.

Due to recent changes the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine is expanded to ten members.

As reported previously, in line with the shareholder plans to strengthen Alfa-Bank Ukraine, the position of President and Chief Executive Officer were separated. Rushan Khvesyuk has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Alfa-Bank Ukraine. Alexander Lukanov has been appointed as President of Alfa-Bank Ukraine.

Rushan Khvesyuk – Chief Executive Officer of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, a Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine. Prior to the appointment served as Chief Executive Officer of Alfa-Banking Group, a Member of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank Russia. He joined Alfa-Bank in 1994, and from 1995 to 2002 he was Head of the Legal Department. From 2002 to 31 August 2011 Mr. Khvesyuk served as Chairman of the Executive Board of Alfa Bank Russia. Previously, he worked at the legal firm Legist from 1991-1994, at the USSR Ministry of Justice in 1991, at the Department of Justice of the Moscow Regional Council from 1989-1991, and in the Military Court from 1986-1987. Mr. Khvesyuk graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Law in 1994. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Board of the Russian Banks Association, a member of the Advisory Board of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia (Russia Association), and since 2002, he has been a member of Coordination Council of the Russian Lawyers’ Association.

Alexander Lukanov – President of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, a Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine. Prior to the appointment served as President, Chief Executive Officer of Alfa-Bank Ukraine. He joined Alfa-Bank Ukraine in February 2006. Mr. Lukanov has over 17 years of banking experience. Currently, he is also a member of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Banking Group. Until 2005, he served as Head of Corporate Banking and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank Russia. He was Chairman of the Board of Alfa-Bank subsidiaries in Belarus and Kazakhstan, a member of the Board of Trade House Perekryostok (X5 Retail Group), and a member of the Board of Directors of Alfa Strakhovanie. Prior to joining Alfa-Bank Russia, he served as Chairman of the Executive Board of one of the first venture capital funds in Russia, SPF Kontakt XXI.

Alfa-Bank (Ukraine) is a member of the international consortium Alfa Group, and is one of the top banks in Ukraine.

Alfa Group is one of Russia’s largest privately owned financial-industrial conglomerates, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, water supply and water disposal, as well as other industrial-trade and specialized investments.