OREANDA-NEWS. July 18, 2014. Herman Gref, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia, signed orders on the appointments of Nikolai Tsekhomsky, Alexei Mekhonoshin and Natalia Dirks as Senior Vice Presidents of Sberbank.

Nikolai Tsekhomsky – Executive Board Member and Director of Finance Department of Sberbank. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy for Engineering and Economics and has a PHD in Economics. Nikolai has worked at Sberbank since November 2012. Prior to his current role, he was Group CFO at VTB.

Alexei Mekhonoshin runs the HR function at Sberbank. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute and has also completed a course at the International Executive MBA in Madrid. Alexei has worked at Sberbank since December 2013. Prior to Sberbank, he was the Senior Vice President for integration at PepsiCo.

Natalia Dirks is the Head of the Operational Block. She graduated from the Perm Polytechnic Institute and The All-Russian State Distance-Learning Institute of Finance and Economics. Natalia has worked at Sberbank since August 2010. Prior to joining Sberbank she was First Deputy Chairman of the Board & Director of the Operations Group at Banca Intesa CJSC.