OREANDA-NEWS. August 19, 2015. The new members of the Board of Directors of RUSNANO approved on July 7, 2015 at the shareholders meeting elected Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, to be their Chairman.

It was also resolved to recommend the company’s shareholders to approve a new edition of the Regulation on Board of Directors of RUSNANO OJSC, where the position of the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors is to be approved, in the course of the next regular meeting. It was specifically noticed that it was planned to appoint Vladislav Putilin, the ex-Chairman of RUSNANO Board of Directors, to this position.

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RUSNANO was founded as an open joint stock company in March 2011, through reorganization of state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies. RUSNANO is instrumental in realizing government policies for nanoindustry growth, investing in financially effective high-technology projects that guarantee the development of new manufacturing within the Russian Federation. The company invests in nanotechnology companies directly and through investment funds. Its primary investment focus is in electronics, optoelectronics and telecommunications, healthcare and biotechnology, metallurgy and metalwork, energy, mechanical engineering and instrument making, construction and industrial materials, and chemicals and petrochemicals. The Government of the Russian Federation owns 100 percent of the shares in RUSNANO.

Work to establish nanotechnology infrastructure and carry out educational programs is fulfilled by RUSNANO’s Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs, which was also established during the reorganization of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies.

Management of the investment assets of RUSNANO are carried out by a limited liability company established in December 2013, RUSNANO Asset Management. Anatoly Chubais is chairman of its Executive Board.