Pleskonos takes PIK Group board of directors chairmanship
MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Dmitry Pleskonos has become the chairman of the PIK Group board of directors, the company said on Thursday.
"Mr. Pleskonos has been elected to PIK Group's Board of Directors by the Extraordinary General Shareholder Meeting on March 11, 2014. He has more than twenty years of work experience at international corporations and is currently an Independent Director of QIWI Plc. as well as a member of the Supervisory Board of Production Association KONTI (Donetsk, Ukraine). From 2004 to 2011, Mr. Pleskonos held senior management positions at VimpelCom, the latest being a position of an Executive Vice President of Mass Market Business Development for Russia from 2009 to 2011. Dmitry Pleskonos is a graduate of the Kiev Higher Engineering Radio-Technical School of Air Defense and the Military Diplomatic Academy of Armed Forces Central Command," the company said.
The PIK shareholders elected a board of directors at an extraordinary general meeting on March 12.
Four new directors were elected to the board, while the remaining five directors retained their seats. The board was joined by Alexei Blanin, CEO of LLC Real Estate Development Solutions (AB Development, owned by Kirill Androsov's Altera Capital); former Deposit Insurance Agency deputy CEO Marina Zinovina; former Vimpelcom vice president Pleskonos; and Marina Grenberg, managing director of Alexander Mamut's A&NN.
Reelected to the board were PIK president Pavel Poselenov; Sberbank CIB managing director Dmitry Kanushkin (Sberbank is the developer's main creditor); Ilya Stepanischev, director of the Investment Banking Service Center at B&N Bank ; Zumrud Rustamov, deputy head of Polymetal; and Jean Pierre Saltiel, partner at Lose and Partners Vostok.
The board no longer includes Vladislav Mamulkin, managing director of Nafta Moskva's Moscow office; Anna Kolonchina, director at Nafta Moskva's representative office; Robert Tsenin, director of Centro Properties Group; and Stuart Lee Timmins, head of the Moscow office of Hines International.
Billionaire Suleyman Kerimov's Nafta Moskva sold its stake in PIK Group to Rosbuilding founder Sergei Gordeyev (19.9%) and Alexander Mamut (16.2%) in December 2013. B&N Bank owner Mikhail Shishkhanov owns 14.9% of the developer and 49.18% of shares are in free float. As of January 22, Russia's Central Bank held 42.13% of PIK shares as collateral in repo deals.
