Hires & Fires

By Marcus Williams.
The relaunched Aton Capital business  has hired Pavel Dushin from Unicredit Securities in Moscow to develop its fixed income business.
Dushin was reunited with former colleagues at Aton about two months ago when he joined the brokerage. He joined UniCredit in mid-2007 after the Italian bank completed the acquisition of the original Aton Capital for the snip price of $424m.
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By Ivan Anderzhanov.
US bank Citigroup has been hit by another senior Russian departure following Igor Chernomorskiy’s exit to rival JP Morgan.
Chernomorskiy was a vice president for emerging market sales in the CEEMEA region. He has been at the bank for over four years and previously worked in sales at UralSib and Troika Dialog.
Citigroup was rocked last month when Renaissance Capital hired three sales traders [...]

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By Andrei Skvarsky.
Sberbank has hired Yury Rovensky from Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group to run the largest Russian bank’s public relations department.
The position of PR chief at the state-controlled lender, one of the jobs carrying the title of vice president, had remained vacant for about a year before it was given to Rovensky, who quit as general director of Russian [...]

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By Marcus Williams.
US bulge bracket bank Citigroup has named Slava Slavinskiy as head of energy banking for EMEA to take over from Julian Mylchreest.
Slavinskiy joined Citigroup in 1998, covering Russia and the former CIS countries.
Mylchreest quit to join Bank of America Merrill Lynch last month as co- head of global energy and power [...]

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By Andrei Skvarsky.
Will Hammond,  global equity sales head Troika Dialog, has parted company with the Moscow brokerage a little over three months after joining.
Hammond’s appointment to the job in April was one of Troika’s big signings since it sold a third of the company to South Africa’s Standard Bank
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By Andrei Skvarsky.
Russia’s MDM Bank slashed its executive board by one-third last week in a restructuring proposed by the firm’s new chief executive, Sergei Timofeyev.
All the 10 members of the new board, including Timofeyev, are to serve under five-year contracts as part of the managerial reform, praised by MDM chairman Oleg Vyugin as purportedly a [...]

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By Andrei Skvarsky
Jacques Der Megreditchian, chief business officer at Russian investment bank Troika Dialog, was re-elected on July 27 as chairman of the board of the RTS stock exchange.
Leaving Der Megreditchian in the post he has held since 2004 was a key result of a meeting of the RTS board of directors that also elected [...]

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By Marcus Williams
Renaissance Asset Managers, the investment unit of Renaissance Group, has hired Dmitry Mikhailov from Uralsib as a fund manager.
Mikhailov will run two of Renaissance’s Russian equity retails funds known as PIFs and co-manage the RenShares Utilities Fund, which Sergey Bubnov lead manages.
Mikhailov was at Uralsib as portfolio manager on sector PIFs as well [...]

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By Ivan Anderzhanov.
VTB Capital is continuing its aggressive expansion with the recruitment of Vladimir Potapov from Troika Dialog to the position of head of portfolio management business of VTB Asset Management.
Potapov will supervise the strategy development and implementation in Portfolio Management Business. VTB said the new appointment will “strengthen [...]

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By Andrei Skvarsky
VTB Capital has made two high-profile hirings by appointing Andreas Boesenberg, a former partner at a German investment boutique, as deputy head of private equity and special situations and taking on Iain Grosvenor from Credit Suisse as a consultant.
Boesenberg, who will be based in Moscow, was a partner at Wermuth Asset Management (WAM), [...]

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