Category Archives: Hires & Fires

By Ivan Anderzhanov Ruben Aganbegyan, the former president of Renaissance Capital, is leaving the investment bank to takeover as president at Micex, the largest Russian stock exchange. Aganbegyan, who was demoted in February this year following a shake-up by Rencap  founder Stephen Jennings, will take up his new role  on June 21. He replaces Konstantin… Continue Reading

By Andrei Skvarsky Deutsche Bank has recently hired Igor Sorokin from Troika Dialog, appointing him as vice president in charge of structuring. The German bank seems to be back in the market for new hires following yesterday’s announcement of two analyst hires, George Buzhenitsa and Natalia Smirnova, from UniCredit Securities. Other rivals have so far… Continue Reading

By Andrei Skvarsky London-based asset management company Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) has hired two former managers for Troika Dialog and one from Trust Bank in an expansion of its Russian business. Alexander Yakubov, previously chief equity market analyst at Russian investment bank Trust, was appointed a managing director and strategist at the Moscow-based subsidiary,… Continue Reading

By Ivan Anderzhanov The Russian investment unit of the UK’s Fleming Family & Partners has named Rustam Issev as its general director to replace Andrei Uspensky. Iseev, who was previously the firm’s managing director, takes over from Uspensky who quit to join Leader Asset Management, according to Prime-Tass, the news agency. Leader is the pension… Continue Reading

By Ivan Anderzhanov Troika Dialog has hired Anton Rakhmanov to run its asset management business less than three months after its founder Pavel Teplukhin quit the Moscow group. Rakhmanov, who will oversee the Troika Dialog Asset Management., joins in May. He has 15 years experience and has been hired from rival Renaissance Investment Management, where… Continue Reading

Russian investment bank VTB Capital has named Alexey Zabotkin as its new head of investment strategy. He joins the bank from VTB Asset Management, where he had been chief investment officer and deputy chief executive since September 2009. In 2008-09, he was chief investment officer with United Capital Partners, a Moscow-based investment boutique. For the… Continue Reading

By Andrei Skvarsky Russian recruitment firm Antal has hired Karl Franzmann, a former director of recruitment at Renaissance Capital, the Moscow-based emerging markets bank. Franzmann, whose tenure at Renaissance Capital coincided with the bank’s initial rapid expansion into sub-Saharan Africa and other developing markets, has over ten years of experience in executive recruitment and executive… Continue Reading

By Ivan Anderzhanov Andrei Arofikin, the former managing director of Merrill Lynch’s investment banking team in Moscow, has returned to the US investment bank as hiring shows signs of picking up. Arofikin quit the bank in March 2008 to join the state savings bank Sberbank where he replaced Andrey Trusov who chaired the group’s international… Continue Reading

By Marcus Williams in London Renaissance Capital has poached Zoltai Szalai as managing director and head of the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) from Russian rival Troika Dialog. Szalai will lead equity and debt capital markets as well as mergers and acquisitions advisory for companies in the financial sector across Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and… Continue Reading

By Ivan Anderzhanov in Moscow Andrey Donskikh, the former chairman of Uralsib Financial Corporation, has  resurfaced at the state savings bank Sberbank in a senior role. Donskih, who stepped down from his role at Uralsib in November after five years at the group, will come deputy president of the bank. A report in today’s Vedomosti… Continue Reading

By Ivan Anderzhanov in Moscow Trust Bank has hired Igor Potapov as head of investment banking as it attempts to rebuild its equity brokerage operation. A source close to Trust confirmed Potapov, a former head of sales trading at Goldman Sachs in Moscow, had been hired recently. Trust Investment Bank is a mid-tier broker and… Continue Reading

By Ivan Anderzhanov Russian brokerage firm Otkritie has continued its hiring spree by recruiting Alexander Zakharov as director of international sales in Moscow. Zakharov, who was previously deputy head of equities at Metropol, takes on a new role to oversee efforts to work with institutional clients in continental Europe. He had joined Metropol in 2007… Continue Reading

By Ivan Anderzhanov in Moscow Russian investment bank Troika Dialog has appointed Peter Ghavami as head of global markets in a shake-up of its senior team following the completion of the integration of Standard Bank’s operation in Moscow. Insiders at Troika indicated Ghavami had been given the key role after the completion of the merger… Continue Reading