By Andrei Skvarsky.

Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has announced senior staff moves this month.

Andrey Vanin, vice-president for the corporate client ecosystem, has been put at the head of SberX, a unit overseeing non-banking services in Sberbank Group, which brings together about 20 companies.

In this capacity, he replaced Mark Zavadsky, who stayed on at Sberbank as a consultant, according to one of four Sberbank statements reporting the moves.

Vanin joined Sberbank in 2011 as regional director for Siberia and the Far East, and a year later was appointed head of retail business at the lender’s Moscow division.

In July 2017 he became CEO of Sberbank subsidiary Business Environment and in March 2019 was appointed vice-president for the corporate client ecosystem. 

His new duties include coordinating the integration of the group’s banking and non-banking components.

Marina Nastasenko has replaced Dmitry Kozlov as CEO of Dialog, a Sberbank Group company specialising in the development of digital communications platforms for corporate clients and governmental bodies.

Nastasenko is a speech technology and biometrics specialist.

Her career record includes involvement in supplying the Mexican Security Ministry with voice identification systems (AVIS SSP) and in providing voice and bimodal biometrics technology for law enforcement agencies in Russia, the United States, Ecuador, India, Hungary, Malaysia, Argentina, Brazil and other countries.

Nastasenko also writes courses on mathematical filtration methods and other scientific subjects.

Sberbank senior vice-president Tatiana Zavyalova has had her responsibilities changed by being put in charge of humanitarian, cultural and media projects.

Previously Zavyalova headed the marketing, advertising and communications department, a role that is going over to Marina Zhigalova-Ozkan as from September 2.

Zhigalova-Ozkan, who, as Zavyalova, will hold the rank of senior vice-president in her new role, has headed Walt Disney Company CIS since its foundation 13 years ago.

Previously, she was first deputy CEO of Profmedia, a media arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom, vice-president of Russian conglomerate Interros and deputy CEO of Russia’s North-Western Shipping Company, and worked at the headquarters in London of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).