By Andrei Skvarsky.
Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has hired former senior Russian Health Ministry official Yury Krestinsky to oversee its interests in the country’s health sector.
Sberbank controls more than 20 companies with a variety of specialisms, among them healthcare, lifestyle, electronic commerce, real estate, and telecommunications.
The group includes the DocDoc company, an online service for patients to make appointments at clinics.
Krestinsky, whose job title at Sberbank is “chief executive director for the healthcare industry”, will simultaneously report to Lev Khasis, first deputy CEO of Sberbank, and Natalya Alymova, head of the lender’s wealth management unit, Sberbank said in a statement.
Immediately before joining Sberbank, Krestinsky headed a healthcare organisation and management research centre at Moscow School of Management Skolkovo and was CEO of Bionika, a group of companies providing a range of services for medical and pharmaceutical organisations.
Earlier on, he had headed a department at the Health Ministry.
Krestinsky is a member of various governmental expert and consultative bodies, the statement said.
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