Sberbank hires S7 airline ex-deputy CEO to oversee IT in subsidiaries, affiliates

By Andrei Skvarsky.

Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank has hired Pavel Voronin, a former information technology chief of the country’s second-largest airline S7, as chief information officer (CIO) for the bank’s subsidiaries and affiliates.

Voronin will report to Sberbank chief technology officer David Rafalovsky and interact with the CIO of the Sberbank ecosystem, Oksana Smirnova-Krell, the bank said in a statement.

Voronin, who will officially be one of Sberbank’s vice-presidents, was S7’s first deputy chief executive for IT before joining the bank, among other things heading a team that developed an aircraft predictive maintenance (faults early detection) system and founding and managing a lab enabling the airline to use blockchain, big data and artificial intelligence, according to the statement.

He also founded and headed the aviation IT department at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a key Russian science and technology university.

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