Supervisory Board
Martin Schwedler
Independent Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine
Martin Schwedler
Independent Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank UkraineMartin Schwedler is appointed to the position of Independent Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine.
In December 2017, by decision of the general meeting of shareholders of Alfa-Bank Ukraine Martin Schwedler was included in the Supervisory Board and appointed as the Independent Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine.
Austrian banker Martin Schwedler has many years of experience in corporate finance and investment business gained at such companies as GE Capital, Raiffeisen Investment AG and Lazard Frères Gestion.
The extensive international expertise of Martin Schwedler will enhance strengthening the bank's position in the Ukrainian market, the financial institution's development strategy and further extension of the banking group ABH Holdings S.A. ties in European business communities.
Martin Schwedler earned Master's Degree in Law from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Petr Aven
Chairman of the Board of Directors of ABH Holdings S.A., Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine
Petr Aven
Chairman of the Board of Directors of ABH Holdings S.A., Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank UkraineFrom 1994 to June 2011, Mr. Aven served as President of Alfa-Bank (Russia). Mr. Aven was responsible for the Bank's overall strategy and relations with business and government leaders in Russia and abroad. Prior to joining Alfa-Bank (Russia) in 1994, Mr. Aven was Minister of Foreign Economic Relations for the Russian Federation (1991-1992), serving as Russia's representative to the Group of Seven, and conducting a number of high-level trade and economic missions to Western capitals. Mr. Aven worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria (1989-1991).
Currently, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of ABH Holdings S.A., member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, member of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank (Russia) and Chairman of the Board of Directors at AlfaStrakhovanie Group.
Mr. Aven is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Economic School (NES), a member of President’s Council on International Activities of Yale University (USA), also he is a member of the Boards of Trustees of: the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, the Russian Geographical Society, and Co-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Also, Mr. Aven is a member of the Presidium of Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), a professor at the State University Higher School of Economics and is Honorary Doctor (Dr.h.c.) of the University of Latvia. Since April 2006, he has been a member of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In 2007 Mr. Aven became Chairman of the Russia-Latvian Business Council.
He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1977 and holds a PhD in Econometrics. Mr. Aven was born in Moscow, Russia in 1955.
Ilya Arkhipov
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine
Ilya Arkhipov
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank UkraineIlya Arkhipov has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine and Strategic Committee of the Bank since April 2017. Before joining the Supervisory Board, since 2016, Mr. Arkhipov held the position of an advisor to the Bank on strategy and integration.
Prior to his employment with Alfa-Bank, Mr. Arkhipov for a long lime held a top manager position with SCM, the largest Ukrainian industrial group, where he represented the interests of shareholders on the boards of directors of a number of companies, headed the London office of the Group, and at different times from 2007 to 2015 was a member or the chairman of the supervisory boards of such Ukrainian banks as FUIB, Dongorbank, and Renaissance Credit Bank.
Earlier, from 1995 to 2005, Mr. Arkhipov worked in management and strategic consulting at PwC and McKinsey & Company in Russia and the CIS, and gained experience in launching technological start-ups in a large Internet fund.
Mr. Arkhipov has a Master’s degree in Economics conferred by Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and MBA INSEAD, and is the Fellow of the Institute of Directors (United Kingdom).
Andrew Baxter
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, representative of ABH Ukraine
Andrew Baxter
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, representative of ABH UkraineAndrew Baxter is a member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, appointed in 2017.
Born in 1966 in the Republic of South Africa.
Graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, in 1988, awarded the Bachelor in Commerce and Finance degree. Has the qualification of the Chartered Accountant (S.A.).
Andrew Baxter is one of the Executives of the Board of Directors of ABH Holdings S.A., in charge of the audit of the banking group.
Prior to joining the banking unit of Alfa-Group in 2005, A.Baxter worked for SUN Group, an investment company.
In 1999 - Chief Financial Officer at Navenor Holdings Ltd., one of the SUN Group companies; in 2000 – Chief Financial Officer of Private Equity Fund at SUN Capital; in 2001 – Partner of SUN Group.
Previously also worked for Renaissance Capital, the US Russia Investment Fund, CS First Boston (Moscow) and Deloitte & Touche (Johannesburg, RSA).
Ernest Galiyev
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, Independent Director
Ernest Galiyev
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, Independent DirectorMr. Ernest Galiev has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine since April 2010.
Member of the Supervisory Board of JSCIB UkrSibbank, in office from 2006 till 2009.
From 2002 till 2006 he was a member of the Supervisory board of the National Bank of Ukraine. In 2002 he was elected as a People’s Deputy of Ukraine, member of the Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine on the issues of finance and banking.
Galiev started his career with JSCIB “UkrSibbank” in 1993 as head of the securities department and was made a bank vice-president in 1996..
In 1993 he graduated from Kharkiv State University majoring in Economical informatics and automated management systems; in 2003 he was awarded the degree of candidate of economic sciences.
Ildar Karimov
Member of the Board of Directors, Alfa-Bank (Russia), Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine
Ildar Karimov
Member of the Board of Directors, Alfa-Bank (Russia), Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank UkraineMr. Ildar Karimov has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank (Ukraine) since 2005.
He also works as member of the Board of Directors at Alfa-Bank (Russia). Mr. Karimov is in charge of cooperation between shareholders, strategic investors, Bank’s partners and Alfa Group Consortium.
Prior to joining the Bank, he worked as a scientific researcher at the International Applied System Analysis Institute (Laxenburg, Austria) in the years from 1991 through 1994. Previously he worked at the Central Economic Mathematics Institute (Moscow) in 1987-1992.
Member of the Board of Directors at OJSC “Alfa Insurance”; Member of the Board of Directors at Alfa Assets Management.
In 1983 Mr. Karimov graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Mikhail Lomonosov Moscow State University. He defended a thesis “Mathematical methods in economy” in 1986 and was awarded the decree of candidate of economic sciences.
Martin Pilecky
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine
Martin Pilecky
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank UkraineMartin Pilecky serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine since April 2018.
Martin Pilecky has more than 20 years of successful experience on senior positions in the field of information technology. Before joining the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine, Martin worked for the oil company TNK-BP, earlier for Erste Bank Holding and Slovenska Sporitelna, member of Erste Group, Komercni Banka, GE Capital and Zivnostenska Bank.
He earned higher education at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Naresh Santdasani
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine Representative of ABH Ukraine
Naresh Santdasani
Member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine Representative of ABH UkraineNaresh Santdasani is a member of the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine.
In December 2017, Naresh Santdasani joined the Supervisory Board of Alfa-Bank Ukraine as a representative of the shareholder - ABH Ukraine Limited.
Prior to this appointment, Naresh Santdasani served as retail risk director at Alfa-Bank Russia. In addition to his direct functional responsibilities, which involved control of retail business risks, Naresh Santdasani was responsible for the risk policy and strategy for all subjects of ABH Holdings S.A. to develop consistent risk management standards across the group.
Earlier, Naresh Santdasani worked for a large financial conglomerate of HSBC Holdings, where he headed the Middle East retail credit risk department, and before that, the India consumer risk department. Mr. Santdasani also earned his experience at the National Bank of Kuwait as head of the banking products department, at Standard Chartered Bank, as chief regional collector, and at Anagram Finance, where he was responsible for financial transactions.
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