Alexander E. YevtushenkoChairman of our Board of Directors
Alexander E. Yevtushenko is a Chairman of our Board of Directors since July 2009. Before it since June 2004 he held the position of Indepndent Director of Mechel OAO. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Yevtushenko served as First Vice President of Sokolovskaya OAO, a holding company for a group of Russian coal mining and engineering enterprises. From 1999 to 2000, he was President of the General Committee of Inter-State Eurasian Association of Coal and Metals. From 1991 to 1999, Mr. Yevtushenko was First Deputy Fuels and Energy Minister of Russian Federation. From 1973 to 1991 he worked in various positions, including as General Director at Raspadskaya Mine in Kuzbass. Mr. Yevtushenko graduated from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute with a degree in mining engineering. He is a Doctor of Engineering and a member of Academy of Mining Sciences of Russia. Mr. Yevtushenko is the author of more than 50 scientific publications, including “Mineral Resources of the Coal Industry of Russia”, a study for which he was awarded the 2002 Science and Technology Prize of the Russian government. He has received a number of government awards, including the title of Honorable Miner of the Russian Federation in 1997.
Igor V. ZyuzinChief Executive Officer and Director
Igor V. Zyuzin is our Chief Executive Officer and Director. He has held this position since December 2006. Since March 2003, when Mechel was organized. Mr. Zyuzin served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Southern Kuzbass Coal Company, a position Mr. Zyuzin has held since May 1999. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Zyuzin was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mezhdurechensk Coal Company, which was merged into Southern Kuzbass Coal Company, and a member of the Board of Directors of Kuzbass Central Processing Plant. Mr. Zyuzin holds a doctorate in coal mining and is also a certified coal mining engineering economist.
Vladimir A. PolinDirector
Vladimir A. Polin has been a member of our Board of Directors since July 2007. In December 2008 he also took the position of Senior Vice-President of Mechel OAO. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of Mechel Management Company OOO since June 2006 until December 2008. From July 2003 to June 2006, he was Senior Vice President-Production of Mechel OAO. From July 2002 until June 2003, Mr. Polin served as the Executive Director-First Deputy General Director of our Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant. Mr. Polin has almost 20 years of floor and management experience in the manufacture and marketing of steel products, and holds a degree in metallurgy from Chelyabinsk Polytechnic University.
Valentin V. ProskurnyaIndependent director
Valentin V. Proskurnya is our Independent Director. He took this position in July 2009. From March 2003 to July 2009 he was Mechel OAO's Board of Directors Chairman. From 2004 to April of 2005, Mr. Proskurnya was a member of the Board of Directors of Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant. From January 2001 to March 2002, Mr. Proskurnya served as General Director of Mechel Trading House. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Proskurnya served as the First Deputy Director of Southern Kuzbass Coal Company, in charge of economic and financial analysis. Mr. Proskurnya has over 37 years of engineering, financial and management experience in the coal mining industry and holds a degree in labor economics from the Higher School of Trade Unions. Mr. Proskurnya has been decorated with all three grades of the “Miner’s Glory” order by the Russian government. In addition, in 1996, the Russian government awarded him the title of Honorable Economist of the Russian Federation.
Roger I. GaleIndependent director
Roger I. Gale is a member of the Board of Directors since October 2004. Currently Mr Gale is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Calypte Biomedical Corporation, a US publicly listed company headquartered near Portland, Oregon. From 2002 to mid 2006 Mr Gale was Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Wavecrest Group Enterprises Limited, a communications services provider. From 1999 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Founder of End2End Wireless Limited, a wireless communications services provider. From 1996 to 1998 Mr Gale was Chief Executive Officer of AIG-Brunswick Capital Management, a US$300 million, and OPIC- sponsored, Russia investment fund. From 1988 to 1995 worked at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), including as Chief of the IFC’s Resident Mission in Russia from 1991 to 1995. Mr Gale was 9 years with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and taught economics at the University of New England (Australia) and Lincoln College (New Zealand). Mr Gale holds a Diploma from The Royal Agricultural College and a Master of Economics degree from the University of New England.
A. David JohnsonIndependent director
A. David Johnson has been a member of our Board of Directors since October 2004. Mr. Johnson is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Joy Mining Machinery UK Ltd., a leading global supplier of underground mining systems and services, a position he has held since 2002. From 1990 to 2002, Mr. Johnson was Managing Director of Joy Mining Machinery UK Ltd. From 1986 to 1990, Mr. Johnson was the Managing Director of Dosco Overseas Engineering, a UK-based mining equipment manufacturer, where he began as a mining engineer in 1960. He also worked at the UK National Coal Board from 1953 to 1960. Mr. Johnson is Joy Mining Machinery’s representative on both the Coal Industry Advisory Board and the World Coal Institute. From 1990 to 1992, he served as President of the Association of British Mining Equipment Companies. In 1998, he was awarded the Order of Friendship by the Russian government for services to the Russian coal industry. Mr. Johnson is a qualified mining engineer having obtained the Mining Qualifications Board Certificate of the UK in 1958.
Serafim V. KolpakovIndependent director
Serafim V. Kolpakov has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2004. From 1992 Mr. Kolpakov also serves as President of the International Union of Metallurgists, a steel industry-focused research organization. From 1991 to 1992, he was Vice President of the Advanced Materials Association in Moscow, a public consulting and research organization. From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Kolpakov was Minister of Metallurgy of the USSR and, from 1978 to 1985, First Deputy Minister and Deputy Minister of Metallurgy of the USSR. From 1970 to 1978, he was the General Director of Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. Mr. Kolpakov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys with an engineering degree and is a Doctor of Technical Sciences. He is a member of the International Engineering Academy, the Engineering Academy of Russia (holding the position of Vice President) and the Presidium of Academy of Information Technologies and Processes. Mr. Kolpakov has invented more than 400 steel-making technology improvements, and authored over 500 scientific publications. He has received a number of government awards, including the State Prize of the USSR in 1981 and 1985, the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (twice) and the title of Honorable Metallurgist of the Russian Federation and Czechoslovakia.
Igor S. KozhukhovskiyIndependent director
Igor S. Kozhukhovskiy has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2008. He was Head of the Economic Policy Department at OAO RAO “UES of Russia” from 1999 to July 1, 2000. He serves as General Director of the Energy Forecasting Agency (EFA) since 2005. Mr. Kozhukhovskiy is a member of the Board of Directors of ATS OAO (Trade System Administrator) and a member of the Supervisory Boards of Non-Commercial Partnership “Innovations in Electric Power Industry” (NP “INVEL”) and the All-Russian Branch-Wise Association of the Electric Power Industry Employers. Mr. Kozhukhovskiy graduated from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute with a degree of engineer in automation of metallurgical production in 1978. In 1985, he obtained a degree of mining electrical engineer from the same institute. After that, he worked at the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant named after Lenin and Abashevskaya Mine of Southern Kuzbass Coal Production Association as underground miner, electrical fitter, mechanic, and section foreman. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Kozhukhovskiy served in the Russian Federation Ministry of Economy being a member of the Interdepartmental Committee for Social and Economic Problems of Coal Mining Regions. In 1991, he organized and became the Head of the Social Guarantees Fund and served as Head of the Kemerovo Region’s Representation to the Russian Federation Government. In 1997-1999, he served as Deputy Fuel and Power Minister of the Russian Federation. Igor Kozhukhovskiy holds a doctorate in economics and is the author of a monograph and over twenty articles on various issues of economic policy in coal and electric power industries.
Vladimir V. GusevIndependent director
Vladimir V. Gusev is a Independent director of the Board of Directors of the Company from July 2009. In 2008 Mr. Gusev held the position of Vice President for Finance of the State Corporation “Olympstroy”. He was Deputy Head of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation in 2005-2008. He was First Deputy Minister of Taxes and Levies of the Russian Federation in 1999-2005. Mr. Gusev graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University in 1969 with major in law; he is Associate Professor and holds Ph.D. degree in economics. He was awarded with several national awards and, under Decree of the President of the Russian Federation in 2000, with the Honored Economist of the Russian Federation title. Mr. Gusev is the author of more than 30 scientific papers and publications.
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