OREANDA-NEWS. On 5 February 2008 Alfa Group Consortium, one of Russia’s largest privately owned financial industrial conglomerates, announced,  that Top Managers of Alfa Group have received the award Top-1000 Russian Managers from the Association of Managers of Russia and Kommersant magazine.

The following are the list of nominations:

“Business Leaders in Russia”: Mikhail Fridman, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Directors of Alfa Group; German Khan, Executive Director of TNK-BP Management; Petr Aven, President of Alfa-Bank.

“Top-1000 Most Professional Top-Managers of Russia”: (8-th Place – Commercial Banks), Rushan Khvesyuk, Chairman of the Executive Board and acting Chief Executive Officer of Alfa-Bank; (2-nd Place – Media Business), Alexander Rodnyansky, Chief Executive Officer of CTC Media, Inc.;(1-st Place- Communication), Alexander Izosimov, Chief Executive Officer of VimpelCom; (1-st Place – Fuel Industry), Robert Dudley, President and CEO of TNK-BP Management; (1-st Place – Retail Trade), Lev Khasis, CEO, Chairman of the Executive Board of X5 Retail Group N.V.; (Laureate - Insurance Companies), Vladimir Skvortsov, CEO of AlfaStrakhovanie Group; (5-th Place – Finance), Mikhail Khabarov, CEO of Alfa Capital.

“Top-1000 Most Professional Financial Directors of Russia”: (1 Place- Communication), Elena Schmatova, Vice-President on Finance of VimpelCom; (1-st Place – Retail Trade), Vitaly Podolsky, CFO of X5 Retail Group N.V.; (Laureate – Insurance Companies), Svetlana Ovchinnikova, CFO of AlfaInsurance Group.

“Top-1000 Most Professional Commercial Directors of Russia”: (1-st Place- Communication), Kent McNeley, Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer of VimpelCom; (3-rd Place- Commercial Banks), Kirill Turbanov, Head of Marketing of Alfa-Bank; (Laureate- Insurance Companies), Vladimir Sorokin, Commercial Director/Deputy General Director of AlfaStrokhovanie Group; (1-st Place- Fuel Industry), Alexander Kaplan, Vice-President/TNK-BP Marketing Devision.

“Top-1000 Most Professional HR Directors of Russia”: (1-st Place- Communication), Marina Novikova, Vice- President, Organizational Development and Human Resources of VimpelCom; (2-nd Place- Insurance Companies), Elena Gordeeva, HR Director of AlfaStrakhovanie Group; (Laureate- Finance), Irina Krivosheeva, Chief Executive of Alfa Capital.

“Top-1000 Most Professional IT Directors of Russia”: (1-st Place- Communication), Vladimir Filippov, Vice-President of Informational Technologies of VimpelCom; (1-st Place – Commercial Banks), Sergey Mednov, Director of Informational Technology of Alfa-Bank; (1-st Place- Insurance Companies), Andrey Pedorenko, Director of Information Technology of AlfaStrokhovanie Group; (1-st Place – Fuel Industry) – Richard Ames, Vice-President of Informational Technology of TNK-BP.

“Top-1000 Most Professional PR Directors of Russia”: (Laureate- Media Business), Elena Jernova, PR Director of CTC channel; (2-nd Place – Communication), Mikhail Umarov, PR Director of VimpelCom; (2-nd Place – Retail Trade), Yury Kobaladze, Managing Director of Corporate Relations of X5 Retail Group N.V.; (1-st Place – Commercial Banks), Alexander Gafin, Member of the Board of Directors, Adviser to the Chairman of the Executive Board of Alfa-Bank; (1-st Place- Fuel Industry), Vladimir Ruga, Vice-President of External Relations of TNK-BP Management.