Evgeny Agureev appointed as Director of the United Selling Organization of ALROSA, the Company’s sales division. Before the appointment he was Vice President of Sberbank.

Evgeny Agureev is to develop rough diamonds sales, increase their efficiency and transparency, strengthen ties with long-term clients. Among other tasks, he is to prepare the Company for a new three-year contract period – signing contracts with the world’s largest rough diamond consumers for 2018-2020.

Evgeny Agureev has more than 15 years of experience in financial management in commercial banks. From 2009 to 2017, he held different positions in Sberbank from Head of International Reporting to Vice President, Director of Finance Department. Prior to that, he worked in Russian Standard Bank, MDM Bank, Raiffeisen Bank Austria, Absolut Bank, and Renaissance Credit Bank.

Mr. Agureev was born in 1978. He is a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Economics, specializing in Accounting, Analysis and Audit, holder of a Master’s degree in Financial Management. In 2016, he completed the Executive Development Program of London Business School and Sberbank Corporate University.

The United Selling Organization of ALROSA is in charge of sorting, preliminary valuation, pre-sale preparation and sales of all ALROSA’s rough diamonds. Before the appointment of Evgeny Agureev, acting director of the USO of ALROSA was ALROSA Vice President Yury Okoemov.