VK Board of Directors

2022

Sergey Kupriyanov appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors

VK Company Limited May 24, 2022 announced changes in the Board of Directors and the appointment of the Chairman of the Board.

Sergey Kupriyanov has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. More details here.

Dmitry Grishin's resignation from the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of VK

VK Company Limited announced on May 12, 2022 that Dmitry Grishin resigned on May 11 as chairman of the Board of Directors and non-executive director of the company. More details here.

Changes in the Board of Directors

VK Company Limited on March 31, 2022 announced changes in the composition of the Board of Directors.

The Company's Board of Directors has been strengthened by the heads of two Russian universities. As an independent director, Nikita Anisimov, rector of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics," acting rector of MSTU named after N. E. Bauman, Mikhail Gordin became a non-executive director.

Nikita Anisimov and Mikhail Gordin have good management experience in scientific institutions of the country. So, Nikita Anisimov held senior positions at Moscow State University, Moscow Polytechnic University and the Far Eastern Federal University.

Mikhail Gordin held leading positions in major scientific institutes in the aviation industry, in particular, was the general director of TsIAM named after Baranov. He also worked in senior positions in international business, including at Sibur and THK-BP Management.

Also, Natalya Yakovleva, a certified accountant, auditor and independent director, was appointed as an independent director. He is an independent non-executive director, a member of the audit and remuneration committees of the Petropavlovsk gold mining company, an independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of the Globaltruck logistics company, and an independent director of Mediascop JSC.

In addition, the board of directors of VK included two top managers of the Company.

Since 2019, Vladimir Gabrielyan (Executive Director) has been the First Deputy General Director of VK.

Alexander Aivazov (Executive Director), Senior Vice President of Investment and Business Development at VK, oversees the Company's mergers and acquisitions transactions, as well as the direction of online education.

2021: New composition

In mid-December 2021, the board of directors of the VK group was updated. It included the press secretary of the chairman of the board of Gazprom Alexei Miller Sergey Kupriyanov. In this post, he replaced the senior vice president, head of the Finance bloc, Alexandra Buriko. Kupriyanov took the chair of a non-executive director.

47-year-old Sergey Kupriyanov began his career at Gazprom in 2003 as deputy head of the information policy department. By December 2021, he is on the board of directors of Gazprom Media Holding.

Spokesman for the head of Gazprom joined the board of directors of VK

Alexandra Buriko is a senior vice president and member of the board of Sber. After her departure from the board of directors of VK, the representative of Sber was not left there.

In November 2021, Sber announced its withdrawal from MF Technologiya JSC, which controls VK, and the sale of its stake to Gazprombank for 12.8 billion rubles. In early December, billionaire Alisher Usmanov decided to sell his stake to USM. The buyer was the Sogaz insurance group (21.2% owned by Gazprom). According to Forbes, the amount of the transaction between USM and Sogaz could be from 6.65 billion to 16 billion rubles.

The updated composition of the board of directors of VK by mid-December 2021 is as follows:

• Dmitry Grishin;
• Dmitry Sergeyev;
• Vladimir Gabrielyan;
• Jaco Van Der Merwe;
• Sergey Kupriyanov;
• Jan Bune;
• San Hong Kim;
• Ulyana Antonova;
• Charles Searle;
• Mark Remon Soror;
• Elena Azarenka.

The Council provides effective leadership and development prospects for the company aimed at increasing the value of company shares, and long-term sustainable development and growth of companies in the interests of all shareholders and other participants, the VK website says.

According to the charter, the board has unlimited access to information, accounting documents, documents and property of the company, unless otherwise expressly provided by applicable law.^[1]

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