Baranov Sergey Aleksandrovich

Baranov Sergey Aleksandrovich

Biography

In 1994, Sergey Baranov graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of MSTU named after N.E. Bauman. In 1996, he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Institute of World Economics and Information Technology.

In 2009, he graduated from the MBA program at Frankfurt Banking Academy.

From 1997 to 1998 he worked at ING Bank as a senior engineer.

Since 1998, he served as head of the information technology department, vice president, as well as cluster manager for developing countries at Deutsche Bank.

In July 2008, Baranov joined the VTB Group as the head of the VTB Capital global IT applications department. Also, since December 2008, he worked as the head of the information technology department of VTB Capital.

Since 2011, he served as deputy head of the IT department of VTB Bank.

2017: VTB Bank Chief Information Officer

In September 2017, Sergey Baranov was appointed head of the IT department of VTB Bank. In this position, he replaced Dmitry Nazipov, who in June 2017 moved to work at Gazprombank.

Sergey Baranov reports to Olga Dergunova, deputy president - chairman of the board of VTB Bank.

VTB has hopes that Baranov will be able to "most effectively implement the ambitious IT strategy of VTB Group." The new IT strategy was developed in 2017 and is designed for the period until 2019. One of its key initiatives is the use of the () approach. flexible development Agile

The main focus is the implementation of the VTB Group strategy to achieve profitability targets until 2019 and the successful completion of the project to combine VTB and VTB24, "Sergey Baranov told TAdviser about the priorities of his work in the new position. - The most intensive phase of technological preparation for the unification started in June 2017. We are on the finish line and, taking into account the work done, we are looking with confidence at the date of unification - January 1, 2018.

The implementation of the VTB Group strategy depends significantly on the technological component, said Baranov. This poses challenges to the bank's IT department in terms of timeliness of making rational architectural decisions and the ability to deploy them in an aggressive time frame dictated by VTB expectations.

IT departments at VTB and VTB24 are the best in the market and are our competitive advantage. By combining them into one team, we have a unique opportunity to bring to a qualitatively new level the efficiency of conducting the business of the combined bank, "said TAdviser Sergey Baranov.

2018: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Technoserv

In October 2018, the new board of directors of Technoserv determined the composition of the governing bodies. The chairman of the board of directors was Sergey Baranov. More details here.

2019: TAdviser Interview

VTB Bank is completing a three-year IT strategy and is setting new tasks. In May 2019, VTB Chief information officer Sergey Baranov in an interview with TAdviser spoke about the key transformations of recent years, ways to reduce the time-to-market indicator and new directions of development in the field of IT.