Splits Sergei Nikolaevich

Splits Sergei Nikolaevich

Biography

Sergey Raskolov was born on June 20, 1965.

In 1986 he graduated from the Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications named after Marshal M.V. Zakharov. After serving in the army, he went into business.

In 2003, Sergey Raskolov received a specialized education, graduating from the Academy of Entrepreneurship under the Government of Moscow with a degree in e-commerce.

2003-2017: Working at Merlion

In 2003, he began working at Merlion as a sales manager, and then became a regional manager. A year later, he took the position of commercial director of one of the structural divisions of the company - Merlion-Lizard, which was engaged in promoting computer components of manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific region to the Russian market.

In January 2007, Sergey Raskolov took the position of Sales Director of Merlion, and worked in this position for more than 5 years, focusing on increasing the company's sales and developing new strategic projects, such as the Merlion network of regional offices.

On March 1, 2013, Sergey Raskolov was appointed CEO of Merlion. As explained then in the company, the decision on personnel changes in the leadership of the Board of Directors of Merlion took in connection with the new strategic tasks set for the company by its shareholders.

As general director, Raskolov was replaced by Vyacheslav Simonenko, who worked in this position for six years.

In December 2016, Dmitry Vinogradov replaced Sergei Raskolov as general director, who remained at Merlion, where he worked for over 13 years, including as general director over the past four years.

In 2017, Raskolov left the company and began to develop his own business project.

2017: Development of own project

Since 2017, Sergey Raskolov has participated in the development of the business of Agency Stolichny Consultant LLC, which owns the Vinyl Market retail store in the center of Moscow, not far from the Arbatskaya metro station. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, since 2020 he has been the sole owner of this company.

In 2021, Agency Capital Consultant LLC received revenue of about 47.9 million rubles with an increase of 87%.

2023: Return to Merlion as CEO

On February 9, 2023, Merlion informed TAdviser about the appointment of Sergei Raskolov as CEO of the group of companies. Personnel appointment is associated with the implementation of a new business strategy.

Sergei Raskolov replaced Dmitry Vinogradov as head of Merlion, who remains in the company, where he worked for over 20 years, including as CEO since 2016 and president of the group of companies from 2021.

Sergei will have a difficult job in a difficult period of transformation of our business, taking into account the current situation in the country's economy. I am sure that he will be able to achieve his goals, since he has repeatedly proved his effectiveness as CEO in the previous period of work at the company. I, and I think every Merlion employee, am grateful to Dmitry Vinogradov for his invaluable contribution to the development of our business. He led the company in one of the most difficult periods of its history and successfully overcame all difficulties, reaching record financial indicators and forming the strongest team in the Russian IT distribution market. I consider Dmitry the best leader of Merlion and am grateful for his huge personal contribution, - commented Alexey Abramov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Merlion.