Dmitry Grishin, who co-founded Mail.Ru Group in 2005, was appointed Chief Executive Officer in November 2010. He joined Mail.Ru in 2000, was promoted to Technical Director in 2001 and subsequently led the business as CEO from 2003 to 2010. He graduated from Moscow State Technical University with an honours degree in computer-aided design. He is a director of Haslop Company Limited (Mamba).
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Verdi Israelian joined an affiliate of Mail.Ru in 2009 and was appointed COO of Mail.Ru Group in November 2010. He was previously co-head of the European Specials Situations Group (CIS operations) at Goldman Sachs in Moscow. Before working at Goldman Sachs, he was deputy head of Russia Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and also worked at Arthur Andersen and Lehman Brothers. He holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
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Matthew Hammond was appointed to the Board in May 2010 and as Managing Director in April 2011. Prior to that he was Group Strategist for Metalloinvest Holdings where he managed part of the non-core asset portfolio and advised its Board on investment strategy, M&A and foreign exchange transactions. He graduated in 1996 from Bristol University, UK, with a degree in economics and history. From 1997 to 2009, he was a technology analyst at Credit Suisse and was ranked number 1 in the Extell and Institutional Investor surveys eight times. He is a non-executive director of Nautilus Minerals Inc., Strike Resources and Puricore.
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Dmitry Grishin, who co-founded Mail.Ru Group in 2005, was appointed Chief Executive Officer in November 2010. He joined Mail.Ru in 2000, was promoted to Technical Director in 2001 and subsequently led the business as CEO from 2003 to 2010. He graduated from Moscow State Technical University with an honours degree in computer-aided design. He is a director of Haslop Company Limited (Mamba).
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Gregory Finger, a founding member of the Company and a director since December 2006, has been involved in many of the Company's high-profile investments. He graduated with honours in 1988 from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering with a specialization in automated control systems. From 1992 to 2005, he headed the Moscow office of New Century Holdings – the largest Western financial investor in the Russian-speaking and Eastern Europe markets – where worked with more than 15 investment funds, one of which had US$3 billion in assets under management. He began investing in the internet sector in 1999 and made New Century Holdings's first internet investment – an early investment in Mail.Ru.
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Marcos Galperin was appointed to the Board in October 2010. He has extensive experience of the internet industry and is founder, in 1999, and CEO of MercadoLibre, Latin America’s leading e-commerce technology company. From 1994 to 1997 he was a Futures and Options Associate and managed the currency and oil derivatives program of YPF S.A., an integrated oil company in Argentina. He graduated with honours from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and received an MBA from Stanford University in 1999. He is a member of the Management Board of Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a Director of the Board of Endeavor.
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Matthew Hammond was appointed to the Board in May 2010 and as Managing Director in April 2011. Prior to that he was Group Strategist for Metalloinvest Holdings where he managed part of the non-core asset portfolio and advised its Board on investment strategy, M&A and foreign exchange transactions. He graduated in 1996 from Bristol University, UK, with a degree in economics and history. From 1997 to 2009, he was a technology analyst at Credit Suisse and was ranked number 1 in the Extell and Institutional Investor surveys eight times. He is a non-executive director of Nautilus Minerals Inc., Strike Resources and Puricore.
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Sang Kun Him was appointed to the Board in February 2011. He has been Chief Executive of South Korea’s NHN Corporation since April 2009 and was previously its Vice President of Business Management. He has served as a judge at the Seoul Central District Court. He graduated in law from Seoul National University and received a masters degree in law from Harvard Law School.
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Ivan Tavrin was appointed to the Board in April 2011. He is Chief Executive Officer of UTH Russia (media holding) since September 2009.
In 2002 Ivan founded and became CEO of Regional Media Group. Then, in 2006, he became the President and shareholder of TV-3. In 2007 Ivan founded Media-One and in the following two years he built the largest national regional radio business, Vybery Radio, and a federal broadcasting TV platform, Media-One TV, which became part of UTH Russia through a merger in 2009.
Ivan graduated from Moscow State University of International Relations in 1998 and holds a diploma in Law. Ivan is also a director of UTH Russia and FH&F Limited (Net-by-Net), a Russian broadband operator.
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Charles Searle is currently Chief Executive Officer of MIH Internet Listed Assets. He serves on the boards of a number of companies that are associated companies with MIH, including Tencent Holdings Ltd. Prior to joining the MIH group, he held positions at Cable & Wireless plc and at Deloitte & Touche in London and Sydney. Mr. Searle is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Mr. Searle has more than 20 years of International experience in the telecommunications and internet industries.
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Vasileios Sgourdos was appointed to the Board in October 2010. A chartered accountant, he became Group Chief Financial Officer for MIH in January 2009 and is also a director of Abril SA and a number of other companies in the MIH Group. From 2007 he was General Manager for Business Development Pay Television at MIH in The Netherlands and, from 1997 to 2007, was CFO at Thai listed pay TV operator UBC. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and is an Honours Bachelor in Accounting Science from the University of South Africa. He is a registered member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.
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Mark Sorour was appointed to the Board in August 2010. A chartered accountant, he joined the Naspers Group in 1994 and has been Chief Investment Officer since 2002 with responsibility, worldwide, for its M&A, corporate finance and capital-market fundraising activities. His 16 years’ experience in internet, technology and pay TV businesses includes business development in Africa, the Middle East, Thailand, China, Europe, the USA and South-east Asia. He graduated from Selborne College, London, and the University of Natal.
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Vladimir Streshinskiy, who was appointed to the Board in August 2008, has been CEO of OJSC “Telecominvest” since 2008. He graduated with honours from the aeromechanics and flight vehicles department of the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute in 1992. He is also a non-executive director of Metalloinvest, Telecominvest, MegaFon, PH Kommersant, MUZ TV and 7 TV.
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