Management Board
Members of the Russian Railways Management Board are appointed by the Company’s Board of Directors (with the exception of the Chairman of the Management Board, who is appointed by the Government of the Russian Federation). As a collective executive body, the Company’s Management Board handles the general management of business operations (except for matters that are reserved to the General Meeting of Shareholders or the CEO and Chairman of the Management Board as per the Federal Law On Joint-Stock Companies and the Company Charter, unless otherwise stated by the Charter).
In line with its key responsibilities, the Management Board is tasked with developing proposals on the Company’s business strategy, implementing its financial and business policy, making decisions on the most important matters of its day-to-day operations and coordinating activities between its divisions, improving the effectiveness of the internal control and risk monitoring systems, and ensuring the observance of shareholder rights and their legitimate interests.
The Company’s Management Board carries out its activities in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation, the Company Charter, resolutions of the General Meeting of Shareholders and the Board of Directors, the Regulation on the Russian Railways Management Board, and the Company’s internal documents.
The Management Board acts in the Company’s interests and reports to the Company’s General Meeting of Shareholders and the Board of Directors.
As per the Regulation on the Russian Railways Management Board approved by Order No. 265-r of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 25 February 2004, the Management Board is responsible for:
- preparing and submitting the Company’s priorities and long-term plans, including annual budgets and the investment programme, to the Board of Directors, preparing progress reports, as well as developing and approving current operation plans;
- approving internal estimated tariffs, fees and payments for work (services) performed (provided) by the Company that are not related to natural monopolies;
- approving rules that arrange for and ensure accuracy of accounts, as well as submitting the Company's annual report and other financial statements to the relevant government authorities in a timely manner and providing information about the Company’s operations to shareholders, creditors and the media;
- submitting prospectuses of securities and other documents related to the issuance of the Company’s securities to the Board of Directors;
- arranging for implementation of long-term and current plans of the Company, as well as its investment, financial and other projects;
- establishing the procedure for keeping an account of the Company’s affiliates;
- reviewing and coordinating the Company’s draft Collective Bargaining Agreements and regulations on industry-wide private pension schemes, mandatory pension insurance, professional pension insurance and an industry-wide railway tariff agreement, as well as submitting them to the Company’s CEO and Chairman of the Management Board;
- establishing the procedure for keeping shareholders up-to-date with Company developments;
- establishing a compensation system and incentives for the Company’s employees;
- issuing binding instructions to subsidiaries on matters specified in the charters of these companies or in their existing agreements with the Company;
- approving the Company’s internal documents on matters that are reserved to the Management Board;
- resolving other matters related to the Company’s current operations that are submitted for consideration by the Chairman of the Management Board, the Board of Directors or shareholders.
While performing the above-listed functions in 2017, the Russian Railways Management Board held 71 meetings that reviewed and resolved on a number of matters related to the development of the Russian Railways Group. The key matters included:
- review of the Company’s financial and business performance, meeting the targets of the Company’s investment programme and financial plan;
- review and approval of the key strategic documents for individual business lines, including the Foreign Operations Strategy of Russian Railways Group until 2025, Conceptual Framework for the Reform of the Russian Railways Social Infrastructure for 2017–2021, Russian Railways Group’s Traffic Safety Policy, and the roadmap of initiatives to develop the traffic safety culture in the Russian Railways Group for 2017–2019;
- review of performance under the Collective Bargaining Agreement obligations;
- approving the results and terms of employee competitions;
- setting, extending and changing tariffs, fees and rates for services rendered by Russian Railways.
On 13–14 December 2017, the Russian Railways Management Board held its final meeting to review the Company’s operating and financial performance in 2017 and set targets for 2018.
Remuneration of the Management Board members
The remuneration system for members of the Russian Railways Management Board, which was approved by the Company’s Board of Directors, was developed to improve the effectiveness of the individual and collective work of the Management Board members in the short and long term, as well as to provide incentives for the successful performance of Russian Railways as a single economic entity.
Executives are entitled to bonuses for annual results based on the fulfilment of key performance indicators (KPI) and a performance assessment of the Management Board and Russian Railways as a whole.
In 2017, the remuneration of the members of the Russian Railways Management Board amounted to RUB 1,268 m (on a comparable basis and net of severance payments – RUB 1,177 m).
Biographies of the members of the Management Board
Oleg Belozerov
Chief Executive Officer – Chairman of the Management Board, Russian Railways
Mr Belozerov was born in 1969. He graduated from the Saint Petersburg University of Economics and Finance with a degree in Economics and Industrial Planning in 1992. PhD in Economics.
- March 2009 – Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation;
- May 2015 – First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation;
- August 2015 – President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – CEO – Chairman of the Management Board, Russian Railways.
Anatoly Krasnoshchek
First Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Krasnoshchek was born in 1959. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in Railway Transportation Process Management in 1988. PhD in Economics.
- December 2011 – Vice President, Russian Railways;
- March 2013 – Senior Vice President, Russian Railways;
- October 2015 – First Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – First Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Vadim Mikhaylov
First Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Mikhaylov was born in 1969. He graduated from State Finance Academy with a degree in Finance and Credit in 1992.
- September 2009 – Senior Vice President, Russian Railways;
- August 2017 – First Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – First Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Alexander Misharin
First Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Misharin was born in 1959. In 1981, he graduated from the Ural State University of Railway Transport with a degree in Electrification on Railways, and in 1997 with a degree in Economics and Company Management (Railway Transport). PhD in Economics. He is a doctor of Technical Sciences.
- December 2012 – First Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – First Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Elena Kharibina
Chief Accountant, Russian Railways
Ms Kharibina was born in 1965. In 1997, she graduated from the Russian State Open Technical University of Railways, Institute of Economics and Mathematics in Business with a degree in Accounting and Auditing.
- September 2012 – Deputy Head of Economics and Finance, Moscow Metro;
- September 2016 – Chief Accountant, Russian Railways.
Sergey Kobzev
Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Chief Engineer, Russian Railways
Mr Kobzev was born in 1964. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in Electrification on Railways in 1986.
- December 2011 – Head of the Centre for Technological Coordination, a business unit of Russian Railways;
- May 2014 – CTO, Transmashholding;
- June 2015 – Head of the Northern Railway, a territorial branch of Russian Railways;
- April 2017 – Senior Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO – Chief Engineer, Russian Railways.
Oleg Valinsky
Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Head of the Directorate of Traction, Russian Railways
Mr Valinsky was born in 1961. In 1997 he graduated from Saint Petersburg State Transport University with a degree in Transport Operation and Logistics.
- August 2008 – First Deputy Head of the October Railway, Russian Railways;
- October 2014 – Head of the October Railway, Russian Railways;
- January 2016 – Vice President – Director of the Directorate of Traction, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO – Director of the Directorate of Traction, Russian Railways.
Gennadiy Verkhovykh
Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Head of the Central Directorate of Infrastructure, Russian Railways
Mr Verkhovykh was born in 1959. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in Railway Operation in 1981.
- February 2007 – Director, Russian Railways Passenger Transportation Department;
- October 2013 – Director, Russian Railways Passenger Transportation Business Unit Management Department;
- November 2015 – Vice President – Director of the Central Directorate of Infrastructure, Russian Railways;
- May 2016 – Senior Vice President – Director of the Central Directorate of Infrastructure, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO – Head of the Central Directorate of Infrastructure, Russian Railways.
Pavel Ivanov
Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Head of the Central Directorate of Traffic Management, Russian Railways
Mr Ivanov was born in 1964. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers in 1986 with a degree in Railway Transportation Process Management.
- April 2011 – Director of the Central Directorate of Traffic Management, Russian Railways;
- June 2015 – Director of Transportation Control – Director of the Central Directorate of Traffic Management, Russian Railways;
- November 2015 – Vice President – Director of the Central Directorate of Traffic Management, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO – Head of the Central Directorate of Traffic Management, Russian Railways.
Petr Katsyv
Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Head of the Moscow Transport Hub Development Centre, Russian Railways
Mr Katsyv was born in 1953. He graduated from Moscow Automobile and Road Construction Institute in 1975 with a degree in Automobiles and Automotive Fleet. He is a doctor of Technical Sciences.
- June 2012 – Director, Main Department of the Moscow Region for Relations with the Federal Authorities;
- September 2013 – Advisor to the Governor of the Moscow Region;
- October 2014 – Vice President – Director, Moscow Transport Hub Development Centre, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO – Head of the Moscow Transport Hub Development Centre, Russian Railways.
Anatoly Meshcheryakov
State Secretary – Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Meshcheryakov was born in 1966. He graduated from Kiev Military Aviation Engineering Academy in 1988 with a degree in Avionics, and from the Institute of Modern Business in 1998 with a degree in Finance and Credit. PhD in Technical Sciences.
- October 2009 – First Deputy CEO, Transmashholding;
- December 2011 – Senior Advisor to the President of Russian Railways;
- February 2012 – State Secretary and Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – State Secretary – Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Vyacheslav Pavlovsky
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Pavlovsky was born in 1956. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1978.
- July 2010 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Norway;
- May 2016 – Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Andrey Starkov
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Starkov was born in 1969. He graduated from Moscow State Textile Institute with a degree in Industrial Power Engineering in 1992.
- November 2011 – Corporate Secretary, Russian Railways;
- September 2015 – Senior Advisor to the President of Russian Railways;
- February 2016 – Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Oleg Toni
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Toni was born in 1964. He graduated from Voronezh Engineering and Construction Institute in 1986 with a degree in Industrial and Civil Construction and from the North-West Academy of Public Administration in 2003 with a degree in State and Municipal Administration. PhD in Economics.
- April 2006 – Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Nikolay Fedoseyev
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Fedoseyev was born in 1966. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation in 1989 with a degree in Electronics, and from the Academy of the Ministry of Security in 1993 with the qualification of an officer with higher special education.
- January 1993 – served in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation;
- December 2015 – Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Anatoly Chabunin
Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Director for Internal Control and Audit, Russian Railways
Mr Chabunin was born in 1960. He graduated from Novosibirsk Institute for National Economy in 1990 with a degree in Finance and Credit.
- May 2013 – Deputy Director, Federal Service for Financial and Budgetary Oversight;
- September 2015 – Internal Control and Audit Director, Russian Railways;
- October 2015 – Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2015 – Vice President – Director for Internal Control and Audit, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO – Director for Internal Control and Audit, Russian Railways.
Shevket Shaydullin
Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Head of Traffic Safety, Russian Railways
Mr Shaydullin was born in 1961. He graduated from the Kuybyshev Institute of Railway Engineers in 1990 with a degree in Technical Locomotive Operation Management. PhD in Technical Sciences.
- December 2012 – Vice President – Head of Traffic Safety, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO – Head of Traffic Safety, Russian Railways.
Dmitriy Shakhanov
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Mr Shakhanov was born in 1961. He graduated from the Academy of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1988 with a degree in Law.
- April 2009 – Vice President, Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Deputy CEO, Russian Railways.
Olga Gnedkova
Director for economics and finance, Russian Railways
Ms Gnedkova was born in 1960. She graduated from the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers in 1981 with a degree in Accounting. PhD in Economics.
- September 2005 – Head of Corporate Finance Department, Russian Railways;
- February 2017 – Director for economics and finance, Russian Railways.
Vadim Bynkov
Head of the Legal Department, Russian Railways
Mr Bynkov was born in 1962. He graduated from Kalinin State University in 1985 with a degree in Law.
- April 2009 – Head of the Legal Department, Russian Railways.
Valentin Gapanovich
Senior Advisor to the CEO of Russian Railways
Mr Gapanovich was born in 1955. He graduated from the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers in 1992 with a degree in Railway Transportation Process Management. PhD in Technical Sciences.
- June 2008 – Senior Vice President, Russian Railways;
- April 2017 – Senior Advisor to the President of Russian Railways;
- November 2017 – Senior Advisor to the CEO of Russian Railways.
