8 Setting the standards
1 Andrey Melnichenko (38)
Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Beneficiary of a 95% interest in EuroChem
- Co-founder and former chairman of the Board of Directors of MDM Bank
- In partnership with Sergey Popov, built EuroChem, SUEK and founded TMK
2 Charles Adriaenssen (54)
Member of the Corporate Governance and Personnel Committee
- Former director of Interbrew (now InBev)
- Served as a diplomat from 1982 to 1995
- Works as a consultant on corporate governance and public affairs
3 Vladimir Stolin (63)
Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Personnel Committee
- A leading adviser on human resource management, motivation and development
- Founder and chairman of a leading Russian company advising on personnel development
4 George Cardona (59)
Chairman of the Strategy Committee
- Founder and CEO of London-based Cardona Lloyd & Co.
- Former Head of Strategy at HSBC Group, and General Manager responsible for international banking
5 Nikolay Pilipenko (45)
Member of the Audit Committee
- Finance Director of EuroChem until December 2008
- Previously worked at ABB from 1994 to 2005, including as ABB corporate financial controller from 2002
6 Keith Jackson (61)
Member of the Strategy Committee,
Member of the Audit Committee
- 32-year career with Anglo American plc: was most recently CFO of Anglo Industrial Minerals, a division which included Copebras, a significant Brazilian fertilizer company
- Formerly chairman of Cleveland Potash Ltd
- Served as finance director of Petrosur SA, an Argentine urea fertilizer company
7 Richard Sheath (48)
Chairman of the Audit Committee,
Member of the Personnel Committee
- Extensive experience in corporate governance and risk management, heading up a boutique governance consultancy that advises many leading companies on the effectiveness of their governance structures
- Former risk management partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Six years experience based in Russia
8 Dmitry Strezhnev (42)
Member of the Board of Directors,
CEO of EuroChem
- CEO of EuroChem since 2004
- Owns 5% of EuroChem’s shares
- Has a wealth of experience in the management of large Russian industrial companies, holding executive positions at the Likinskiy Bus Manufacturing Plant, the auto manufacturer GAZ and a number of smaller companies
Age as at December 31, 2010.
Shareholding structure
and influence
- EuroChem has adopted a robust approach to corporate governance in Russia:
- Management develops and executes strategy
- Board of Directors performs an overall oversight function
- Half the Board is represented by independent directors with long-standing experience and reputations
- Three committees: Audit, Governance and Personnel, Strategy
- Transparent and open ownership structure
- Long-term shareholder commitment
- Prudent dividend policy, consistent with the financial standing of the Company
Transparency and disclosure
- IFRS reporting since 2002, audited by PwC
- Annual reports issued since 2005
- Financial statements and majority of corporate governance documents are publicly available on regularly-updated website
