The Russian operator MTS has appointed of Evgeny Chereshnev to the post of member of the management board, VP for strategy and innovation.
It has also appointed Valentina Nudga member of the management board, VP for corporate and legal affairs, a post previously held by Alexey Barsegian.
Chereshnev previously held the position of executive director for strategy and innovative development at MTS RED (Cybersecurity Block). He is the founder of Future Crew and an international expert in artificial intelligence, data management and cybersecurity.
Prior to joining MTS, he was executive VP for digital business and a member of the management board of Vimpelcom. In 2017, he founded BiolinkTech and became its CEO.
Nudga joins MTS from the European energy company Fortum, where for seven years she held the position of deputy general director for corporate and legal affairs and compliance control at the company’s Russian division.
She has extensive expertise managing operational and strategic processes and developing various aspects of legal support of business operations, both from scratch and through improvement of existing business processes. She has been involved in implementing major Russian and international projects in various industries.
She previously worked as director of legal support at Megafon-Retail and director of legal affairs at Yota.