Nornickel made a number of staff and organizational changes. These include appointing Sergey Dubovitsky as senior vice president for strategy, strategic projects, logistics and procurement. Alexey Bashkirov, member of the board of directors and chairman of the board’s budget committee, will take over as senior vice president for commerce, business development, investor and public relations. Bashkirov will also head two new units — Innovative Development Department and M&A Department. Elena Savitskaya who currently serves as vice president and chief of staff, will additionally oversee Nornickel’s social policy, HR strategy and corporate policy on benefits and compensations, staff recruiting, training, motivation and performance assessment. On top of that, she will supervise corporate healthcare development. Senior Vice Presidents Sergey Batekhin and Larisa Zelkova will leave the company. Vladislav Gasumyanov will step down as senior vice president for public-private partnership, while keeping his seat on the board of directors.
img: (left to right) Sergey Dubovitsky, Alexey Bashkirov
