Our Team
Mikhail Erenburg, CEO
Scope of duties: strategic planning, strategic and operational management of Asteros Group.
Mr. Erenburg possesses a unique leadership experience – three years in the role of the CIO at RUSAL, the world’s largest producer of aluminium, followed by a position of the Head of Aluminium division and finally – Executive director of RUSAL.
Mikhail graduated from the Plekhanova Russian Economic Academy, faculty of international economic relations. Also Mr. Erenburg holds a postgraduate degree from the Moscow Aviation Institute, acquired additional qualifications from the Columbia Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Yury Byakov, VP Strategic Clients Relations
Scope of duties: development of relations with the Group’s strategic clients, control of key corporate projects.
Mr. Byakov has been working in the IT business for over 10 years. He graduated from the Moscow State Industrial University where he studied Management and holds an Executive ÌÂÀ from the State University Higher School of Economics.
CRN magazine ranks Mr. Byakov among ‘The Best Managers of Russian IT Companies’.
Yuri Byakov was recognized as "Entrepreneur of the Year – 2008" by Ernst & Young with a nomination for "Infrastructure and Technology".
 Vladimir Volkov, Vice-President and Head of Technology
Scope of duties: implementing technological-development strategies for the company and policies regarding mutual relationships with suppliers, seeing key projects through to completion and selecting the main technical solutions to be implemented.
 Alexey Demidov, Head of Proprietary Products Engineering
Scope of duties: managing the Group's proprietary products design and development, developing products promotion strategy.
Working with Asteros for the last three years, Mr. Demidov has long-term experience in development and launch of banking products for major Russian and foreign banks. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University.
 Valeriy Nikitin, Vice-President, Head of Business Applications division
Scope of duties: developing the business applications practice at Asteros, creating complex enterprise management systems, controlling major projects implementation, choosing key technical solutions.
With over 15 years of experience in IT, Mr. Nikitin has acquired extensive managerial experience in the area of business applications implementation in large IT companies. He also possesses broad expertise in the area of complex IT systems integration, having managed a number of unique nation-wide business management and analytical systems creation.
Mr. Nikitin has graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
 Lev Nikolau, Head of “AsterosConsulting” division
Scope of duties: launch and development of the practice and competence center for management and IT consulting
Mr. Nikolau has over 10 years experience of working for international consulting companies such as A.T. KEÀRNEY, McKinsey&Company, where he worked in USA, Switzerland, Poland and Russia. In addition, Lev Nikolau held executive positions in large Russian and Ukrainian companies: Russian Standard, SUAL, Interpipe, Mosinzhstroy and the Organizing Committee of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.
Lev Nikolau graduated from the University of Sourth California (USC) with an MBA degree.
 Vadim Stetsenko, VP Outsourcing services
Scope of duties: developing the IT-outsourcing practice at Asteros, managing key IT-outsourcing projects.
Vadim has over 15 years of IT management and project management experience.
Between 2007 and 2009 Vadim worked as a General Manager at Rusal IT-Service, where he integrated IT support function to enable successful merger of Rusal and Sual.
Graduated from the Moscow State University of Engineering Ecology.
 Neil Vereshagin, Vice-President and CFO
Scope of duties: creating financial policies, financial planning and management, developing relationships with investors.
Mr. Vereshagin has over 10 years experience in the field of financial and operational management. He graduated from the Higher School of Economics, where he studied Economics, and from Paris’ Sorbonne University.
 Irina Makeeva, Vice-President and Chief Treasurer
Scope of duties: managing the economic side of the company
Ms. Makeeva has been working at Asteros since it was first established. She graduated from the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, the School of Financial Directors at the Russian Academy of National Economics, and holds an Executive MBA from the State University Higher School of Economics.
 Sergey Karas, Vice-President Strategy & Marketing
Scope of duties: developing marketing strategies, advancing and improving the company’s competitive edge.
Mr. Karas has over 10 years experience in business development, IT-solution sales, and the formation and implementation of marketing strategies. He graduated from the Moscow State University where he studied Economics and Information Systems.
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