September 08, 2008

Mechel announces new management board

Russian mining and metals companies Mechel OAO announced the formation and membership of its new collegial executive body at a meeting of the Mechel OAO board of directors held on September 18th 2007.

Its board adopted a resolution on the management board membership. The following persons were elected members of the Mechel OAO management board
1 Mr Igor Zyuzin - CEO & new management board chairman
2. Mr Alexey Ivanushkin – COO of Mechel OAO
3. Mr Stanislav Ploschenko - acting CFO of Mechel OAO
4. Mr Victor Trigubko- senior VP for Government Relations Mechel OAO
5. Ms Irina Ipeeva - director of corporate management and property of Mechel OAO
6. Mr Evgeny Mikhel – VP legal affairs of Mechel OAO
7. Mr Oleg Rozenberg - deputy CEO for Foreign Trade of Mechel Management OOO
8. Ms Elena Selivanova – director HR of Mechel Management OOO
9. Ms Elena Tuvaeva - First deputy CEO of Mechel Management OOO.

The resolution approving the Bylaw on the Collegial Executive Body of Mechel OAO was adopted by the Extraordinary General Shareholders' Meeting of Mechel OAO conducted on August 6th 2007.

Mechel release said that ‘The creation of the management board enables the Company's management team to take decisions after consultation with the members of the Management Board of the most important business of the Company.’