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Vyacheslav Nikolaev Appointed President & CEO of Russia's MTS

Vyacheslav Nikolaev Appointed President & CEO of Russia's MTS Image Credit: MTS Russia

Russia's MTS has appointed its current first vice president for customer experience, marketing, and ecosystem development Vyacheslav Nikolaev as President & CEO for a three-year term beginning March 13, 2021. 

Following the end of his term at MTS on March 12, current President & CEO Alexey Kornya has been recommended to be appointed First Vice President of MTS parent Sistema, a Russian publicly traded investment company. 

 

Vyacheslav Nikolaev was appointed First Vice President for Customer Experience & Marketing in August 2019. In April 2020, his role was further expanded to encompass MTS’s strategic digital ecosystem efforts as First Vice President for Customer Experience, Marketing, and Ecosystem Development. Vyacheslav first joined MTS in 2004 and has served in a series of senior positions across marketing and commercial management, most recently as Vice President for Marketing (2017 - 2019) and before that as B2B Director (2011 - 2017). His earlier roles included Group Director for Commercial Control, Deputy Director for Regional Management at MTS Russia, as well as acting Director of MTS Russia.

Before joining MTS, Vyacheslav worked as a supervising telecoms analyst, leading the sector research teams at Trust and Renaissance Capital. Vyacheslav began his professional career in 1997 as a consultant at European Public Policy Advisers (UK) and J'son and Partners (Sweden).

Vyacheslav was born in 1970. He graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics & Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1992.

Felix Evtushenkov, Chairman of the MTS Board of Directors
In his new role as MTS Group President & CEO, Vyacheslav Nikolaev will take on an ambitious task — strengthening MTS’s market position as a telecom-based ecosystem of digital services, thereby completing MTS’s comprehensive brand transformation.

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