19 April 2004 23:05 Gazprom board appoints Andrei Kruglov as deputy CEO MOSCOW. April 19 (Interfax) - The board of directors at Russian gas giant Gazprom has appointed Andrei Kruglov as
deputy CEO for finance at a mail-in meeting.
The Gazprom press service said that Kruglov would also retain his duties as director of the company's
financial-economic department.
Previously the company's deputy CEO for finance was Boris Yurlov, who will soon be appointed as deputy director
of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency.
Kruglov was born in 1969 and graduated from the St. Petersburg Economics and Finance University in 1995 with a
specialty in banking.
>From 1994 to 1995 Kruglov worked as an economist with the international operations department at BNP Dresdner Bank
and worked at the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office from 1995. From 1997 to 2001 he was director of the foreign trade
and investment department of the St. Petersburg external relations committee. In the period from 2001 to 2002 Kruglov
was deputy general director of the group of companies Invest-IN.
Kruglov was appointed director of the Gazprom corporate finance department in April 2002. [RU EUROPE ASIA EEU EMRG
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