The METROPOL Asset Management Company is headed by highly
professional managers with many years of experience on the Russian
stock market. All specialists of METROPOL have FCSM qualification
certificates attesting their professional level.
METROPOL AM Director General – Mikhail Viktorovich
Slipenchuk
Mikhail Viktorovich Slipenchuk graduated from the Geography
Faculty of Moscow State University, after which he completed
post-graduate studies at the same department and a Candidate
Dissertation. He is a Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Ph.D. In
1997 he graduated from the Interdisciplinary Institute for the
Further Qualification and Retraining of Executives and Specialists
in the discipline Finance and Credit under the Plekhanov Russian
Academy of Economics.
M.V. Slipenchuk began his business career in 1995 at Metropol
Bank as a manager of the Securities Department and gradually moved
up the career ladder. In 1995 he put forward the initiative to set
up METROPOL Investment Finance Company. From the moment the company
was founded on 16 March 1995 to the present day, he has held the
position of General Director, IFC METROPOL.
M.V. Slipenchuk was elected Chairman of the Board of the
EuroAsian Business Council of EuroAsian Economic Community,
Chairman of the Russian section of the Russo-Vietnamese Business
Council, a member of the Presidium of the “XXI Century Russian
Committee” All-Russian Social Organization for the Development of
Russo-Japanese Relations, and a member of the Executive Committee
of the Moscow International Business
Association.
M.V. Slipenchuk is President of the Russian Kyokushin-kan Karate
do Federation, President of the Charity foundation of the support
of Navy “Cruiser “Varyag”, President of the Martial Arts Fund, and
Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Preservation of Lake
Baikal.
In 2002 the Presidium of the International Academy of Ecology,
Man and Nature Protection Sciences elected M.V. Slipenchuk as a
Corresponding Fellow of the Academy in the field of Economics.
For his considerable contribution to creating a favourable
environment for the development of entrepreneurship, the Mayor of
Moscow awarded Mikhail Viktorovich with a commemorative medal of
the Moscow International Business Association and a "10 Years of
the MIBAS" anniversary medal.
In 2005 M.V. Slipenchuk won the “Person of the Year” Annual
National Prize in the category “For the attraction of investments
into the real sector of the economy”.
According to the Russian Association of Managers and the
publishing house Kommersant, M.V. Slipenchuk is among
the top 1000 most professional managers in Russia.
For his contribution to charity and social activity M.V.
Slipenchuk was awarded the Order of the Blessed Prince Daniil
Moskovsky of the III Degree, the Order of Sergei Padonezhsky of the
III Degree, and the Tsarskoe Celo Artistic Prize “For the support
of cultural projects”.
METROPOL AM Managing Director – Anatoly
Rabinovich
In 1992 he received the qualification certificate of the State
Duma of the Russian Federation on the right to work in investment
funds and perform operations with securities, in 1993 the licence
of the State Duma of the Russia on the right to conduct activity as
a specialized investment privatization fund manager, and in 1995
the qualification certificate of the Ministry of Finance of the
RF.
In 1993-1995 he worked on the largest exchanges in Moscow: the
Russian Commodities and Raw Materials Exchange, the Central Russian
Universal Exchange, and the Moscow Commodities Exchange.
In 1995-2001 he held executive positions at International
Investment Company, Evrosibbank and MDM-Bank.
Candidate for the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of
NAUFOR [National Securities Market Participants] (2000); leader of
the working group to frame legislation on the derivatives market
(2001); member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Stock
Exchange Union (2001); adviser to the head of the Federal
Antimonopoly Service (2004); adviser to the president of the
Interregional Oil & Gas Stock Exchange (2004-2006). In
2007 - president of IK Trust. Since July, 1 2008 – an employee of
METROPOL.
METROPOL AM Deputy Director General– Alexander
Zakharov
A graduate of the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical College
(diploma with honours), up to 1994 he conducted academic and
tutorial work. From 1994 to 2004 he worked at Guta-Bank in
positions ranging from an investment dealer to Deputy Director of
the Stock and Money Market Operations Department. As of 2004
General Director of the investment company GUTA-INVEST, and since
January 2005 Deputy General Director of METROPOL. His sphere of
duties includes the creation of new, as well as the development and
promotion of existing, company products.
