Moscow, October 10, 2019 – Evgeny Agureev, who has been a director of the United Selling Organization of ALROSA (USO) since 2017, was appointed as Deputy CEO of ALROSA. He will continue to lead the USO and oversee the sales unit.

Since 2017, Evgeny Agureev has also been a member of the ALROSA’s Executive Committee.

In his new position, Mr. Agureev will continue to develop sales, improve their efficiency and transparency, and strengthen ties with long-term clients.

Sergey Ivanov, CEO of ALROSA:

“Given the difficult conditions in the global diamond market today, Evgeny will continue to improve the efficiency of the entire supply chain of the company and look for new approaches to stimulating rough diamond sales, as well as to increase the level of interaction with the company's customers and expand the customer base.”

Evgeny Agureev has more than 15 years of experience in financial management in commercial banks. From 2009 to 2017, he held different positions in Sberbank – from Head of International Reporting to Vice President, Director of Finance Department. Prior to that, he worked in Russian Standard Bank, MDM Bank, Raiffeisen Bank Austria, Absolut Bank, and Renaissance Credit Bank.

Mr. Agureev was born in 1978. He is a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Economics, specializing in Accounting, Analysis and Audit, holder of a Master’s degree in Financial Management. In 2016, he completed the Executive Development Program of London Business School and Sberbank Corporate University.

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The United Selling Organization of ALROSA is in charge of sorting, preliminary valuation, pre-sale preparation and sales of all ALROSA’s rough diamonds.