Board of Directors


Christopher Clark Chairman of the Board of Directors, Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Year of birth: 1942 Alexey Mordashov CEO, Severstal, Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Year of birth: 1965 Anatoly Kruchinin CEO Severstal Russian Steel, CEO Cherepovets Steel Mill. Year of birth: 1960 Sergei Kuznetsov CEO Severstal International, CEO Severstal North America. Year of birth: 1971 Alexey Kulichenko CFO, Severstal. Year of birth: 1974 Mikhail Noskov Non-Executive Director. Year of birth: 1963 Martin Angle Independent Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee. Year of birth: 1950 Ronald Freeman Independent Director, Member of the Audit Committee. Year of birth: 1939 Rolf Stomberg Senior Independent Director, Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Year of birth: 1940 Peter Kraljic Independent Director, Member of the Audit Committee. Year of birth: 1939		Christopher Clark Chairman of the Board of Directors, Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Year of birth: 1942 Chris Clark is a leading industrialist and brings extensive business knowledge to the Board. Chris’s career spans 40 years at Johnson Matthey plc, the specialty chemicals and precious metals Group, where he became Chief Executive Officer in 1998. He led the Group into the FTSE 100 in 2002. Since his retirement in 2004, Chris has taken a number of non-executive positions. He currently chairs Urenco Limited, the leading international supplier of enriched uranium to the power generating industry. Chris is a graduate in metallurgy; he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Brunel University, London. Alexey Mordashov CEO, Severstal, Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Year of birth: 1965 Alexey Mordashov has worked for Severstal since 1988. He started his career as a senior shop economist, becoming Chief Financial Officer in 1992. In December 1996, he was appointed as Severstal’s Chief Executive Officer. In June 2002, Mr. Mordashov was elected Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors and served as Chief Executive Officer of Severstal Group. Since December 2006, he has been Chief Executive Officer of Severstal. Alexey serves on the Entrepreneurs Council of the Government of Russian Federation. In addition, Mr. Mordashov is a member of the Russian-German workgroup responsible for strategic economic and finance issues, and he is the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ (RSPP) Committee of Trade Policy and WTO. Since March 2006 he is a member of the EU-Russia Business Cooperation Council. Alexey is a member of the Atlantic Council President’s International Advisory Board. Mr. Mordashov earned his undergraduate degree from the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics. He also holds an MBA degree from Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University (Newcastle UK). Alexey was granted an honorary doctorate from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics in 2001 and from the University of Northumbria in 2003. Anatoly Kruchinin CEO Severstal Russian Steel, CEO Cherepovets Steel Mill. Year of birth: 1960 Anatoly Kruchinin joined Severstal in 1982 and became Chief Power Engineer in 1993. In March 1999 he was appointed Commercial Director, and in January 2002 became Executive Director of Severstal. By July 2002 he was CEO of the company. Following the company’s new system of corporate management, from December 2006 he was Chief Executive Officer of Cherepovets Steel Mill, and in April 2008 was appointed CEO of Severstal Russian Steel Division. Anatoly was a graduate of the Ivanovo Power Engineering Institute and held an MBA degree from the National Economic Academy under the Government of Russian Federation. Anatoly Kruchinin passed away in December 2010. Sergei Kuznetsov CEO Severstal International, CEO Severstal North America. Year of birth: 1971 Sergei Kuznetsov started his career in 1994 as an expert in trade operations for steel and steel products at the State Owned Foreign Trade Association Promsyrioimport (Industrial Materials Import/Export). From 1995 to 2001, he worked as a commercial representative at the Steel Trading Section of the Moscow Representative Office of Cargill Enterprises, Inc. He joined Severstal in 2002 to head the Business Planning Group responsible for acquiring foreign assets and developing international projects. In 2004 he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Severstal North America, and in 2008 became Chief Financial Officer of OAO Severstal. In July 2009 Sergei became CEO of Severstal International and CEO of Severstal North America. Sergei graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1994, where he majored in Engineering. In 1998 he received his Finance MBA from California State University, Hayward. Alexey Kulichenko CFO, Severstal. Year of birth: 1974 Alexey Kulichenko graduated from the Omsk Institute of World Economy with a degree in economics. In 1996-2003 he worked in “Sun Interbrew”, starting his career as cash flow economist of Omsk plant “Pocap” and ending as Efficiency Planning and Managing Director of “Sun Interbrew”. From 2003 till 2005 Alexey worked as CFO at “Unimilk” – the second largest milk producer in Russia, which joins 20 plants in Russia and Ukraine. From December 19, 2005 to July 2009 he served as CFO of CJSC “Severstal Resource”. Since May 2006 Alexey is the member of the Board of directors of JSC “Vorkutaugol”. In July 2009 Alexey Kulichenko was appointed CFO of OAO Severstal. Mikhail Noskov Non-Executive Director. Year of birth: 1963 A graduate of the Moscow Institute of Finance, Mikhail Noskov worked at the International Moscow Bank from 1989 until 1993, and was Trade Finance Director of Credit Suisse (Moscow) from 1994 until 1997, when he joined Severstal as Head of Corporate Finance. In 1998 he became Finance and Economics Director, and was appointed as Deputy CEO for Finance and Economics of the Severstal Group in June 2002. From 2007 till 2008 he was Deputy CEO for Finance and Economics of Severstal. Martin Angle Independent Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee. Year of birth: 1950 Martin Angle holds a number of non-executive directorships in addition to OAO Severstal, including in the UK Pennon Group plc, Savills plc and the Chairmanship of the National Exhibition Centre Group Ltd. He also sits on the board of Shuaa Capital psc in Dubai. During his career, Martin has held senior executive positions in investment banking, industry and more recently private equity, where he was an Operational Managing Director of Terra Firma Capital Partners and held various senior positions in its portfolio companies including the Waste Recycling Group Ltd, where he was Executive Chairman, and Le Meridien Hotel Group, where he was Deputy Chairman. Prior to that, Martin was for a number of years the Group Finance Director of TI Group plc, a specialised engineering company in the UK FTSE 100 with activities in over 50 countries. Before that, he spent 20 years in investment banking, where he held a number of senior positions with SG Warburg & Co Ltd, Morgan Stanley and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. Martin is a graduate in physics, a Chartered Accountant, a Member of the Chartered Securities Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School. Ronald Freeman Independent Director, Member of the Audit Committee. Year of birth: 1939 Ronald Freeman is a member of the Board of Directors, an Advisory Partner and stockholder of the Moscow-based Troika Dialog investment bank. He is also a non-executive member of the board of directors of Volga Gas and of Polish Telecom; and, a member of the Executive Committee of the Atlantic Council. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of Columbia Law School, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pilgrims Society (UK) and Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Kozminski University (Warsaw). Between 1991 and 1997, Ronald was Head of the Banking Department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He was responsible for debt and equity financing in the private sector in 23 countries of the former Soviet Union, with a total annual funds commitment of Euro 2 billion. Prior to that, Ronald was vice-chairman of Citigroup European investment banking and a general partner of Salomon Brothers. Ronald holds a BA degree from Lehigh University, and an LLB from the Law School of Columbia University. He was admitted to the New York Bar. Rolf Stomberg Senior Independent Director, Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Year of birth: 1940 Rolf is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LANXESS AG, Leverkusen, a global chemical company, formed after the reorganisation of Bayer AG. He is Senior Independent Director of medical device producer Smith and Nephew plc, London, and advises a number of German family-owned companies. After nearly 30 years with BP (British Petroleum Co plc) – where he became CEO of BP’s downstream business and Managing Director on the main board of the company – he held a number of directorships in internationally operating companies in Europe such as Reed Elsevier Group, TNT NV, Scania AB, John Mowlem plc and Management Consulting Group plc, as well as on the boards of PE-owned companies. Rolf is an economics graduate with a doctorate from Hamburg University, where he also served as a lecturer. He was Honorary professor at the business school of Imperial College, London, and the Institut Francais de Petrol, Paris. Peter Kraljic Independent Director, Member of the Audit Committee. Year of birth: 1939 Peter Kraljic is a Director Emeritus at McKinsey, where he spent 32 years and held a number of senior positions until his retirement in 2002. Focused mainly on industrial clients in the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, automotive assembly, and steel and aluminium sectors, he was also a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders and Personnel Development Committee and has managed the company’s activities in France as a General Director. Peter has also written a number of scientific and business articles for publications such as the Harvard Business Review and Le Figaro Economic. He has also recently led special projects aimed at economic growth and job creation in Germany and Brazil. Peter graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Faculty of Metallurgy), and holds a PhD degree from Polytechnic University in Hannover, Germany. He also holds a Masters degree in business management from the INSEAD business school, France.