Yandex shareholders re-elect three non-executive directors to the board. Since the beginning of the year, four people have left the Yandex board of directors, including Arkady Volozh and Tigran Khudaverdyan
At the annual meeting on December saudi arabia cell phone number list 22, Yandex shareholders re-elected three non-executive members of the board of directors for four years, including former head of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin (he held this position from 1999 to 2003). This was stated in a company statement on the website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
of venture capital firm Almaz Capital Partners, and Yandex non-executive director Rohje Riinia, who previously held various positions at Apple and Amazon.
Currently, the company's board of directors consists of seven people: in addition to Voloshin, Ryan and Riinia, this includes the president of the private investment company Firehouse Capital Inc. John Boyton, Doctor of Philology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Moldovan, as well as the CEO of ANO "Russia - Country of Opportunities" Alexey Komissarov and the CEO of VTB Capital Alexey Yakovitsky.
This year, former Yandex managing director Tigran Khudaverdyan and its founder Arkady Volozh left the company's board of directors; both were subject to EU sanctions in connection with the military operation in Ukraine. They decided to appeal the introduction of restrictions. Non-executive directors Esther Dyson and Ilya Strebulaev also left the board.
In late November, RBC sources reported that Yandex was planning to be split, with options including a division into Russian and international parts. That same day, Yandex confirmed this, stating that the board of directors of the Dutch Yandex NV was studying the possibility of changing the ownership and management structure of the company "in light of the current geopolitical situation."
In early December, former head of the Russian Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin joined Yandex. He said that he had accepted the company's offer to become an advisor on corporate development.
Also re-elected were Charles Ryan, founder and general partner
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