Board of Directors

Mikhail Baranov
Executive Director

Mikhail began his career as a theoretical physicist in the Moscow State University Nuclear Physics Research Institute in Moscow in 1986, after graduating from Moscow State University with a diploma in physics.

Later he worked in the semi-conductor research field and was employed by state-owned research and development centres. He started his career in banking in 1993 when he was appointed as deputy managing director of one of the commercial banks in Moscow.

Having gained extensive experience in banking and trade finance, in 1997 he was appointed as managing director of Kapital Moskva Bank. In May 2007 Mikhail was appointed as chairman of the board of Inkaro Bank in Moscow.

His banking and finance experience has involved him in a number of merger and acquisition and investment deals within the Russian and CIS chemical sector. Mikhail was appointed as a non-executive director of Zirax Limited on 11 August 2005.

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