OREANDA-NEWS. October 21, 2008. Mr. Yevgeny Yegorushkin became director of the North-Western Regional Directorate of Allianz ROSNO Life Ltd.. Prior to this appointment, he headed an agency of Allianz ROSNO Life in Vologda, reported the press-centre of ROSNO.

Mr. Yevgeny Yegorushkin was born in November 1968 in Kursk. In 1995, he graduated from the Vologda State Pedagogical University. Prior to his entering the insurance sector, he had worked at the executive positions in direct sales and financial consulting. In the summer of 2006, he became director of the Vologda agency of Allianz ROSNO Life.

Under the leadership of Mr. Yevgeny Yegorushkin, the Vologda agency of Allianz ROSNO Life was named one of the company’s best performing regional units. Just in the first half of 2008, the quantity of contracts concluded by the agency increased by more than one quarter in comparison with the previous similar period, and in 2007 the volume of collected insurance premium grew by 200% vs. the year 2006.

In his new position, Mr. Yevgeny Yegorushkin will be directly responsible for the development of the company’s insurance business in the North-Western region of the Russian Federation. He is entrusted with coordination of performance of all selling divisions of the North-Western Directorate of Allianz ROSNO Life, including the agencies no.1 and no.2 in St. Petersburg. Today, the company’s North-Western Directorate comprises, along with 2 agencies in St. Petersburg, the agency in Vologda, and 3 sales departments in Cherepovets, Syktyvkar, and Kaliningrad.

"This staffing decision fully meets the Allianz ROSNO Life’s strategy of attaining leadership in the top-priority regions", commented this new appointment the CEO of Allianz ROSNO Life Mr. Maxim Chernin. "I am confident that Yevgeny’s professionalism and knowledge of the specifics of regional life insurance market will enable him to achieve the objectives set by the top management. We plan to pay special attention to increasing the agent network’s operating efficiency and training our financial advisors, and we will expand sales via non-insurance intermediaries (banks and brokers) and the companies of ROSNO group".