OREANDA-NEWS. On 28 January 2009 the Alfa Group Consortium announced the appointment of Mr. Pestryakov as CIO of Alfa Group Consortium.

Pavel Pestryakov, 46 years old, will be responsible for overall cooperation and IT performance management; he will be also in charge of elaboration and implementation of IT standards in all Alfa Group companies.

From 2006 until 2009 he served as Deputy CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of the Forth Wholesale Generative Company, from 2004 until 2006 he served as Chief Technical Officer of INKOM-Realty Corporation, from 2001 until 2004 he acted as CIO of RUSAGRO Group of companies.

Mr. Pestryakov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (State University of Aerospace Technologies) in 1990, he is also a post-graduate student of the Retraining Institute under Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation (1996). In 2005 Mr. Pestryakov got Executive MBA of the Institute of Business and Business Administration under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Mr. Pestryakov was born in Tula region in 1962.