OREANDA-NEWS. December 13, 2010. The EuroChem Board of Directors has passed a resolution appointing Igor Nechaev as the company’s Logistics Director.  Pavel Yakovlev, who previously held this position, decided not to renew his contract with EuroChem and intends to develop his own business. Igor Nechaev will join the company on January 1, 2011.

Igor Evgenievich Nechaev was born on January 30, 1966. In 1988 he graduated from Cherepovets Higher Military Engineering School of Radio Electronics. In 2006 he received an MBA from Northumbria University Business School (Newcastle, UK).  From 1988 to 1995 Igor served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, from 1995 to 2005 he was employed at Severstal, where he worked his way up from a specialist in the Foreign Relations Department of the Sales Directorate to Commercial Director of the company. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Nechaev was member of the Board of Directors of Severstal, from 2008 to 2010 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Severstal Vtorchermet and Severo-Zapad Ogneupor. Mr. Nechaev is holder of Academician Bardin Award for his work “The Use of Converter Steel for Production of Cast Sections in Electric-Furnace Steelmaking Shop”.