OREANDA-NEWS. January 19, 2011. Igor Sagiryan, Managing Director and Head of Private Clients Division at Troika Dialog, has been appointed as Head of Investment Banking. Mr Sagiryan officially takes up his new position on January 17, 2011. Mr Sagiryan’s responsibilities will include overseeing strategic planning of the company’s investment banking division, capital raising on debt and equity markets, advising on and implementing M&A deals, deal structuring and investment consultation.

Catherine Thibaut, Managing Director at Troika Dialog, takes over as Head of the Private Clients Division. Ms Thibaut joined Troika Dialog in October 2010 as Head of Private Banking, Private Clients Division.

Igor Sagiryan possesses considerable experience in the financial industry and investment banking business. Mr Sagiryan joined Troika Dialog in July 2009 and until today oversaw the company’s Private Clients business. Prior to Troika Dialog, Mr Sagiryan worked for several years as President of Renaissance Group, where he oversaw the group’s business development including key commercial partnerships, government relations, and the company’s investment banking and financial services.

Mr Sagiryan in 1989 participated in founding Bain-Link, a premier Russian management consultancy where he worked as Managing Director until 1999. Igor Sagiryan boasts a diverse background in which he has founded successful businesses across different industries in Russia and abroad, participated in privatizations and business restructuring projects, and led large-scale deals involving Russian and foreign investors. From 1987 to 1989, Mr Sagiryan served as Advisor to the International Department of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Prior to that, he was Head of Department at the Youth and Organization Committee of the USSR.

In 1990, Mr Sagiryan became one of the first citizens of the USSR to graduate from the Harvard Business School. Igor also graduated from the Economics Department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He completed graduate studies and defended his dissertation at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Igor holds a Ph.D in economics.