OREANDA-NEWS. May 16, 2012. SCM Chief Executive Officer Oleg Popov has been recognised as the best manager of the holding company following TOP 100 Ranking issued by Ekonomika edition.

The ranking also includes other senior managers of the SCM Group’s holdings and assets. Thus, Nikolay Nesterenko, Chief Executive Officer of ESTA Holding (SCM Group’s real estate holding) ranks third in the overall ranking, and Igor Syry, Chief Executive Officer of Metinvest, is listed fourth.

System Capital Management (SCM) is a professional investor, the managing company of the biggest Ukrainian financial and industrial group focusing on mining and metals, power generation and distribution and finance. The company also operates in other sectors including telecommunications, media and real estate, retail, clay mining, petroleum products trade, agriculture, pharmaceuticals trade, heavy engineering and transportation.

SCM Group includes Metinvest Holding, DTEK, First Ukrainian International Bank, Renaissance Capital Bank, ASKA and ASKA-Life insurance companies, Vega Telecommunications Group, Ukraina Media Group, Segodnya Multimedia publishing holding, ESTA Holding (real estate), Ukrainskyi Retail (retail), UMG (clay mining), Parallel (petroleum products operator), HarvEast (agriculture), Ukrainian Pharmacy Holding, Mining Machines holding, Portinvest transportation holding and others.

SCM is 100% owned by businessman Rinat Akhmetov.

Ekonomika edition is the largest publishing house and a leader of Ukraine’s business press. Over 15 years of its presence in the market the company has created a string of much-loved brands – Dyelo newspaper, MMR, Investgazeta and TOP 100 magazines.

TOP 100 project produces a series of rankings dedicated to Ukrainian business. They include Ukraine’s Best Companies ranking, Best Top Managers ranking and Ukraine’s Largest and Most Effective Companies ranking.