SERGEY ZAKURAEV

Chief Operating Officer

Sergey was born on March 25th, 1974 in Stavropol.  

In 1995, he graduated from Stavropol Higher Aviation and Engineering College and then continued his education at the Academy of National Economy at RF Government and in 2003, acquired a Masters Degree in Business Administration. At different times, he took part in trainings on leadership, motivation, human resources management, public speaking, strategic planning and marketing in Russia and other countries. 

Sergey’s management career started in 1999 when he started as a Business Development Director in CJSC StavTeleSot where, under his management, departments of sales, marketing, customer service, product development and public relations were organized. During the 4 year period, he established distribution operations, launched two subsidiary companies and several offices. 

Starting from July 2003, Sergey Zarukaev works at VimpelCom, first as a Business Development Director of Southern region (where he led Beeline to gain second largest market share), Director of Stavropol branch (where he facilitated the successful merger of the branch and CJSC StavTeleSot) and Branch Director in Rostov-on-Don (facilitated 3G and FTTH networks’ launch).

In October, 2008, Sergey was appointed as Business Development Director for JSV GTel-Mobile, which is a joint venture of VimpelCom and GTel under Beeline brand in Vietnam, and where Sergey organized the Business Development Department.    

Starting in January, 2011 he worked as a Regional Development Director at Unitel Co. Ltd. In this role, he facilitated a major expansion in number of branded flagship Beeline stores, which was largely responsible for the increase in market share in active subscriber base up to 30%.  In two Uzbekistan regions, Beeline became the market leader.  

Sergey Zarukaev was granted the highest VimpelCom corporate award Diamond Bee.  

In December 2011, he was appointed the Chief Operating Officer for Mobitel Co. ltd.

Sergey is married and has two sons. 

He speaks English and he likes to spend his free time snowboarding and diving.