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Professional Experience

Began his career at Centre-Invest Bank in 2013 while still being a student.
From 2013 to 2015, he worked at the Processing Centre.
From 2016 to present, he has worked at the IT Development Department.

Education

2015 – Southern Federal University, Department of Physics (Rostov-on-Don).
2018 – participant of the ‘Ostrov 10–21’ project of the University of the National Technology Initiative (Russky Island, Vladivostok).

Born: 4 June 1969; the Moscow Region.

Education
1990: Graduated cum laude from Moscow Plekhanov Institute of National Economy.

1995: Graduated from California State University, Hayward (USA).

МВА in management and economy.

Fluent in English.


In 2016 awarded with Medal of the 2nd degree Order ‘For Service to the Homeland’.

1990–1992: Engineer, senior specialist at the firm Customs Terminal in the system of the USSR Customs Committee of the All-Union Foreign Economic Association Vneshterminalcomplex.

1992–1993: Chief specialist, acting head of the marketing, lending and exchange operations section of the Foreign Exchange Division of JSCB of Intersectoral Integration.

1993–1998: Deputy head of the foreign economic section, director of the Foreign Exchange Division, deputy director of the Customer Operations Department of Regional JSCB Moskva.

1998–2003: Director of the Settlements Department of OJSC JSCB Avtobank.

2003–2007: Director of the Retail Sales Development Department, Director of the Operations and Cash Services Directorate, Director of the Remote Service and Bank Card Operations Directorate, Director of the Retail Service Directorate, Director of the IT Directorate of OJSC JSCB Rosbank.

2007–2014: Deputy Chairperson of the Management Board, member of the Management Board, chairperson of the Banking and Information Technology Committee of OJSC JSCB Rosbank of Societe Generale Group.

2009–2014: Chairperson of the Board of Directors of United Settlement System NCO.

2014–2017: Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

From September 1, 2017: First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

Member of the Bank of Russia Board of Directors (appointed on 2 December 2016).

Sergey Solonin was born on 28 November 1973 in Moscow. He currently holds the offices of General Director of FinTech, General Director of QIWI Group and Co-Head of the Finnet Working Group (Agency for Strategic Initiatives).
Sergey Solonin invests in promising fintech projects; he is a co-investor in Instamart, TimePad, YouDo, Gaijin, Arena Market, Aviasales, SEO Pult, BitFury, Ecwid, Obed Buffet, and Ramenskiy Konditerskiy Kombinat. Sergey also co-owns several restaurants – Ruski and Insight; at the beginning of 2019, he invested in a food delivery service ‘Kukhnya na rayone’ (Local Kitchen).
Mr Solonin also participates in the development of new educational initiatives and institutions in Russia, providing systematic investment support to federal projects. He co-invests in the IKRA creative thinking school, British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow Film School, MACS, Blockchain Academy, Scream School and others.
In August 2018, he embarked on a trip around the world with his family. He calls this ‘The Journey to the Heart of the Family’.

Artem Sychev has been working at the Bank of Russia for over 10 years. He initiated the creation of the regulations and oversight system in information security for the credit and finance sector. He supervised the development of the regulatory framework for information security of financial organisations and standards and recommendations for information security.
Mr. Sychev actively participated in the creation of the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team (FinCERT) which helped banks reduce their losses due to unauthorised transfers using corporate and individual accounts. PhD in Technical Sciences, he defended his thesis in June 2019.

A graduate of the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation (1989) and the Voznesensky Leningrad Institute of Economics & Finance (1991).

Doctor of Economic Sciences. Head of the Department of Management, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation.
1995 to 1997, Deputy Chairman, then Chairman of the Management Board of Petroenergobank.
1997 to 1999, Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance, Lenenergo.
1999 to 2001, Head of the Department for Power Supply Operations, RAO UES.
In July 2001, he was appointed Deputy General Director of the Goznak.
Since October 2002, General Director of the Goznak.
In 2006, after the reorganization of the Association into the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Goznak, he was appointed General Director of the Enterprise.
On 19 May 2016, after the Enterprise’s transformation into a joint-stock company, he was appointed General Director of Goznak.