September 22, 2020

Cherkizovo executives voted best in agriculture

The Kommersant business daily has released its annual Top 1,000 Russian Managers ranking compiled by the Russian Managers Association.

This year, the list is topped by Cherkizovo Group executives, namely, chief financial officer Ludmila Mikhailova, chief information officer Vladislav Belyaev and head of government relations Natalya Klepikova,

Mikhailova has now featured in four Russian Managers Association rankings. She led the integration of assets acquired by Cherkizovo in 2018, helping to grow the group's revenue by 20% to ₽120.1 billion (US$1.6 billion) in 2019. Last year, Mikhailova also coordinated the group's successful effort to refinance its debt portfolio.

Belyaev has been recognised as the best CIO in agriculture for the second year in a row. In 2019, he pioneered the company's machine vision tool for the online tracking of individual productivity and quality control, making Cherkizovo Group the industry's first business to take such a step. Today, through its use of Big Data and IoT to monitor climate and process parameters at the company's farms, Cherkizovo has become one of the industry's most innovative businesses, the company said.

Klepikova has made her debut in the Top 1,000 Russian Managers. In her role, she helped develop and launch a charitable programme across the group's footprint, while also working to support sporting events and cultural activities.

In 2019, Klepikova facilitated Cherkizovo's membership of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the National Union of Meat Processors, as well as the group's presiding over the Ministry of Industry and Trade's working subgroup on import substitution in food machinery.

- Cherkizovo