Ildar Saleyev appointed director of strategy and business development of Metinvest

The new top manager will be responsible for forming a portfolio of new projects

Personnel changes have taken place in Metinvest Group – Ildar Saleev has been appointed Director of Strategy and Business Development. This is stated in the company’s message.

In this position, Saleyev will be responsible for the development and implementation of a business strategy, the formation of a portfolio of new projects and a system of relations with key stakeholders in the regions of the target presence of the group’s assets.

As noted, he is an experienced manager with a high level of professional expertise, worked in many areas of Ukrainian industry: energy, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, coal industry.

The newly appointed director of strategy and business development worked at Metinvest from 2015 to 2018, managing procurement from operational activities. In 2018-2020, he headed PJSC DMZ (Donetskstal, now Pokrovsk Coal Group). During the last four years, Saleev was the general director of the company DTEK Energo.

As GMK Center reported earlier, Metinvest took second place in the top-50 largest Ukrainian investors for more than 2.5 years of wartime according to NV.ua. This is stated in the company’s message. According to the publication, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the company has spent more than UAH 28.1 billion on CAPEX, including joint ventures. The group was also included in the rating of the 50 best employers of Ukraine according to NV and became the leader in two out of three nominations in the metallurgical industry.