Oliver Hughes will leave the prescription Tinkoff Bank

The long -term chairman of the Board Tinkoff Bank, the closest ally of the founder Oleg Tinkov, Oliver Hughes, leaves this post. The board will be headed by the chairman of the board of directors Stanislav Bliznyuk.

The fact that Hughes is ceased to be a reproduction was reported on March 25 by the maternal TCS Group Holding. Hughes becomes the executive director of the expanded board of directors of TCS Group, where "will oversee key strategic initiatives aimed at improving corporate governance and ensuring the growth of the group." Hughes will retain the responsibilities of CEO TCS Group.

The candidacy of Bliznyuk has already been agreed with the Central Bank, writes TCS Group. He worked in Tinkoff Bank for 15 years, and a year ago, in April 2020, he headed the board of directors, replacing Tinkov himself (due to health reasons).

Hugh's departure from the management of the bank to the leadership of the group is essentially a promotion, a source in the banking market told The Bell. After the illness of the founder, Hughes was increasingly engaged in strategy and in this capacity an opened the bank, the rearrangement was agreed on last fall, he notes.

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Oliver Hughes last year was a guest of the project "Russian norms!" . He talked about how he and the bank adapted to the coronavirus crisis, about the nightmare of distance work, about how he got to Russia, and about the “karmic connection” with it.