Beeline mobile telecommunication unit in Armenia to be run by Sergey Zakurayev
YEREVAN, January 8. /ARKA/. VimpelCom Ltd Group’s business unit says Sergey Zakurayev has appointed as head of the mobile telecommunication division of ArmenTel, VimpelCom’s subsidiary in Armenia.
Zakurayev takes office on January 14.
Dmitry Kromsky, head of the CIS business unit of VimpelCom Ltd, commenting on this appointment, said that the Beeline in Georgia run by Zakurayev before this appointment continued advancing and strengthened its market positions.
“Our activity in Armenia has even a wider room for growth,” he said adding that in its new strategy the group has singled out ArmenTel’s mobile business into a separate block to intensify its focus on this segment. “I am convinced that Sergey’s experience in various segments of the business in four countries of Beeline’s presence will have favorable impacts on development of wireless telecommunication services in Armenia.”
Zakurayev, on his side, said that despite a huge work had already been done to improve mobile telecommunication services and infrastructures, there is still plenty to do to win Armenian clients’ favor and strengthen their confidence in Beeline.
“I’m convinced that our clear focus on particular segments of the business will enable us to add fresh ideas to the process of building up-to-world-standards service,” he said.
Sergey Zakurayev was born in Stavropol in 1974. He graduated fr om Stavropol Higher Aviation Engineering School in 1995 with distinction and continued his curriculum in Russian government’s National Economy Academy, where he earned business administration master degree in 2003.
Zakurayev started his management career in 1999 as commercial director of StavTeleSot, wh ere he established units for sales, marketing, servicing subscribers developing products and maintaining public relations.
He also established a distribution network and launched two subsidiaries.
In July 2003, Sergey came to VimpelCom as commercial director for Beeline’s southern region in Russia. He run Stavropol branch in Rostov-on-Don.
In October 2008, Zakurayev was appointed as commercial director of GTel-Mobile, VimpelCom OJSC and GTel joint company in Vietnam.
In February 2011, Sergey was appointed director for regional development of Beeline in Uzbekistan, and in December 2011 as head of Beeline in Georgia.
Zakuraev has got VimpelCom’s highest corporate award, Diamond Bee. Married. Father of two.
ArmenTel CJSC, a subsidiary of Russian VimpelCom (trading as Beeline), provides fixed and mobile telecommunication services and a high-speed access to Internet. -0---