Sberbank hires former Onexim adviser for PR

By Andrei Skvarsky.

Sberbank has hired Yury Rovensky from Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group to run the largest Russian bank’s public relations department.

The position of PR chief at the state-controlled lender, one of the jobs carrying the title of vice president, had remained vacant for about a year before it was given to Rovensky, who quit as general director of Russian media group RBC Information Systems a year ago to join Onexim as an adviser to the firm’s general director, Sberbank said in a press release.

Rovensky’s predecessor as director of Sberbank’s PR department was Irina Kibina, who held the job for a little over a year before leaving it in August 2009

By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Yury Rovensky from Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group to run the largest Russian bank’s public relations department. The position of PR chief at the state-controlled lender, one of the jobs carrying the title of vice president, had remained vacant for about a year before it was given to Rovensky, who quit as general director ...