The VTB Supervisory Board recommended that shareholders exclude Alexander Sokolov chapter from the list of candidates and recommend the founder of Wildberries and the richest woman in Russia by Tatyana Bakalchuk. This was reported on Thursday, May 27, in the press service of the bank.
The Supervisory Board also contained a number of proposals to the list of candidates for elections for elections to the Supervisory Board of the VTB Bank: to exclude the candidacy of Sokolov Alexander Konstantinovich on the basis of his written statement and include the candidacy of Bakalchuk Tatiana Vladimirovna as an independent member of the Supervisory Board Bank VTB, “said in the message.
According to the President and Chairman of the Board of VTB Andrei Kostin, whose words were transferred to the Bank’s press service, an increase in the number of independent members would certainly improve the quality of corporate governance. “This is important for the bank as for the socially responsible business that shares the principles of ESG,” he said.
The founder of the online store Wildberries Tatyana Bakalchuk has become the rich woman in Russia in February of this year. Since the beginning of the year, she earned $ 443 million, raising a state to 9.53 billion. This exceeds the value of Elena Baturina’s assets, which was the richest Russian since 2004.
Previously, the richest man of the country was the owner and president of the Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin. Potanina’s condition has 32 billion dollars, while it is noted that from the beginning of 2021 he lost $ 622 million, and earned a little more than two billion.