Александр Кийко

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE • Excellent managerial skills and long-term experience in dealing with customers, projects and businesses.• Profound marketing and sales savvy, that enables a company to identify and develop new business opportunities and build profitable long term relationships with customers.• Result-oriented manager, capable to organize activity of a significant number of people for achieving designated profitability.• Motivated achiever with strong business planning and project management skill, who can launch a new business (either for a big structure or for a new company) in short time from the very beginning up to achieving appropriate market share.• Top-notch administrator with strong experience in supervising of all aspects of daily retail banking operations, including consumer crediting.• 14 years experience in banking environment, including: deposits, plastic cards (both debit and credit), cheques, remittances, unit funds, consumer lending and mortgage. Extensive knowledge of theory and practice of the retail banking in Russia (Russian legislation and Central Bank’s regulations, rules of international payment systems, intrabank procedures, banking accounting, etc.).• Dynamic leader and team builder, consistently motivating others toward success.• Unique combination of solid technical and management background and outstanding experience in business development within financial institutions. This allows feeling comfortable working in cross-functional multi-tasking regime.• Good communication skills. Ability and experience in working in a global multinational environment.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • May 2005 – by now – MasterCard Worldwide. Associate Vice-President, Account management team. Responsible for all aspects of business development and support with a dozen of big Russian Banks and for some company programs on regional (Eastern Europe) and country level.• June 2002 – May 2005 – JSC Bank “Rossiyskiy Capital”. Deputy Director retail banking. Responsible for all aspects of retail business in the Bank (including customer crediting).• June 2000 – June 2002 – JS Company “TransCreditCard” – processing company. Deputy General Director. Responsible for all business aspects in the company. • June 1999 – June 2000 – JSC Bank “Avangard”. Head of Payment Card Department. Responsible for payment card business in the bank. Launched the card project from the very beginning up to volume of thousands cards. • December 1996 – June 1999 - Mosbusinessbank (Moscow). Head of Business Development Department in Payment Means Center. Responsible for marketing, development, implementation and selling of such new banking products as: deposits, plastic cards (both debit and credit), cheques, remittances. Supervising of customer service.• March 1993 - December 1996 - Joint-Stock Commercial bank “Tveruniversalbank”. Head of Business Development Department of the Bank Cards Division. Responsible for organization of plastic card services, coordination of bank work with international payment systems and development of the local payment system “Universal” based on the Smart card technology.EDUCATION • 1984 – 1990 – Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Specialized in applied mathematics and physics. Profession – engineer- physicist• 1999 – 2001 – Academy of National Economy; Specialized in strategic management. Profession – manager (master’s degree).• 2001 - IBM Corporation, Courses “Project Management Concepts and Principles” and “Risk and financial management in projects”.• A great number of various seminars and courses on banking subjects.