Earlier, Vitaly Savelyev was advisor to Director General of the Svyazinvest joint stock company, and Andrei Sharonov was first deputy minister of economic development and trade.
Vitally Savelyev was born on January 18, 1954 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1977, he graduated from the mechanics and machine-building faculty of Leningrad Polytechnic Institute as a mechanic engineer. In 1986, he graduated from the industrial organisation faculty of Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after Togliatti. He also received training in the United States (in particular, Columbia University) and other countries.
In 1977-1984, he worked as an engineer, and then the chief designer of a subsidiary of the KrasnoyarskGESstroi (Siberia).
In 1984, he returned to Leningrad. In 1984-1986, he was deputy chief of the Union trust Sevzapmetallurgmontazh.
In 1986-1988, he was deputy head of the main department of Slavleningradinzhstroi for engineering projects.
In December 1988, he set up and registered in Leningrad a subsidiary of the joint stock company Dialog - one of the first Soviet-American companies promoting computers and software to the market.
In 1989, he became one of the founders of the Dialog-Bank. He also became a board member of the bank.
In 1990-1993, he was president of the Soviet-American (later Russian-American) company, Dialog Invest.
In 1993-1995, he was chairman of the board of the Rossia bank.
In 1995, he set up the subsidiary of the MENATEP bank in St. Petersburg.
In November 1995-September 2001, he was chairman of the board of the MENATEP-St. Petersburg Bank subsidiary.
In September 2001-June 2002, he was deputy chairman of the Gazprom joint stock company.
In 2001-June 2002, he was chairman of the board of the MENATEP-St. Petersburg Bank.
In June 2002, he became adviser of the director general of the Svyazinvest joint stock company.
He is a candidate of economic sciences, doctor of administrative business, corresponding member of the international academy of computer science, member of the board of St. Petersburg Association of Commercial Banks.
Andrei Sharonov was born on February 11, 1964 in Ufa (the Bashkirian republic).
He graduated from the faculty of aviation instrument making, Ufa Aviation Institute in 1986; from the law faculty of the Russian Academy of State Service under the Russian president in - 1996. He is a candidate of sociology, defended his thesis in 1994 at the Institute of Social and Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 1986-1987, he worked as research engineer at the instrument-making chair of Ufa Aviation Institute.
In 1987-1989, he was secretary of the Komsomol committee of Ufa Aviation Institute.
In 1989-1991, he was people's deputy of the USSR; chairman of the subcommittee of the youth committee of the USSR's Supreme Council.
In 1990-1991, he was secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Lenin Communist Union of the Youth.
In 1991-1992, he was chairman of the state youth policy committee of the Russian Soviet Republic.
In 1992, he was plenipotentiary representative for youth affairs of the Russian government.
In 1992-1996, he was chairman of the committee for youth affairs and then the state committee of Russia for youth affairs.
In December 1996, he was appointed head of the consolidated department of the social policy of the Russian ministry of the economy.
In October 1997, he became deputy minister, and in August 1999 - the state secretary - deputy minister of the economy; he was in charge of social security and development (the ministry was abolished in May 2000 in view of the reorganisation in the executive structure of the federal executive bodies).
In August 2000, he was deputy economic development and trade minister. In particular, he was in charge of the natural monopolies reform, state purchases and the implementation of the federal targeted programme, Electronic Russia.
On June 16, 2003 he was appointed first deputy economic development and trade minister.
Mr. Sharonov is the author of 20 published research works and articles, and the holder of five invention certificates.
