Mikhail Yuryevich Smirnov - General Director of Federation Tower CJSC
An engineer by training, he graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering in 1984.
He has two MBA degrees. In 2003, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, and in 2008, an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the Higher School of Economics.
Key professional competencies: crisis management, development and implementation of effective management, financial and marketing strategies, development and implementation of operational and strategic measures to overcome external negative factors, building business processes according to the Western model.
- Since June 2013, he has been the General Director of Federation Tower CJSC
2009 – 2013 - General Director of Novaport LLC
Since 2008, he has been the First Vice President of AEON Corporation
2004 – 2008 First Vice-President of TPG "Moscow River Shipping Company"
2000 – 2004 - Head of the Main Mail Trunk Transportation Center of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation.
In the 1990s, he was a co-founder of a brokerage house accredited by the Russian Mercantile Exchange, and managed Inter-Auto and Astra Page companies.
Since 1984, he has been a design engineer, then head of the Logistics Department at the State Institute for the Design of Oxygen Industry Enterprises (Giproksorod).