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BRAINFORCE Management Excellerator

With our proven BRAINFORCE Management Excellerator methodology, we support our valued clients in solving their biggest challenges.
The core of the methodology is a unique communication architecture that allows achieving best results in the shortest possible time.
Results, which are outstanding not only in terms of quality of content, but also in terms of feasibility, as all the key decision-makers or stake holders of the client’s organization worked out the actions and are fully committed to them.
The methodology is suitable to resolve all kinds of business challenges. Typical issues include

• business strategy,
• change management,
• growth generation,
• market entry,
• digitalisation, IoT
• mergers and cooperation,
• cost management,
• as well as all kinds of operational topics.

The BRAINFORCE Management Excellerator involves up to forty of the most important decision-making and know-how carriers of a company or organization. The knowledge, the experience and the skills of the people involved are bundled and linked in such a way in order to create completely new solutions.
Within a few days, the challenges addressed are conceptually resolved, along with concrete actions to be implemented immediately. Thanks to the commitment of all stakeholders, the developed plans lead to measurable results within weeks.

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Ivan Beldi, lic. oec. HSG
Member of the Executive Management
Executive Vice President Expert Solutions

BRAINFORCE, a leading international provider of interim management services and E.X.P.E.R.T.³ Solutions®, have presented the Gold Award to the Top-ranked Russian listed Company CEOs for the third time.

The winners among large companies in 2016 present mostly industrial sectors of economic activity in comparison to 2014 where the leading industries among the winners were retail and telecommunication. The quantity of companies which can be included to the ranking is increased in 2016, in comparison to 2015. Plenty of large companies could keep the leading positions.

At the same time the winners among medium-sized companies have changed significantly in comparison to 2015. No more than 10% of companies could keep the high rating. The considerable amount of CEOs from the last year ranking could not be included to the current due to the fact that CEOs had been changed in about of 25% of companies in 2015 and in 2016.

In 2016 the Winner in the category „Combined Performance Large Companies“ is Vladimir Kunitsky, CEO of the one of the world’s leading producers of mineral fertilisers “ Akron”. Winner in the category ‘Combined Performance Medium Companies’ is Alexandr Masko, CEO of “Murmansk sea trading port”.

Ratings made by BRAINFORCE AG in cooperation with the Swiss Research Institute Obermatt

The ranking methodology is based on transparent key performance indicators and calculations with global benchmark, and exclude subjective evaluations.
For the Rankings, three indexed company performance indicators were calculated on 2015 financial figures: Sales Growth, Profitability Growth and Investment/Total Shareholder Return Growth. By indexing the parameters, disturbances from external factors are eliminated. Furthermore, the performance of the Russian companies was compared with 30-70 companies from the same industry or similar business cycles worldwide. Only CEOs with company performance superior than at least 50% of their global peers were considered.

The Gold Winners 2016 by category are the following CEOs:

 

LARGE COMPANIES

Categorie Combined Performance ( Growth Sales + Profitability + Investment)

Vladimir Kunitsky, CEO, Akron – 97 %
Pavel Grachev, CEO, Polyus Zoloto – 96 %
Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman of the Board, Novatek – 95 %

Categorie Investment/ Total Shareholder Return Growth Performance

German Gref, President, Sberbank Rossii – 100 %
Yuri Slyusar, President, Ob’edinennaya Aviastroitelnaya Companiya – 100%
Sergey Tolstoguzov, CEO, RAO Energeticheskie Systemy Vostoka – 98%
Pavel Grachev, CEO, Polyus Zoloto – 98%
Mikhail Shamolin, President, AFK “Systema” – 94%

Categorie Sales Growth Performance

Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman of the Board, Novatek – 98 %
Alexander Grubman, CEO, Chelyabinsky Truboprokatny Zavod – 98%
Dmitry Markarov, CEO, SK Rosgosstrakh – 96 %
Vladimir Kunitsky, CEO, Akron – 96%

Categorie Profit Growth

Vladimir Kunitsky, CEO, Akron – 100 %
Andrey Guriev, CEO, PhosAgro – 100 %
Pavel Grachev, CEO, Polyus Zoloto – 96%
Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman of the Board, Novatek – 96 %
Oleg Korzhov , CEO, Mechel – 96%

 

MEDIUM COMPANIES

 

Categorie Combined Performance (Growth Sales + Profitability + Investment)

Alexander Masko, CEO, Murmansky morskoy torgovy port – 95%
Igor Khodyko, CEO, Elektrozink – 93%
Alexander Mordvinov, CEO, Mordovskaya Sbytovaya Companiya – 92%

Categorie Investment/ Total Shareholder Return Growth Performance

Alexander Masko, CEO, Murmansky morskoy torgovy port – 100%
Alexander Saveliev, Chairman, Bank Sankt Peterburg – 100%
Sultan Batov, CEO, Novorossiysky morskoy torgovy port – 100%
Alexey Scherbakov, CEO, Saratovenergo – 100%
Anatoly Yashanin, CEO, Kaluzhskaya sbytovaya kompaniya – 100%

Categorie Sales Growth Performance

Alexander Mordvinov, CEO, Mordovskaya Sbytovaya Companiya – 100%
Valery Nikolaev, CEO, Yaroslavsky shinny zavod – 98 %
Sergey Efanov, CEO, Belon – 96%

Categorie Profit Growth

Valery Nikolaev, CEO, Yaroslavsky shinny zavod – 100%
Sergey Kaminsky, CEO, Krasnoyarskaya GES – 96 %
Ildar Sultanov, CEO, Alrosa Nyurba – 96 %
Alexander Mikheev, CEO, Rostvertol – 96 %

German-South African Gunther Voet succeeds Lynda Gibson

The Senior Emerging Markets expert Gunther Voet has taken over the responsibility as the Country Manager of BRAINFORCE South Africa located in Johannesburg. He now succeeds Lynda Gibson who has been serving as Country manager to date, and who will now focus on coaching assignments.

Gunther Voet has a broad working experience particularly in Africa, South America and Asia. As a project manager, consultant and director he had served over 30 years for various organizations such as the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation and other public development and private management consulting companies. As an entrepreneur in South Africa, he established an industrial European-South African Business Park. Subsequently, he had joined BRAINFORCE in a business development role in 2014.

„We are proud to have with Gunther Voet a top senior Africa expert on board. Interim Management solutions in South Africa and the sub-Saharan Region are essential for the transformation of both local subsidiaries of international enterprises and local African companies with international activities.”, says Martin Schneider, CEO of the BRAINFORCE Group. According him Gunther Voet shall further expand the strong position of BRAINFORCE in this growing market.

Gunther Voet build up his experience in project management and crisis management in countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Liberia and South Africa. He also worked for 14 years in Chile, Peru, Afghanistan and Mongolia.