General Director of Perekrestok Andrey Kalmykov leaves his post – Kommersant

General Director of the Perekrestok retail chain (part of X5 Retail Group) Andrey Kalmykov decided to leave his post. X5 Group Director of Strategy and Business Development Vladimir Salakhutdinov has been appointed acting CEO, reported press service groups.

From November 1998 to November 2008, Andrey Kalmykov was commercial director, general director and chairman of the board of directors of the Sunrise tour Group of Companies. From December 2008 to April 2010, he held the position of Assistant Minister of Transport of Russia. In April 2010, he moved to the post of Deputy General Director of Aeroflot. Since June 2014, he was the general director of the Dobrolet airline, and after its liquidation in 2015, he became the general director of the successor company Pobeda. He left his post in March 2022, and from the end of August 2022 became the general director of Perekrestok.

Vladimir Salakhutdinov is a graduate of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management from Northwestern University in Chicago. Started working at X5 in May 2019. Since 2014, he was deputy general director of Russian Post and was a member of the supervisory board of Pochta Bank. Prior to this, since 2002, he held senior positions at Western Union and American Express.

Erdni Kagaltynov