Managing Board

Since 2011, Vladimir Kunitsky has served as Acron’s CEO (President).

Between 2006 and 2011, Vladimir Kunitsky was Acron’s senior vice president.

Kunitsky has been with the company since 1983. His previous offices include deputy head of AN operations, head of NPK operations, director general of Dorogobuzh Minudobreniya Production Association.

He began his career in the chemical industry at the Krasno-Uralsk Copper Smelting Plant, where he worked from 1971 to 1983.

Kunitsky was born in 1948. In 1971, he graduated from the Gorky Urals State University with a degree in chemistry.

Kunitsky was named Honoured Chemist of the Russian Federation and received the Merit in Labour Medal.

Oscar Valters was appointed Acron’s senior vice president in 2011.

Valters came to the company in 1995 and has held a number of key positions, including head of the financial management division of the Board of Directors, chairman of the Board of Directors, Board of Directors deputy chairman for finance, head of the finance department and vice president for finance.

Valters was born in 1963. He graduated in 1985 from the Moscow Automotive Institute with a degree in machinery and foundry operations technology. In 1992, he received a degree in foreign exchange transactions, international credit and clearing from the State Finance Academy.

In 2008, Alexander Popov was elected chairman of the Board of Directors and was named senior vice president in 2007.

Popov joined the company in 1996. He worked as head of the internal audit department under the Board of Directors, head of the audit and legal department and vice president for corporate construction and financial control.

In 2004, he was appointed director of the non-profit National Institute for Corporate Reform Foundation.

Popov was born in 1969. He graduated in 1993 with a degree in economics specialising in finance and credit from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Ivan Antonov was appointed Acron’s vice president for production and development in 2011.

From 2005 to 2011, Antonov was Acron’s CEO.

Antonov has been with the company since 1973. Between 2003 and 2005, he chaired Acron’s Board of Directors and was in charge of international markets.

Ivan Antonov was born in 1950. He graduated in 1973 from the Leningrad Lensoviet Technology Institute with a degree in industrial engineering.

The Russian Ministry of Economics awarded Antonov its certificate of honour. He also holds Order of Honour, the title of Honoured Chemist of the Russian Federation, the title of Miner of Russia Golden Badge and recently received the Anniversary Medal in commemoration of Veliky Novgorod’s 1,150th Birthday.

In 2006, Dmitry Golubkov was appointed vice president overseas.

Golubkov joined the company in 1996. He worked as an expert in the consulting centre and head of the foreign trade division.

Golubkov was born in 1972. He graduated in 1995 from the Moscow Aviation Institute with a degree in aircraft testing. In 2002, he received a degree in organisation management from the State University of Management.

In 2008, Alexei Milenkov was appointed Acron’s finance director.

He has been with the company since 2002, working as head of the information and research division.

Milenkov was born in 1973. In 1995, he graduated from Togliatti State University with a degree in automotive engineering. He is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).